----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Job Offering
> I accepted. I start in two weeks.
>
> - Matt Small
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug White
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Job Offering
>
>
> I wrote that before I was told it was a contract position via a
recruiter.
>
> But Windows media gurus are in short supply
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Haggerty, Mike
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:09 PM
> Subject: RE: Job Offering
>
> I disagree completely. I know of at least 8 Microsoft contractors who
> have been laid off in the last 12 months, most of them were replaced
by
> overseas workers at a fraction of their salaries. Two of the people I
> know had PhDs, and one of them had only been there 9 months.
>
> Again (and I think everyone is saying this), take the job if you want
it
> but realize there is a good chance it will not be there forever. And
> keep us all informed about whatever happens.
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:47 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Job Offering
>
> Well, consider this: Actually it is a no-brainer.
>
> Microsoft does not lay off, ever.
>
> Long term Microsoft Employees are very wealthy
>
> You had better have a collection of extremely compelling reasons to
> reject the
> MS offer. They are going to be around after many others aren't.
>
> The problem I can see with the current employer who is paying in the
> mid-40s,
> jumping to match the offer from Microsoft, would make you stand out in
> such a
> way that co-workers would become resentful. Plus if you are worth mid
> $70s, why
> has not your current employer come forward in the past? That is, if
> they really
> have your best interests at heart. Your current working environment
> might well
> become untenable under those circumstances.
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