roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/01/86)
I got a phone call from our personnel office yesterday wanting to
know why I had placed an ad for a position available. After a bit of
confusion, it would seem that there was an ad placed on net.jobs from
somebody here announcing a position available. I certainly didn't place
it, and nobody else admits to placing it either. Furthermore, I read
net.jobs and never saw the article.
So one of several things happened, all of which seem equally
unlikely. Maybe some site resent some old news (and I mean old; I think
the last ad we placed on net.jobs was about 1-1/2 years ago). Maybe
somebody forged an article (for what reason, I can't imagine). Perhaps
some bug squashed the top of a net.jobs article onto the signature part of
a real article from here (*very* farfetched)? I had posted an article to
net.jobs earlier this week complaining about the Nicaragua articles on that
group. I supposed it's just barely possible that some people were confused
by that and figured we had a position open, but from talking to one person
who responded, I don't think that's the case.
In any event, PHRI does not currently have any positions open for
programmers. If you saw an article on net.jobs that indicated otherwise, I
would greatly appreciate getting a copy of that article. If there was
anything that we did unknowingly to suggest that we did, please accept my
apologies for any inconvenience and confusion.
--
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016