[ale] OT: Linux jobs

[Steve Litt]

That woman's article is excellent, and in fact exactly describes why I
founded Steve's Stereo Repair in 1983: A company that later
morphed into Troubleshooters.Com. I owe my business to concepts
contained in that article.

I'll make one other comment: Liz Ryan's article
(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-coffee-employment-over-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add)
offers *no justification* for the (barely legal) misbehavior of
corporations, their HR departments, and their immigration lawyers in
denying employment to qualified and willing Americans. I want to make
sure nobody interprets my approval of this article as "Those lazy
Americans won't manager their careers, so they deserve to be replaced
by foreign workers."

The H1B thing is about getting ubercompliant technologists working 80
and being paid 40, because one little complaint sends them back where
they came from.

SteveT



On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:34:45 -0400
Karenga Smith <ksmith at kpinetworx.com> wrote:

> I love this woman's articles
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-coffee-employment-over-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add
> 
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >>
> >> Steve Litt
> >> April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
> >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21