Humping the American Dream

The NSA rolled their recruiters and propaganda into town yesterday to recruit some poor saps for some alleged positions. I was going to initially take a long lunch to visit these people, and see if there was anything that promised a better outlook than “we’ll contact you if anything pops up”. Luckily I had a friend going to it in the morning hours, and he called me up saying that there were a load of people there.

He continued to talk about the troubles with parking and the lines which one must wait in to get in to speak with the representatives. Of course hearing about this late prevented me from actually pre-registering as some people managed to do. So I asked my friend to call me when he got done and tell me if it was worth while going to the thing or if it was just a waste of time.

I receive a call about two hours later, and I try to get a sense of what these people were really doing here. My friend sounded optimistic, and gave a favorable outlook, he mentioned how he spoke with several people positively and left a few resumes with the representatives. Of course I wanted to get down to brass tax – should I go to it, or would I save myself time by simply submitting a resume online? He said it was worth going, so I left work about an hour early to attend the event.

Luckily, I had no problem finding a parking spot; furthermore the once ominous lines had dwindled so I could simply stroll in the front doors. After a quick registration and quick introduction speech I got to speak to a representative for a few minutes. Prior to me getting to speak to this rep there was some jag-off who was talking about how he took a single class in C++, and he now is equipped with everything he needs to know to carry out a developers position.

Ok, granted he could be a natural at it – real bright guy that would put a lot of people to shame, but then again this could have been yahoo who learned how to print <

Personally – it was a waste of time. The representative could have cared less about my questions and they were doing nothing more than collecting resumes at that point. The resumes were going to be boxed up and scanned by some poor schmuck so hiring managers could simply pick off peoples resumes who were fortunate enough to use the same key words these people were looking for.

Thanks for coming!