Do companies create complicated on-line application processes to weed out people who just can't be buggered to jump through all the hoops?

I should not have to list 5 references (which can't include friends, colleagues, or family) to send you my resume. I mean, what do you want, the name and number of my 4th grade teacher?

and you don't want her number, she was a hateful person.

That, and to streamline things if they have an incompetent HR department. Let a computer do most of the work.

@oimoi: sic transit gloria mamacita

I have very complex declensions to my character.

@PT: all of those things would be easier than finding 5 people i know, but not in a friendly or business-type way.

as best i can tell, i can use cops who've pulled me over and old teacher who i'm not friends with. if i was 40 i'd just have the cops.

Aw, that sounds sweet.

At the moment I find hackneyed sweet, due to hormones making me in love in universum.

It does seem rather..fucking difficult, doesn't it? Since I already went through the trouble to create a resume and cover letter, why are you asking me to repeat all that information?

@oimoi: might want to be careful with those amorous feelings. i hear that's what happened in pompeii.

@cocktails: who can provide accurate references besides friends, colleagues or family? Track down your nemesis?

It was less artistic and more visceral when they just called it The Octagon.