RE: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-12 Thread William Seiter (mobile)
ginal Message- From: "Jochem van Dieten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" Sent: 9/12/2007 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) ** Private ** wrote: > I'm not really fond of Bruce's choice of words, but I understand his point. &g

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-12 Thread morchella
i would do any ones job at 1/2 price... specially if i was un-employed & needed rent.. On 9/12/07, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** Private ** wrote: > > I'm not really fond of Bruce's choice of words, but I understand his point. > > How are we supposed to compete, with someone wh

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-12 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > I'm not really fond of Bruce's choice of words, but I understand his point. > How are we supposed to compete, with someone who will work for half, or less > of what we do. If you are competing with them based on price, you are in the wrong business. Most of these guys would

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e, instead of hiring into the professionals. William -Original Message -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Date: Sep 11, 2007 13:34 -To: "CF-Community" -Subj: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) - -You provide services that they can't. You provide face-time, or -cultural underst

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Doom
You provide services that they can't. You provide face-time, or cultural understanding, or an accent that the client can understand. You provide management for the mud-hut-dwelling-towel-wearers. You push the routine stuff to cheap labor overseas and take care of the architecture and tricky b

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Judah McAuley
Scott Stewart wrote: > I'm not really fond of Bruce's choice of words, but I understand his point. > How are we supposed to compete, with someone who will work for half, or less > of what we do. There's a whole network that would be more than willing to > push you or me or Bruce out of a job to sen

RE: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Scott Stewart
4:06 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) Bruce Sorge wrote: > I have not heard of this but it does not surprise me. There is a site called > Rent A Coder. I don't know how many projects I bid on but I was constantly > out bid by some towel-head in a mud

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Bruce Sorge
Well you do know that you do not have to read my posts, right? Just like I don't have to look at the stupid idiot kids wearing their pants half way down their ass. Get over it. I did recently. On 9/11/07, Judah McAuley wrote: > > I'm not a big fan of off-shore outsourcing of programming work for

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Judah McAuley
Bruce Sorge wrote: > I have not heard of this but it does not surprise me. There is a site called > Rent A Coder. I don't know how many projects I bid on but I was constantly > out bid by some towel-head in a mud hut in India. So needless to say I quit > that site. Fortunately it was free to bid. I

RE: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Bruce Sorge
o see the quality of work they bought. Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:27 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) I receive at least 3 offers a day for a position in San Jose or San Francisco, by both emai

RE: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Scott Stewart
MAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:27 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) I receive at least 3 offers a day for a position in San Jose or San Francisco, by both email and phone. I live in LA. I had one recruiter actually try to argue that the drive was

RE: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread Bruce Sorge
September 11, 2007 12:20 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) Yeah, those exchanges get me all the time as well. I dare not post my listing locally because I know for a fact I'd get called by at least one local recruiting agency for it. That'd be a trick

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
7;required' pay rate, so they can bid on projects better. Anyone else heard of this? William -Original Message -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Date: Sep 11, 2007 12:20 -To: "CF-Community" -Subj: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) - -> No those are the guys that call me d

Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!)

2007-09-11 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> No those are the guys that call me daily, > Claiming his name is "Bob Smith" > > Or you get email exchanges like this... > > Read from the bottom Yeah, those exchanges get me all the time as well. I dare not post my listing locally because I know for a fact I'd get called by at least one lo

RE: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) this is more readable

2007-09-11 Thread Scott Stewart
-Original Message- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:15 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:08 PM To: CF-