When I was contracting on-site I had an Excel workbook that I used to estimate what rate I would want to go live in <insert city here> for a few quarters. The workbook was - well, you know what Scott Adams said? "To a normal person, if it ain't broke, don’t fix it. To an engineer, if it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features yet." Like that.
Anyway, I never did work in NYC. I'd consult my workbook, and it would say $120/hr or some awful number that I could hardly take seriously myself, and the recruiter would just laugh and move on. I eventually decided that people who live in NYC must know some tricks that I don't know. Not that I'm unhappy about the outcome; I'm not a big-city guy anyway, when I get my druthers. And about req numbers: I learned at some point to get the client's req number from the recruiter as soon as the talk got past the introductory stage. No confusion allowed about who submitted me first and for which position. Truthfully most of the recruiters didn't try to play fast and loose with the conventions we agree on, but there were a few who did and there were opportunities for honest confusion too. Recording the req# in my database was one way to reduce the latter. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bobbie Jo Justice Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 08:22 We've all dealt with good recruiters and bad recruiters over the years. Good recruiters will send decent paying remote jobs that match your experience. Bad recruiters will send jobs about 40+ lpars paying peanuts. Then there's always let's work onsite in nyc for 1/4th the salary you'll need to survive. Not to mention, we can submit you to the same company multiple times because this position "just came out today and is a different requisition number". My other favorite is sending me computer operator jobs when the last time I was a computer operator was the mid 1980s. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
