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edu/kchang/motd/Industry/Jobs \_ got a 6% raise just last week. Before that, my last raise was in early 2001 and that was 8%. These happen in random years in response to competition from other universities. I got a 8% raise only because couple guys in my project left and I was implying I was going to leave if I was not well compensated. I was promoted one grade level 2 yrs ago and my pay went up about 15%. I haven't had a raise since then (I've survived 3 rounds of lay-offs, so I'm just glad to have a job). If it happens my pay should go up 10% or so (not sure what "engineers" get paid at this firm, currently I'm just a "member of technical staff"). It will most likeley not go back to the way it was in the forseeable future. It says that the recovery has happened for well-off americans but low income and middle class americans are still very much struggling. for me, it seems that those with money is going to do well in this age of outsourcing and globalization, whereas those with skills that can be oursourced are going to continue to struggle. Only difference now is that no one speaks for anyone but the rich. People who had money during The Depression became very wealthy. and both Roosevelts, to some extent - Teddy more than Franklin, perhaps. There was also more voices for the worker in the media in the days before consolidation...
com/6d6y6 incidentally, for those who haven't considered it, the wsj has surpassed economist as my favourite rag. it's worth considering even if you are not a pig for finance and business news. I agree with the critism that the opinion pages are totally one sided, but I find the rest of it rather balanced. and its viewpoints are often quite refreshing and insightful compared to more general news rags.
See /csua/pub/jobs/ZoneLabs for details (Note also interested in Seniors looking to work part time, with possible full time employment after graduating or dropping out. Are you going to fix the "kills idle ssh connections" 'option' in 5x which has no option to disable this 'feature'? I rebuilt my home network so that I don't have to use zone alarm anymore. If someone won't use the free version, how many more won't pay for it? I fought long and hard to try and convince management/executives to hold the release but ultimately lost. The kills idle ssh connections bug has been fixed along with many other egregious bugs that should have prevented 50 from releasing in the first place. com) if you'd like an advance copy of the update, though from the sound of it i guess not.
They pay a lot of money to young people straight out of college (so they don't really have any work experience to measure themselves against), put them in a pool of other young over- achievers, and tell them they're the best. That's the good part-- the bad thing is that they start thinking it normal to work 12 hour days, that there are no real jobs outside of the consulting outfit, and that they are some sort of loser if they get out of the "up or out" system. Only the really strong ones manage to avoid a total burnout. To be fair, a lot of the people I know at her outfit are of above average intelligence, except when it comes to saying "no" to being shat upon at work by managers and customers. I also think that you have to be a singular kind of defective to survive for long enough to get into senior management, so that breeds some pretty evil culture. were inevitably totally burned out and totally dissatisfied at having wasted a few years of their lives.
put my resume out and got quite a few responses so far sticking at job until i find something, they will counter offer only when I will leave, not giving notice because they fire tons of people without notice. I also went and talked to my VP of Eng, it is delayed until mid next month. I think I'll put my resume out as well because if he's sincere, he should at least give me a good faith offer. Why would you let them know you were looking before you actually got a new job? My God, are Cal people really this unprepared for life in the real world? Notice means, "I already have a new job, I'm not interested in your counter offer, I hate your guts but I'm giving you two worthless weeks of slacking and short hours so you can't ruin my good name by saying I walked out with no notice". better yet, just give a day notice because I ain't coming back. people got laid off during the first round got six month of paid. in the real world, you'll just know how to whine and complain to the the money. Word gets around, and the world is small--and even if 9/10 of your colleagues are shit, you may find yourself working with the tenth someday, and want to leave him with a good impression. So he threatened to leave by giving the notice that he's looking for a job elsewhere. A raise granted under those conditions won't keep the employee around for more than 6 months. If he wants a raise he should ask for a raise and then when he doesn't get one they have no reason to waste his time with a fake counter. There's also the risk that they'll give him the raise he wants and then replace his ass 3 weeks later since they know he's going to quit in 6 months anyway *and* that other job is now gone so he's fucked. Get new job, quit old job, move on like a professional, forget about them. In the meantime I will look for a job and when I do find one, leave without 2 weeks notice. I just quit the worst job I ever had but I gave the 2 weeks. I slacked off, got paid for it, and they can't tell their manager buddies in other companies that I walked without notice. Slack off, come in late, leave early, take long lunches, accomplish nothing, but get those two weeks officially on the books. Better to be known as someone who quits without giving notice that someone who assaults his supervisors.
I have been asked to do consulting for another company on the side. Any suggestions on places to look for finding how to set this rate? You can't charge more than what the other company willing to pay. That was a perfect completely true but totally worthless answer! It all matters to what the company willing to pay for your work. If the company don't think it can find someone reliable or capable, heck, they're willing to pay 2x, 3x or 5x. The key is to do your market research and find out what you're worth. If you're not using their facilities, you could probably argue 2x, but if you're at the office and using their equipment (which means you're not a contractor in the strictest sense of the word), then 15x is more appropriate, since you're only saving them benefits, not overhead. If it's not enough money, you won't be motivated to finish it. It was a huge pain \_ I did an on the site job for a few weeks at 1x. It was a huge pain in the ass and totally not worth it so I dropped it. Remember that people think you're worth what they're paying you. Whatever you do, you should not charge under $100/hr for real IT work. If you're just installing windows patches in some office, then less is ok. Remember, it costs them a shitload more to hire fulltime to do it and they don't have to pay your benefits, etc. Your current salary is only an amusing tidbit and shouldn't have much effect on what you charge since it's likely you're underpaid right now. How much would someone with your skills make today in the open market? The CSUA salaries I've seen posted over the years are always pathetically low.
What contributions have you made, or skills do you have that would also merit the extra money? Even if your boss does agree that you should be given a raise based on "inflation" how is he going to argue on your behalf to -his- boss (or worse) Human Resources? It's better than having your position eliminated and/or sent overseas. Might also want to think about changing careers, if you are not on the mgmt track. The economy is up, people are hiring, salaries are going up. If you have any tech skills and can negotiate worth a damn and are willing to walk away from lesser offers you're good for the $100k range easy. The rest of you 70k bastards should go get real jobs and stop fucking up the pay scales for the rest of us.
I still have an inflated dot-com era salary fro...
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