Job Posting

[Leo J Mauler]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:27:06 -0600 "Paul Taylor" <paul at kcnetcare.com>
writes:
> I didn't say script monkeys make $80,000 a year, at least 
> I don't personally know any. I do know the job postings 
> are for $40,000 [low end] to $60,000 [high end] for the 
> sysadmin or script monkeys.  I'm not a unix / coding guru 
> so I've never applied.
> 
> Some guy in my peer group was making $80,000 a year, 
> quit his job and moved to Atlanta (home town) to work for 
> Scientific Atlanta. They paid him a large bonus up front and 
> gave him a nice raise. 5 weeks later they fired him because 
> "he didn't sell aggressively". They failed to mention his job 
> entailed sales in the beginning and he offered to "adapt" 
> but the manager didn't want to give him another chance. 
> That's his side of the story, who knows. Meanwhile, he 
> tried to get his old job back but they already hired 
> someone in his spot.
> 
> I guess the moral of the story is grass is NOT greener on 
> the other side.

I had a friend like that.  Ray finished his degree at the University of
Kansas in 1995, and was hired by a California company (partly based on
his "portfolio" of existing software applications, such as the text
editor "Brief") in late1996.  They paid an upfront bonus and his
relocation expenses.

Then about three years later in 2000 they decided to change their
business model to what would now be known as the "SCO Business Model":
they fired all their programmers and concentrated on selling their
existing products and licensing their patent portfolio.  

He managed to find another programmer job for a few more years, but as of
Xmas 2003 he had been on unemployment for four months thanks to another
attempt to improve a company by firing all the support staff.

> He's the only person I personally know who went to 
> another company and it didn't work out for the better 
> (at least yet).
> 
> Paul

[despite the urgent need for a political rant on this message, no
political rants have been included.]

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