Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:
On 5/25/05, Alex Rier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Breakthrough Ltd provides Software Development and System
Administration
Services. For more information see www.breakt.co.il
FYI
This is *THE WORST* company I had interview at. Offered me slave
salary and working conditions.
Then come interview with TkOS! We'll offer you even *less* for longer
hours.
Now seriously - Alex Rier's breakt is one of a handful of small
companies that are actually trying to survive in the Linux support
market. They guy is a hero for even trying, and deserves a "tsalash*
for staying with it as long as he has. He is not living from
speculators money, he lives from the sweat of his brow. He is offering
a job - an opportunity for the right person at the right time. If you
go to work for him, it's not just for the money. So cut him some slack
if you really believe in Linux. And if you really want it, I have a
long list of great places to work that pay even less.
All patriotism aside, I disagree.
I am not in this business as long as you are, nor employ as many people
as you do. Still, I think I have earned some right to an opinion about
this (and according to your definition above, am I also a hero?).
A business owner is a business owner. An employee is an employee. I will
not hire anyone but a Linux enthusiastic, because anyone else is not
very useful to me. Still, I believe that people I employ should be
payed, fairly. I may not be at the top of the salary survey (what small
business is?), but I know that I can demand from myself, as the owner of
the company, things I am not entitled to demand from my employees.
It is very easy for an employer to see the sacrificies he (or she) is
willing to make, and demand the same from his employees. Unless you are
giving your employees shares in your company, however, I believe this
view to be wrong, pure and simple.
And to everyone else. Lingnu is now hiring a Sysadmin/support person,
with a touch of system level development (i.e. - no C/C++ programming
knowledge required, but you will be expected to know how to patch shell
scripts and use CVS). The salary is not extremely high, but I've made
every effort for it to be fair (and if a really quallified person comes
along, even VERY fair).
Yes, the applicant is expected to derive pleasure from the fact he or
she is helping an open source company along, helping customers use Linux
more, and from the actual work. This is expected to be the things that
will make the applicant stay, not the things that will make them give up
a proper salary for.
Regards,
- yba
Applicants are welcome to send resumes to [EMAIL PROTECTED], BTW.
http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/04-2005/14907.html
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd.
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