An Appropriate Response

On the whole, I love Craig's List. Honestly, where else can you shop for a car, golf clubs, a new job, an apartment and a girlfriend all at once? The thing is, you can't go in expecting to be getting great stuff all the time, because if it was a great item, it wouldn't be listed in the "Free" section. People just want this stuff out of their house (I've sold stuff on Craig's List and that's exactly what I was thinking). You need to think of it as more like the world's largest yard sale. This mentality should also apply to the job section, which I find to be especially frustrating. A lot of them turn out to be internships, only you don't realise it until you get halfway through. Even more of them are supposed to be real jobs, but offer almost no money in relation to the amount of work they want you to do. This is where the yard sale mentality needs to kick in. Bigger companies with better jobs are on sites like Monster and Media Bistro.

This frustration with the job section is just another place to show how I'm wired differently from other people. When I see job posts like this I simply think "That's not enough money," close the link and keep searching. But, the new trend on Craig's List is to create a new post, slamming the person who posted the job. These posts are often in all capital letters, just in case you were wondering if the re-poster was mad. I often imagine them yelling at the computer screen as they are typing it out (otherwise, why use capitals?). Also, as is often the case, spelling and grammar are the first casualties of anger. Choose and chose are often mixed up and you don't even want to get me started on usage of they're vs their. This is especially ironic because I'm usually looking in the writing job section so you would think these people, more than any other, would be on top of this kind of thing. Also, if you're only using Craig's List to find a job, then you're not being very smart about your search. Still, Craig, if you would just make an internship section of your web page a lot of this could be avoided.

-Ding, Dong the Smoltz experiment is dead. Good thing, too. I couldn't take much more of him trying to rehab an injury while simultaneously killing the hopes for an AL East Division crown. Really, enjoy the NESN booth, John. Too bad the only option we have to replace him with is 38 year-old Paul Byrd. Not giving up Bucholz for Halladay is looking worse and worse by the day.