"The question is, what will the market bear? If Mr. Reece can get his employees within the stated salary range, then the market has spoken in his favor. If, ceteris paribus, he's back on the market in a few months with a higher range, then the market has spoken against him."
Well spoken! Have you been studying economics in your spare time? (ceteris paribus - for all you non econ / non latin students means "all else being equal") On 1/7/08, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:18:35PM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 3:07 PM, Ben Reece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You understood me. If you want a good engineer you should expect to > > pay him more. The guys I knew in college who I'd say were good > > engineers (though less experienced, as you say) made more than 40k > > when we graduated two years ago and housing and fuel costs have gone > > up a lot since then. Some of us did, anyway, and we all deserved to. > > What you "deserve" is irrelevant. I think I deserve several million > dollars a year. For some reason, those ingrates out there just aren't > giving it to me. > > The question is, what will the market bear? If Mr. Reece can get his > employees within the stated salary range, then the market has spoken > in his favor. If, ceteris paribus, he's back on the market in a few > months with a higher range, then the market has spoken against him. > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHgtTn//ZMSE7N39sRAggSAJ9LSnKbM3iAF/67V9ZAGu9m15FCQgCfV4v8 > A2SrkIyl1xWaqDp/c3hecTk= > =jAsN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
