Hi Steve,

(chuckling knowingly and shaking head at the memories of similar experiences)

First of all, they don't pay enough for their physical location (Floral Park is just east of NYC on Long Island, and from personal experience that's an expensive place to live).
Second, anybody who would respond like this person did isn't interested in a VFP *professional* as much as they're interested in someone they can control.
Third, I wonder if his "one million lines of code" counted comments and physical lines rather than actual executable code lines.
Fourth, if his system contains over 1MM lines of code, that's some *UGLY* code and has got to be a maintenance NIGHTMARE -- and you don't want to do that anyway.

Get the picture? They call places like this "death camps"...because that's what happens to your career and your personal life when you work there.

You can do a lot better, Steve -- don't give it a second thought. Blow this control freak jerk off and let him hire the $20/hour cowering, desperate student that he really wants. You deserve better.


>Hello Fellow VFPers!
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>You won't believe the rude and unprofessional response I received from a job I applied for that was listed on this web site under the Jobs Section.
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>Here is the job I applied for listed under the job section on this web site:
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>Application Developer November 10, 2003 19:07
>Jzanus, LTD.
>Floral Park, New York, United States [Expires on January 19, 2004]
>We are looking for an Application Developer to work with our small IT development staff on a brand new Medical Billing and Collections application, constructed primarily using Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and the Mere Mortals framework. This new application will replace all of the existing departmental applications, which use FoxPro 2.6a for DOS, with one central collections and billing application. The new developer will work entirely on new application development, not on DOS maintenance or code co...
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>Here is the RUDE response I got from Michael Murphy at Jzanus, LTD. after submitting my cover letter and resume to the job description above:
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>*** Michael Murphy, Jzanus LTD. START OF REPLY: ***
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>We are not interest in contract programmers. We need full-time, on-site (here in NYC) employees ONLY.
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>You say that learned Visual FoxPro in one DAY ??
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>HA ! I have worked on programs in VFP of over 1MILLION lines of code. 20K lines is a joke.
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>You have an extremely high opinion of yourself.
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>Go away.
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>*** END OF REPLY from Michael Murphy, Jzanus LTD. ***
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>How very rude and unprofessional. I would say it would be a huge mistake for someone to apply for a job and to work for this company. I would remove their posting from this web site if I were you!
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>Good luck Jzanus LTD.!
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>Can you believe it? Talk about totally unprofessional and ignoramous behavior! The worst reply I had ever gotten in my more than twenty years in the computer job world. Some people really amaze me!