On Friday 25 February 2005 00:22, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > I also have 34 years as a systems programmer, applications developer, > independent consultant, etc. I was maintaning operating systems, > providing customer support, etc long before you were born.
Low blow, pulling rank is the call of the desperate. > As for my attitude, yes it sucks by Israeli standards. But I'm not > interested in working for a company that buys a five computer site license > and refuses to update it (not in the budget) when then are 60 computers > using it. It sucks by any standard, including american or european. It would be advisable, especially considering your long years in the industry, to get the facts right before climbing high horses. > Or likes to multiply microsoft licenses. Or use "free for home use: only > software without paying for a license. This is not our case. > He did not communicate that very effectivly, in fact I thought that by > reading his post he had no idea of what he was talking about, he was > "posting for a friend". He offered a job. If there was a taker, he'd give him more information. He doesn't owe you or the list anything. Think carefully, if people that actually have something to offer (a job in this case) get this kind of treatment here, what incentive would they have to continue to do so ? > Did not seem to be for me, why didn't he say? Two years ago in the middle > of "the blight" I was offered more for less. I did not take it as it was > in Herzalia Pituach and I live in Jerusalem and don't drive. I did not > want to take a job with a 3 hour each way commute. You were too self involved with your righteous crusade to actually get the facts. Maybe too many years in the business makes you too cynical. Listening and checking facts however, regardless of your experience, is still the way to go, and no one is exempt. > Well, actually they would be. If he was asking for my advice as to what to > expect with such a job offer. If he has an an unusal job to offer, or a > great benefits plan, or something else he should say it. He wasn't looking for your advice. He was advertising a job. That's it. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
