jobs?

[zscoundrel]

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
> 
> 

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