I suspect this is a symptom of the GFC rather than anything more sinister. I'm sorry you and your not-to-be colleagues appear to be friendly fire in this circumstance.
I can tell that GFC][ has people twitched. Although I live in the best functioning developed economy in the world (fsvo), the bank I've recently been going through the motions with were asking some weirder-than-the-last-time questions about my situation. (disclaimer, I barely know who net a porter are as they don't offer telecommute positions). -- Sent from my phone, so apologies for any spelling errors, top-posting, brevity, etc. On 09/12/2011, at 14:13, Rudolf Lippan <rlip...@remotelinux.com> wrote: > Good morning, Perl Mongers, > > This is a followup to my post to the Perl jobs-discuss mailing list. > Terrence picked it up here: > http://livingcosmos.posterous.com/beware-of-net-a-porter-perl-jobs and the > original can be found here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jobs-discuss@perl.org/msg01469.html > > > About six weeks ago, I was contacted by a recruiter and asked if I was > interested in a team lead position in New Jersey, and so begins my story. > > I was wanting to get back into the community after a limiting contract, but > this wasn't really the sort of splash I hoped to make. I've never been moved > to do something like this in the 10+ years I've been programming > professionally. I've experienced some less than honest recruiting techniques > and companies that had no issue jerking people around, but I was made aware > this morning that there were at least two other Perl programmers affected, > including junior candidates that probably had more hanging on this than I did. > > I sent the following list of events to both NET-A-PORTER and the recruiting > agency 7 Dec. Earlier today (8 Dec.), the recruiter called me and confirmed > this, point by point. NET-A-PORTER has, as of yet, not replied. > > 1) That NET-A-PORTER was fully aware of the contract rate during the interview > process. > > 2) That NET-A-PORTER selected me to lead their US team and I was asked to > wait > for final sign off. > > 3) That NET-A-PORTER was aware that I let another opportunity go based on my > understanding that my employment was pending a 'final signature'. > > 4) That as a condition of final sign off NET-A-PORTER asked that, at the end > of the 6 month contract period, I would be willing to accept $30K less than > the original budgeted salary with the proviso that the salary would be open > to renegotiation based on the market conditions at that time. Furthermore > that I agreed to this. > > 5) That NET-A-PORTER decided to withdraw the position at this point and no > longer build out a US-based Perl development team. The reason given is that > it would cost 1/2 as much to build out a team in the UK. > > For a company that espouses their programming culture and community support, > I can't understand how they could think this was even remotely acceptable. > If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me. The recruiter > gave permission to share contact information with any interested parties > regarding this situation. > > I know I'm not in the UK but, short of trying for slashdot, I thought this > was the most appropriate venue for informing those who should be most aware > of their actions. > > -r
