No Linux for Online Job Testing

lerninlinux at comcast.net lerninlinux at comcast.net
Wed Sep 5 23:58:53 CDT 2007


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com>
> So I'm between jobs and I get a call from a staffing
> agency about a tech support helpdesk job.  It sounds
> all right, pays reasonably well and it is on the
> Kansas side so the taxes are easy.  It also turns out
> that the guy who will decide whether or not I get
> hired is an old acquaintance of mine from college who
> remembers me as really tall and a good computer guy.
> 
> The staffing agency informs me that in order to make
> sure I get the job I'm going to have to take some
> basic tests, a "phone etiquette" test a stunned badger
> could pass, and a 10-key typing test.  They send me
> the information and I get on the testing website.
> 
> Then it turns out that the testing website, for some
> reason, uses some sort of proprietary Windows web
> software to do all its testing.  IE isn't the problem
> because FireFox on Windows is supported.  Since I went
> all-Linux a few months ago, I didn't have any way to
> take the test myself on any of my own computers.  I
> finally had to convince my wife to stop playing
> Morrowind for an hour (not an easy task) so I could
> use her Windows PC.
> 
> I suppose the thing I find irritating about this is
> that industry leaders (excepting Microsoft, of course)
> use platform independent testing software.  Cisco in
> particular used testing software on its Academy
> website which worked great for me in Firefox on Debian
> Linux.  Is it really that much more cost-effective to
> use Windows-dependent testing software on a website?
> 


Ask THEM for an application and tell them your apply for a position to make their testing platform independent.

If you have access to one, I would also want to try their software/site, on a Mac.
Too many people don't get why standards, are !


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