12 frogs

Whenever I see the staring red eye of my voicemail light I think, “if you really loved me, you’d send me email.” I had to deal with the light when I went in to the office today. The message I heard contained possibly the longest and most clueless stringing together of buzzwords ever in one almost-sentence: “web development, interaction design, css, ajax, flex, lots of web 2 technologies, user experience, and information architecture.”

Note to companies looking to hire people who “get” the web: clueless recruiters are the wrong approach. They sound bad, and that makes your company sound bad.

Why would anyone who gets it want to go work for a company that so clearly doesn’t get it they can’t even find a headhunter who sounds even an eensy weensy bit convincing on voicemail that they get it? A stratospheric level of cluelessness isn’t a rewarding challenge to take on, it’s annoying. If you are exposed to it long enough, it will suck the will to think and live right out of you.