There seem to be a lot of 'Health Billing' projects in trouble in NY. All of them seem to be using a framework [too]. They've been going on for years and they will probably go on forever.

A recruiter confided that weak management and politics had been preventing these outfits from getting good engineers in there to fix the project.

It looks like this fellow is size queen anyway :-). Bragging about Millions of lines of code. Must be a s-l-o-w application. Then, he says you have a high opinion of yourself.

The guy sounds like a hack. The job sounds like a low paying, piece of feces sweat shop. Strict School of Cattle-Prod Management:-)

You should write back: Bs Him - Play em - Tell him you want to be just like him! Tell him you are ready to sell your sister so you can move up there and learn from him. Tell him you'll work for 7$/Hr just to be his apprentice:-) Play-em then drop him (if you have time!).

Better to know that you don't want this job, right off the bat, than waste more time with interviews and a test of your susceptibility to being cowed by a jerk:-)

Bill's analytical assessment of the prospects response is stranger than fiction:-). It does provide, however, a much needed moment of levity.

>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!