[ale] OT: Linux jobs

[Todor Fassl]

Huh, I wonder why they want to hire an immigrant so badly. [I was born 
in the USA, btw. Todor is the Eastern European version of Theodore.]

The last 3 job openings my department had we filled with candidates 
considerably less qualified than we'd have liked. But I work for a state 
university and the pay scale sucks. The very last position we filled had 
what I thought were totally unrealistic qualifications. They wanted 
someone who could manage a VMware cluster, a HPC cluster, and help the 
office staff with their Excel spreadsheets. I told the chair of the 
search committee that anybody with those qualifications who'd be willing 
to work for what we pay must have something wrong with him. His response 
took me a little by surprise, "Well, what's wrong with you?" I had to 
point out that I am blind, I don't know if it just slipped his mind or 
what. It is nice when that happens. My immediate supervisor, who had 
been my boss for about 10 years, once handed me a printout saying 
something like, "Wow, look at this, you won't believe it." Anyway, 
somebody did apply for the job who had all the qualifications and was 
willing to accept the pay we were offering. And he really does knowall 
that stuff. He just turned out being such a bozo personally that they've 
given him his notice.

When I got hired, they asked the same thing of me. With all your 
qualifications, why are you willing to take this job. I was lucky I put 
it tactfully enough. I said, "As a blind person, I realize my options 
are limited. No matter how good I am, a lot of people just can't get 
past that." Just like in the video below, if you don't want to hire a 
disabled person, there are ways.



On 04/29/2016 05:20 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:14:29 -0400
> Karenga Smith <ksmith at kpinetworx.com> wrote:
>
>> ​I don't understand who is writing these job recs? What's even more
>> frustrating is when they turn around and say they can't find enough
>> "skilled" people and want to lobby congress to open up more  H1 visa
>> folks to ​fill these positions.
> What makes you think the former isn't a direct result of the latter?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DVoL-1gQgU
>
> SteveT
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