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You can see it’s an image.  It’s actually the first frame of the Flash animation exported as a JPG.  The problem?  The Flash animation contains a trio of hot spots.  The JPG?  Not so much.

They could have built an image map, or they could have removed the hotspot elements before export, or they could have even just made the whole image into a link to a store page.  Instead, they went the simple, thoughtless way and left the image unclickable, even though it would seem to indicate that you can click it to go places.

Hey, it’s cheap and easy, and the paychecks cash just as easy.

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I assume that an analsyt is supposed to just sit on his or her butt all day and let dev and project management have their ways with the project.  I’ve known a number of QA professionals who’ve thought that their jobs were, essentially, to call meetings and discuss/prioritize issues found by the customers instead of, I don’t know, understanding the software and technology and enforcing quality or testing.

Sadly, also in my experience, that unbelievable lightness of being tends to rise to management quickly.

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Ponder that as a koan.  Also, remember the following are not best practices:

• Naming variables or objects null or any other reserved word.
• Passing a string value of “null” when you meant to pass null.

Apparently, your Web site doesn’t know what YAHOO means this morning:

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Which leaves your Web site looking like this:

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A YAHOO is someone who promotes this error and its attendant template failure to production during business hours on a Friday, of all days, a day where workers are probably more apt to screw around and visit your site instead of doing paying work.

Eh, I guess it only bothers IE users, that small subgroup of Web users you can safely ignore.

• HR is much more understanding when you bite a developer.
• With rabies, it’s seven pains in the stomach and you’re cured.  With QA, seven pains in the stomach means your ulcer has made it through the week.
• Cooler fictional archetype, Cujo, versus the predominant–and by “predominant” I mean really the only one I can think of–fictional QA archetype Creed Bratton.
• Foaming at the mouth stains less than spitting coffee when project managers tell you that you actually have minus two days to test a project, so you’d better start spinning the globe backwards like Superman immediately.
• You can pass on rabies; you cannot teach QA.
• Normal people understand what rabies is and have sympathy for it.
• The career is mercifully shorter.

On the other hand, QA pays slightly better.

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Certainly that’s not a defect in an untested e-mail, hey?  Someone ask the project manager over there and find out the excuse well-considered reason why this occurred and how much money the magazine saved by not testing/fixing problems.

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Of course, it does not address the reason, which is the inherent self-righteous sloth these people exhibit, but that’s another matter entirely.

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Description:
*Maintenance of the environments for the SE system test systems. *Execution of testing processes prior to live deployment. *Interaction with other organizations to get sufficient support from the instructions for PM, Planning and Validation team and all others necessary throughout our portion of the testing life cycle. *Oversee and direct workload from US day shift to offshore resources *Defect management and problem resolution for testing errors

Those whacky jobs posted on Craigslist.  When you manage people, it’s like called a management sort of position in most places.  Perhaps this job poster doesn’t equate furriners as people.

If it’s the philosophy of the hiring firm to indeed have someone come in off of the street and manage the offshore team, perhaps the job heading should be more appropriately titled Scapegoat wanted! with a description Make slightly more than you would managing a gas station, but with more ulcers.