More evil than the world can bear

What happens if you give The Enemy* access to the internet?

On-line application forms.

To be more precise: on-line application forms which don't fully work.

This morning I applied to a company for whom I have a lot of respect. A company which should know better.

The job, which they were advertising on-line, is very appropriate for me. In fact, another company already approached me about a very similar role having read my details in LinkedIn.

But this high-technology company, which should know better, waited for me to find their advert and then only gave me the option of filling out their form. On-line.

Part of the form included giving details of my degree and alma mater.

There was a long pull-down list of colleges and universities, including the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, the Beijing Dance Academy and Beaver University where I guess they study beavers.

But not my university - with a good reputation and established early in the last century - where the study of beavers was a purely optional, private matter.

These fields are mandatory. You can't submit an application without completing these fields and there was no "Other" option.

I found an email address on their page. But they sent an automatic reply: "Thank you for contacting jobs@thecompanywhoshouldknowbetter.com. Please use our online application form".

Then I found an email address to technical support so I emailed them.

I guess I will have to be patient in waiting for their reply.

*H.R.