Fun job searching fact!

The City of Vancouver's employment opportunities page has a snide little joke going: every time you click on an advertised opportunity, it opens up a PDF with the helpful title of "dummy".

Every single time. This has been going on for at least three years, at least that's how long I've been haunting the City of Vancouver's job site. My downloads folder shows multiple items named
dummy.pdf
dummy-3.pdf
dummy-4.pdf
and so on.

Other places give their PDFs long strings of numbers and letters based on internal coding, or competition numbers, but the City of Vancouver wants to remind the unemployed or underemployed or unhappily employed: we have jobs you want, dummy. Good luck, dummy.

I've written an Official Email of Complaint. I wonder how long it will take to get a response. I'll keep you posted, if I remember.

UPDATE! MARCH 4! BECAUSE ABSOLUTELY NO ONE HAS BEEN ASKING!

Haven't heard anything back from the email I sent over a week ago, aside from an automated response saying that all inquiries are answered within 3-5 days. I also realized that the ICBC (BC's insurance corporation that everyone loves to hate) website also has "dummy" PDFs -- they seem to be using the same content management software as the City of Vancouver. Good for them. See, it's this amazing eye for detail that has really served me well in not only my work life, but also my personal life. Good for me!