Should I fire this guy because he bought his degree from the internet?

[SlowwHand]

Re: Should I fire this guy because he bought his degree from the internet?

Originally posted by Digital Zombie
A couple years ago I hired a guy named Thomas as a senior tech for a medium sized data center I run in California. He always seemed like a pretty competent worker. Thomas had great personal skills, came into work on-time, and pretty much completed projects better than any of the other techs in our facility. He seemed like a pretty intelligent guy, actually. I’ve even had dinner with his wife and young daughter on occasion. I generally consider him a friend.

Let me get this right.
You're considering firing a "friend" who does acceptable work...because you did no more homework on his application than he did on school.

Are you unafraid of looking like a total dumbass?

[Provost Harrison]

Relax Sloww, it's not real

[SlowwHand]

I'm trying to not bother real people. Unfortunately, I'm not having a lot of luck.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Now that is subtle advertising, putting the link for whatever you are trying to sell in the middle of your story. I am not falling for it however, and I suspect a banning is on the way

It's really stupid advertising as well, as the quote clearly shows the detrimental effects of buying and using said product. It might get you a job if you're sneaky, but you'll probably get fired when it's found out. Great product to sell, especially to a site like this, one in which the majority of posters already have degrees or are currently working on them.

[civman2000]

Originally posted by Mercator


You're expecting a reply from a spambot now then?

Actually, rather bizarrely, he did reply here: http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=150521
(though perhaps it's programmed to do that to the first reply containing the word "ad(vertisement)"...)

[Colonâ„¢]

I don't think this bot should be banned. His posts are more interesting than those from most human members.

[Mercator]

Also interesting to see how he already fired the guy in that thread before he even posted that story here.

[Frozzy]

Ming's into marketing. I wonder how he'd rate this sort of advertising?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I'd say highly

It is much better than the usual spambot

[Asher]

Why??

The guy's got busted and is being fired, why is that good??

[OneFootInTheGrave]

We will ship worldwide, except to Canada. We reserve the right to cancel shipments to locations we feel may have problems with delivery.

I wonder why

...

and why is it better, well its a more interesting story than " do you want a russian bride" ....not so dull, so a more sophisticated spambot, it will still be banned, but at least contributes a bit more interesting story... something like Jerry Jerry mentality

[Asher]

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
I wander why

It's illegal in Canada, as they are not accreditted universities.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

you Canadians got most of all that stuff straight

[Sandman]

Thomas is a strange name to choose for this scam - surely Tom would be better, if he's your 'friend'.

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Kalius
Ming's into marketing. I wonder how he'd rate this sort of advertising?

We'll get to know the moment this gets closed.