You probably know the answer to that.Originally Posted by The Archangel
This thread is civil. The pit is not. Clearly you don't understand the difference between the pit and the rest of the boards. I suggest you re-read the description of the pit as found on the front page of the forums, and the "welcome" sticky in the pit itself.How the hell isn't this thread in the pit?
And, to stay topical...
My bitch of the day: the recruiter who was trying to get me to take a worse job than the job I took totally fucking lied to me, because he was pissed about losing the commission for finding me. He told me I should expect 2 or 3 hours a day to go the 16 miles south to get to work if I took the job I took (as opposed to the pretty much guaranteed 20 minute northbound ride it'd be to take the job he was recruiting me for). But today I drove it between 8:30 and 9:00 am (pretty much peak rush hour), and it took like exactly half an hour. And that was with an accident causing slowdowns about halfway there.
Seriously, he was offering a pretty comical amount of money while I was on contract, but that'd just make the pay cut of going permanent sting more. And a 9-10+ hour workday + 40 minute round trip commute is WAY worse than an 8 hour workday + 60 minute commute.
Also, the salary they wanted to hire me (promising me 50+ hour workweeks) was, given the amount of work I'd be doing, NOT comparable to the salary I got. In retrospect, them trying to sell it like it was a great position was just ... shitty, really. If you need 60 hours a week of sysadmin work fighting fires, you don't hire one good sysadmin and expect him to put in crap hours, you hire two good sysadmins and expect them to keep up with the fires and improve the setup to the point where they're not constantly firefighting, and hope that either your business grows to support the need for them as they get on top of things.