[ale] OT: Linux jobs

[Karenga Smith]

I love this woman's articles
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-coffee-employment-over-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:

> Huh, I wonder why they want to hire an immigrant so badly. [I was born in
> the USA, btw. Todor is the Eastern European version of Theodore.]
>
> The last 3 job openings my department had we filled with candidates
> considerably less qualified than we'd have liked. But I work for a state
> university and the pay scale sucks. The very last position we filled had
> what I thought were totally unrealistic qualifications. They wanted someone
> who could manage a VMware cluster, a HPC cluster, and help the office staff
> with their Excel spreadsheets. I told the chair of the search committee
> that anybody with those qualifications who'd be willing to work for what we
> pay must have something wrong with him. His response took me a little by
> surprise, "Well, what's wrong with you?" I had to point out that I am
> blind, I don't know if it just slipped his mind or what. It is nice when
> that happens. My immediate supervisor, who had been my boss for about 10
> years, once handed me a printout saying something like, "Wow, look at this,
> you won't believe it." Anyway, somebody did apply for the job who had all
> the qualifications and was willing to accept the pay we were offering. And
> he really does knowall that stuff. He just turned out being such a bozo
> personally that they've given him his notice.
>
> When I got hired, they asked the same thing of me. With all your
> qualifications, why are you willing to take this job. I was lucky I put it
> tactfully enough. I said, "As a blind person, I realize my options are
> limited. No matter how good I am, a lot of people just can't get past
> that." Just like in the video below, if you don't want to hire a disabled
> person, there are ways.
>
>
>
>
> On 04/29/2016 05:20 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:14:29 -0400
>> Karenga Smith <ksmith at kpinetworx.com> wrote:
>>
>> ​I don't understand who is writing these job recs? What's even more
>>> frustrating is when they turn around and say they can't find enough
>>> "skilled" people and want to lobby congress to open up more  H1 visa
>>> folks to ​fill these positions.
>>>
>> What makes you think the former isn't a direct result of the latter?
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DVoL-1gQgU
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
>>
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