James: You have probably never been to Dubuque (I have a couple of times) there is *NOTHING* to do but ski and the skiing is at best bunny hills for advanced beginners. Oh yes there is a casino (I have never been in). But the place is for raising corn (maze) and is flat as a crepe (except for the area around the Mississippi river). The closet real city is Chicago and thats the minimum of 3.5 hours by car. Rumor has it there will be (maybe) a once a day train into Chicago. Thats how isolated it is.
Essentially the only thing to do there is to drink. Ed ________________________________ From: james smith <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 3:43 AM Subject: Re: z/OS Systems Programmer Jobs in Dubuque Iowa IBM appear to have a similar mandate in Europe. They have a data centre in Brno in the Czech Republic. I asked of the salary was per day or per week? Turns out it was per month - speaks volumes. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Bobbie Justice <[email protected]> wrote: > let me put it this way, I told them they needed to multiply the current > salary they were "offering" based on their requirements by about 2 and 1/2 > times, then add another $10,000 on top of that since I would eventually get > tired of looking at Iowa cornfields, and then add another $15,000 on top of > that since it's a known sweat shop. > > In other words, the salary was nowhere close to what it should have been > for that position. > > Bobbie Jo Justice > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
