Just when I thought it could not get any stranger, first thing this morning I get a phone call on my direct line (which I will have to look into) from an obviously new "Web Design/Dev" firm's owner asking me "if I knew where to hire any employees and if any of my staff would be interested in going to work for him." Obviously intrigued, I decided to continue with the conversation and responded: "I don't know, I would have to ask, what are you looking for?" to which he replied "well I have 12 websites to build and need designs and searches done, you see I am specializing in Real Estate websites and I have enough work to employ someone for two years!"
To Clarify, I had to be certain I understood what he was looking for.
"So you are looking for someone to design and build 12 websites, do the html and styling, aggregate mls data and program their searches" ... response "exactly, would you look through Whatcom Community College or WWU?"
So, being that by then I was at work and again fully reminded how the many years of study and experience in Web Design and Development can be totally minimalized by even one of my competitors, I told him I would pass the word around.