How about "Warning: Plagurism punishable by death"?


At 06:55 AM 12/2/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Here's a suggestion for the future.  Put a copyright notice on your
>resume, something like
>
>	Copyright (C) 2000 John Q. Public.  All rights reserved.  No
>		duplication or distribution permitted without the author's
>		permission.
>
>That way if they do give it to someone without your permission, you
>can hold the flame of copyright law to their feet to get them to back
>off.
>
>I'm not sure whether this would work, but it may be worth a try.  Any
>feedback?
>
>Eric
>
>On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:38:55AM -0600, John J. Trammell wrote:
>> Hello LUGgers:
>> 
>> I'm a newbie in the job search arena, and could use some advice
>> on how to avoid a certain situation in the future.
>> 
>> Say, hypothetically speaking, that you have a friend that just
>> got a new job at company Foo via job-finding company Quux (rhymes
>> with "sucks", as in "rat bastard fuckers die die die") Jobfinders
>> Inc.
>> 
>> This friend encourages you to apply for another position that's
>> open at Foo; you do this, and in addition you ask the boys at Quux
>> to see if they can locate some position for you.
>> 
>> You find yourself fucked, because what does Quux do but send your
>> resume off to Foo?  Now Foo wants to hire you, but Quux says that
>> Foo owes them some sort of finder's fee, even though you have a
>> contact of your own at Foo, and really didn't get anything from
>> Quux.  Foo won't hire you because this fee is exorbitant, and
>> why the hell should Quux get dime one anyhow?
>> 
>> So how do other people manage this situation?  My thought is that
>> I should have made some agreement with Quux from the beginning that
>> they had to have my permission to send my resume to Foo; once this
>> was done, Foo was "theirs" and if they found a job there, they were
>> entitled to the fee.  This would leave me free to search on my own
>> at Bar and Baz, Inc.
>> 
>> Any other ways out of this?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> J
>> 
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