• lugal@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    My guess is it’s programmed to reject 4/20 anywhere it finds it and the programmer didn’t take into account that some values can just happen to be 4/20.

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      11 months ago

      Although I have to ask- who would put any weed references on a resume that wasn’t tailored for, say, a weed dispensary job?

      • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        I interviewed a guy whose dev career involved a (pretty good) front-end for a grow operation. I believe the ownership at that company may have opted against hiring because of that. I’ll admit, I wasn’t wowed by his skills enough to go to bat for him.

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        11 months ago

        Hmm, might be a list of no go words they complied from somewhere. You’re right, it’s very unlikely that someone actively excluded 420 but maybe they downloaded a list of “bad words”.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Sounds plausible. Could just be extremely lazy. “What about dates with 4/20” “Oh come on, how often will that legitimately occur”