Message-ID: <3E6F69E8.8050009@kc.rr.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:10:02 -0600 From: zscoundrel <zscoundrel@kc.rr.com> Subject: Re: jobs?
I have heard that drivel before. Apparently it is not MY communication
skills that are the problem.
Please reread my post, in the part you edited out, I pointed out that
this was a SHORT TERM opportunity, only 3 to 4 months. THEY insisted on
the short term nature of the job, so the 'bungie worker' argument really
doesn't hold water in this case, now does it???
Although that "Might" be a valid concern in some situations, you
probably are not terribly concerned about the process of hiring people
and then dumping them off at the first hint of a down turn.
Oh well, this rant has drifted well away from the topic of Linux jobs,
and I know that there will be more people that will try to convince me
that unethical behavior is really justified because of some particular
far out scenario, so I am going to drop it here. Let's take it off-line
if you wish to discuss it further.
L. Adrian Griffis wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, zscoundrel wrote:
>
>>The thing I find most amazing is the lack of vision in the business
>>world. I applied for a $12.00 hour job with an I/T firm that was using
>>Linux. I was willing to take a big pay cut to get into someplace that
>>was running Linux. They passed me over because they felt the job was
>>'below me'. (I had been making almost $50k before the lay-off)
>
>
> We do it because when the economy gets better, you would have to be
> an idiot not to move onto a better paying job. If you are not
> an idiot, we won't be able to keep you long, and if you are, we
> really don't want you anyway. If we were hiring for something short
> term, like the Y2K upgrade work was, getting someone really good at
> a really low price would be fine, but if we are trying to build up
> a really good team, it just doesn't make sense (and just doesn't feel
> right in any case) to pay anyone a whole lot less than they are worth.
>
> Adrian
>
>
-- A marble traveling at 22,000 miles per hour would strike with as much force as a 400-pound safe traveling at just 60 miles per hour.