On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Stan Baptista wrote:
Yet Lingle is making noise about getting Hawaii competitive,
Operative word: noise.
Basically, if you don't like it, don't let the door hit your butt
on your way to San Francisco (or, I guess, Houston;-)
<expletive> that noise. I'm here and staying. Who the >
<expletive> are you to dismiss me?
Calm down big boy.
I'm not your "boy", and I don't like your dismissive attitude.
I'm explaining my take on the reason why wages are relatively low
especially since COL is so high. The dismissive attitude would be
on the part of those who pay the salaries that resulted in the poor
showing on the survey. If they cared more about whether you stayed
or went (as a person being paid for tech work), then the salaries
would be higher.
Ignoring my real issue, that Hawaii has no high-tech work-force, and
the combination of the death of the housing boom, coupled with any
decrease in military spending (say, when Inouye finally stops
running) is going to be tough for the state.
Any downturn of the general economy is likely to impact Hawaii's
technology work-force, because *so much* of what they do here is
system administration or network administration and these will
contract along with the non-technical workforce. Worthy work, to be
sure, but where are the developers? Where are the "exports" for
Hawaii?
_______________________________________________
LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list
http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
