From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com [68.99.120.47]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AB61EF515 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:35:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dukecmimpo03.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.137]) by dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.8.01.05.06 201-2260-151-112-20120208) with ESMTP id <20130411073534.BATW932.dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com@dukecmimpo03.coxmail.com> for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:35:34 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.103] ([70.166.17.50]) by dukecmimpo03.coxmail.com with bizsmtp id NXba1l00A14oyBJ01XbaJC; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:35:34 -0400 Message-ID: <516667C5.8040004@baechler.net> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:35:33 -0700 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: References: <516520C3.4070507@baechler.net> <51657629.4000505@math.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <51657629.4000505@math.wisc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:35:40 -0000 Actually, I was talking about how you brought your own laptop with you with a server already running on it so you could prove that you knew what you were doing. I don't remember the exact details, but you posted on a list (acb-l?) a while ago about how you got hired once they could access the server running on your laptop and could see that you were able to set up servers and knew how to make computers work. On 4/10/2013 7:24 AM, John G. Heim wrote: > > > Oh, yeah, I believe you are talking about the time I went to a job interview > and I already had like 20 years of experience in systems administration and > programming. All this was on my resume, of course, but when the woman who > was going to interview me saw that I am blind, she flatly refused to > interview me at first. She wouldn't believe a blind person can use a > computer. I had to convince her that the stuff on my resume was real. She > went ahead with the interview but she clearly didn't believe a word I was > saying. I sure wish I had had the presence of mind to let her send me away. > Then I could have sued her dumb a**.