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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

They say while using gmail.

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 hours ago

It's tagged "Inbox", it looks like this is the recruiter's POV.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 40 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Gmail is functional at what it sets out to do, which is send and receive email.

The sender is not expressing privacy concerns, they’re expressing functionality / utility concerns.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Fair enough, still seems silly as hell to me. Windows is perfectly functional for corporate, and even software development use as long as the team managing the image and standard settings at your workplace is competent.

Yeah, being able to customize everything to meet your preferred workflow etc with Linux is preferable.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Gmail is functional at what it sets out to do

it is not. it can't even do such simple thing as sorting the inbox by the sender's name. it may seem functional to people who never used real mail client and were brainwashed into accepting this as the only available ui, but it is really not.

And preferring yet another proprietary OS.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I still use gmail as my spam catcher/throwaway account

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Odd to use it as part of job hunting though, which is the context in this image.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago

I use it at my "catch other people's emails" account, tho so far I haven't been quick enough on the draw to do cool stuff like slurping account creation tokens, goodie delivieries or stuff like that.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Sure, but kind of silly for someone who would take a stand against MS to the point of refusing a job to be happy with Google.

Then again, they also expressed they'd be happy with Apple/Mac