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To: Liz

I got approached by this company last winter. They were DESPERATE for competent people. . .and weren’t getting any.

They offered me, a 30-year-veteran of IT and Systems Engineering, a lordly 16.50/hour. . . and said that was the absolute highest they could go, but they REALLY needed senior IT folks.

One of the few times I laughed at a recruiter as I stood up and walked out. .


4 posted on 10/09/2014 6:22:48 AM PDT by Salgak (Peace through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: Salgak

Thanks for the realtime input.


5 posted on 10/09/2014 6:30:11 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: Salgak

16.50/hour !!

And they want 15 an hour to flip burgers at Mickey D’s!
And they get a free meal each shift!


8 posted on 10/09/2014 7:02:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Salgak
I got approached by this company last winter. They were DESPERATE for competent people. . .and weren’t getting any.

They offered me, a 30-year-veteran of IT and Systems Engineering, a lordly 16.50/hour. . . and said that was the absolute highest they could go, but they REALLY needed senior IT folks.

You should run away from EPIC even if they offer $300/hr. EPIC is classic awful '90s client server style. There's no fixing it. I inspected some installations and found them to be "User-hostile" to the max. My wife has spent about 200 hours learning how to use it properly (mostly uncompensated).

Why did the hospital buy it? We speculate management received word the unions would not conduct an EPIC protest...but heaven help them if they bought anything else...

11 posted on 10/09/2014 8:01:12 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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