On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob La Quey wrote: > >> Yeh. Also the specific question, again review the actual BList >> challenge, is far too small to be a "free labor" deal. These guys >> have multilmillion dollars of VC money. They really do not need to >> slurp even $10,000 worth of "free labor." They will likely pay >> the person they hire $80,000 to $120,000 per year plus stock >> options. It makes _no_ sense for them to steal a few thousand >> dollars worth of code. > > Um, so? > > Surprisingly, capitalization does not seem to affect those kinds of folks.
Point accepted. It may even attact them. > > I have seen managers collect pencils at the end of the day in multibillion > dollar companies. One manager decided he needed to save $2.00 per day on > electricity and would turn the Versatec plotter on-and-off > continuously--burning out a $20,000 part on it. I have seen companies try > to get interviewers to fix their bugs (as a consultant, I see this in about > 20% of the folks I get called in for--needless to say we don't do business) > in the interview. > > Chiselers don't care. > > While I chastised Gabriel's attitude, I'm also not stupid. Bastards exist > and will try to take advantage of you. The trick is to try not to carry the > attitude over from the bad ones to one that might be good. I understand all that. But I play a looser game with a larger upside than some consulting in mind. I lose more than you do almost certainly. I have, I suspect, also had some pretty good upsides. One consequence though is that while I might be hiring from time to time I am not looking for a job. I might also be broke. Such is life. Babe Ruth led the majors in strike outs as well as home runs. Go for the bleachers. Don't sweat the small stuff. BobLQ -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
