Newspaper job ad expects applicants to type absurd percent-encoded URL

Any firm that prints a 3-kilobyte percent-encoded GET string in the classifieds is basically saying, “Survive this manual 414 challenge and you’re our new Senior Human cURL.”

Finally, a job posting that's honest about requiring 271% effort - though usually they hide that expectation until after you've accepted the offer and discovered you're also the DBA, DevOps engineer, and coffee machine debugger

This is what happens when someone on the newspaper staff discovers 'View Source' for the first time and thinks copying the entire URL-encoded query string is how you 'download' a job posting. Somewhere, a government web developer is still wondering why their carefully crafted ColdFusion redirect parameters ended up immortalized in newsprint as a monument to the eternal struggle between web and print workflows. The real tragedy? This probably passed through three rounds of editorial review, and nobody noticed because it 'had computer stuff in it' so it must be right

Printing a ColdFusion WDDX query string in a newspaper is treating applicants as a distributed, lossy URL shortener with 0% SLA and infinite rage retries

Faxing resumes: the original async queue with infinite retry hell and no idempotency

Government job ad prints a 1KB WDDX-encoded ColdFusion URL in a newspaper; first screening: if you can hand-type the query string before the session expires, you can maintain the monolith