sounds like the manpower professional crowd I was with at the time. Same location. I have loads of "war stories" about that time. None suitable for public archiving on a mailing list. Short form: I will NEVER work even _near_ Manpower again. I was totally soured on placement firms thanks to that experience for nearly 10 years. CF is no longer screwing up HP directly (and not CA either!) so maybe they're improving.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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HP moved to an outsourced agency after you worked there? The guy I was
talking to at the time led me to believe it was a 3<sup>rd</sup> party company
staffing at HP’s tower near Perimeter. (Of course HP has since sold that.)</span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 23, 2010
12:02 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] interesting
salary data posted by Red Hat</div></div></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Must have been phone
support for windows home users. <br>
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When I was first tier HPUX/Solaris support at HP in 2001 we got around $28/hr
(which was _really_ good for the several bozos in the team who didn't know how
to change a password much less build and mount a raid array). Night shift got a
bit more. That sucked for first shift who had to clean up after 3rd shift
screw-ups.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Lightner, Jeff <<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com" target="_blank">jlightner@water.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I got that $12/hr figure from a head hunter back in 2002 who was asking<br>
me to apply for a night job doing phone support for HP. When I replied<br>
that he couldn't get anyone good for even twice that for a day job he<br>
responded that he does get people all the time. To me that explained<br>
why HP phone support first level was so clueless at the time. I'm sure<br>
by now they've raised it to $12.25 or so...</span></font></p>
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