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Ohhhhhhh thank you Boing Boing. Thank you thank you thank you. You have given me sweet, sweet justification for looking down upon those pathetic little wastrels using–gasp–Hotmail:
A guy, who works in the department of a Human Resources consultancy company, says they made a selection process in which, among other things, they asked for a person with ample experience in using the internet (navigation, searches, formats…).
They received 50 candidacies, from which 30 came from Hotmail-directions, all of them erased as they entered.
The reason: You can’t pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time.
The lingering pangs of guilt from all those times I saw a @hotmail.com address and nearly threw up in my mouth…gone! Always comforting to have respected nerd blogs giving you license to practice l33t elitism.
Hotmail users deemed too dumb for employment at firm
