We don't know what S.K. had written in his application - except indirectly from his statements and circumstantically from the resume on his web site - but one of the things we do know is that he posted a private email message in a public forum. I'd count that as even more rude than the somewhat impolite (and self-aggrandizing?) brush-off by M.M.

A simple web site is not a negative mark in my eyes - quite the opposite, in fact. But have you read the bloody resume, in particular the 'ACHIEVEMENTS IN VISUAL FOXPRO / CRYSTAL REPORTS PROGRAMMING'? When you cut through the inflated babble then there isn't a whole lot left. This is not a problem in itself but the outlook/personality of somebody who regards dropping an OCX on a form as an achievement worth crowing about is. "Regularly used the VFP SQL commands to generate queried selections of data.", my a**. It clearly shows that he comes from marketing, and it also hints at why he went away from there to look for greener pastures.