Eavesdropping on job listings boards and mailing lists can be a real hoot. You would not believe the things recruiters put in these crucial vehicles by which we gain our first impression of a prospective employer. By far, the most common gaffe is the 'temporal incongruity' - requiring more years of experience than is possible. Like asking for 15 years experience developing in Ruby.

Here are the best ones we've seen, presented for your reading pleasure. Any typographical errors are transcribed exactly as found. Formatting and emphasis mine.

As always, feel free to forward goodies that you've seen in your area - just leave a comment or send it to us via the contact page.

A word to the wise: Hang with the right crowd, and learn to imbibe - or let your career suffer.

If a recent study by the Reason Foundation is accurate, you need to swill down the booze in order to score major points with the good 'ol boys.

Drinkers earn 10 percent to 14 percent more at their jobs than nondrinkers, economists Bethany Peters and Edward Stringham found.

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed criminal complaints Wednesday against Patricia Dunn, former Hewlett Packard board chairwoman, and four others on charges related to HP's media leak probe.

During my long career in tech, HP has been used as a shining example of a company with "progressive" management.

I'm puzzled as to how "progressive" management could engage in such reprehensible behavior.

Did they do it out of a desire to prevent injury to the company and protect the shareholders from financial loss?

This post on minimsft.blogspot.com points out the two-tiered compensation scheme @ Microsoft.

If minimsft's blog is accurate, Microsoft has become a place where a select few collect what can only be described as incredibly generous compensation, despite what some perceive as poor performance

Here's a cheery news item: 10,500 soon-to-be-victims of farked management at Intel.

The article doesn't describe the number of farked managers who will share in the pain. I've seen mention of about 1,000 farked managers laid off in July.

Anyone out there know the percentage or actual number of managers who will be axed in this layoff? Please leave a comment if so.