umofomia's Journal: Exposed

I recently posted a comment in reponse to this post urging people not to hire ex-dotcommers, exposing the fact that this guy took an actual resume completely out of context in order to prove his tenuous point. Unfortunately it didn't look like many people saw my comment.

However, now that he has been exposed, it looks like this guy just reworded the example on this page so that no one else will notice, yet he still claims it's from the actual resume.

Anyway, when I noticed the change, I quickly loaded up the original version from Google's cache before it was lost for good (I did try the Internet Archive first, but to no avail). This was the original version (I had to change the spacing a bit to make it appear properly in this journal entry):

SANJAY R WORTHLESS
RESUME

SKILLS: C++, VB, Java, Perl , ATL/WTL, COM, Win32, MFC, XML, HTML, DHTML, Javascript, WAP, WML, ODBC, ADO, NT, Solaris, Linux, AIX, OS/390, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

FOUNDER, CTO "BUY FLOWERS CHEAP DIRECT.COM"
MAY 2001-PRESENT
Initial design of web-based ordering and fulfillment systems.

Chief Architect, uSmartyPants
JULY-2000 - JAN-2001
Responsible for hardware and software design and operation of information systems

Project Manager, BuyStuff4Less.com
October 1999--June 2000
Responsible for all content systems, content management, product databases, and related processes

(For your reference, here's the actual resume that was taken out of context... notice the exact same dates, phrasing, and order of listed skills)

Now look at the current version:

SANJAY R WORTHLESS
RESUME

TECHICAL SKILLS: C#, Pascal, AppleSoft, VB, Perl, PerlScript, Php, ATL/WTL/XSL/XML, COM, Win32, Win32S, MFC, HTML/DynamicHTML, VBScript/ECMAScript, WAP/SMS, WML, ODBC, ADO, Java, NT, Ultrix, MINIX, Linux, Oracle, MySQL, C++

FOUNDER, CTO "BUY FLOWERS CHEAP DIRECT.COM"
MAY 2001-PRESENT
Designed fulfillment system and software for processing customer orders.

Chief Architect, uSmartyPants
JULY-2000 - JAN-2001
Designed hardware and software for Management Information System and inventory control

Project Manager, BuyStuff4MuchLess.com
October 1999--May 2000
Managed Content and related software system.

It's obvious this guy is still trying to use the same resume, since the position and dates are still mostly the same, but notice how he unabashedly changes the job descriptions and the contents and order of the listed skills so that no one else would be able expose him again.

I don't have anything against this guy... some of the things he says do sound plausible. In fact, I'm sure that many employers would throw away resumes of the type he descibed. My main gripe is that he's trying to pass off something he concocted as an actual resume in order substantiate his claims (which is even worse then what he did before, which was taking an actual resume out of context).

Anyway, the reason I'm writing this is because I have a feeling that he'll post this again on Slashdot (he's posted it before in the past), and I just want this incident recorded so he won't dupe others.