[ale] interesting salary data posted by Red Hat

Thu Dec 23 13:22:07 EST 2010

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.

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

>  I’m pretty sure it was for HP-UX.   Maybe 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 3rd party company staffing at HP’s tower near
> Perimeter.    (Of course HP has since sold that.)
>
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:02 PM
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> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] interesting salary data posted by Red Hat
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>
> Must have been phone support for windows home users.
>
> 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.
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com>
> wrote:
>
> I got that $12/hr figure from a head hunter back in 2002 who was asking
> me to apply for a night job doing phone support for HP.   When I replied
> that he couldn't get anyone good for even twice that for a day job he
> responded that he does get people all the time.  To me that explained
> why HP phone support first level was so clueless at the time.  I'm sure
> by now they've raised it to $12.25 or so...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Jerald Sheets
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 11:01 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] interesting salary data posted by Red Hat
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> On Dec 22, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
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> > 90k/year in the US?
> >
> > I'm starting to think $12/hour and free coffee isn't enough any
> more...
> >
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>
> Now we know why Jeff is so grumpy!  :)
>
> passed that a long time ago...
>
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