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I live in ATL, my dream job is to get an IT job in Hartsfield Jackson ( http://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc03/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=ATLGA&cws=1&rid=1790 quote:Telecom Project Manager SIGH... if only.. 
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May 19, 2015 20:48
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My dream would be to get a job not in Atlanta. Failing that, a job that would let me buy a small house in the Druid Hills/Decatur area. Although that would be harder and harder to do as time goes on and they tear down old houses to build ugly as gently caress mcmansions.
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May 19, 2015 20:59
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Race Realists posted:I live in ATL, my dream job is to get an IT job in Hartsfield Jackson ( quote:Position Salary Range $63, 200 - $84, 300 That seems a little weak on the pay-grade for what was listed.
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May 19, 2015 21:01
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flosofl posted:That seems a little weak on the pay-grade for what was listed. Yeah even the top end seems kinda poor for a CCNP-level engineer with leadership duties, project management skills and a loving masters degree. Even accounting for Atlanta not being super high cost of living. Seems like $84k would be the lower bound, not upper. Maybe they're just banking on someone like Race Realists who really, really wants to work at an airport? Nothing wrong with that.
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May 19, 2015 21:11
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Race Realists posted:I live in ATL, my dream job is to get an IT job in Hartsfield Jackson ( This is a listing designed NOT to lead to hiring. Nobody who has those qualifications will work for that money, and nobody willing to work for that money will be qualified. The unfilled job will be used to justify whining for more H1-B visas and how America has a STEM crisis. It's just for driving down salaries and labour costs, nothing more.
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May 19, 2015 21:36
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I officially started my new gig at a large government information agency today. Might not be too shabby. We will see, but I think this might be a big jump in salary and a big decrease in responsibility.
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May 19, 2015 21:36
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Spoke with the flight lead about a virtualization network admin position I was interested in. His response was that it would likely be very difficult to move from the prime contractor (current employer) to the sub-contractor because then that would be another Exchange position they'd have to fill. I responded back along the lines of "I can make your life easier if you move me to the virtualization position, I can take the other virtualization position that I interviewed for and have a very good chance of getting, or I can just quit and head to Florida like I planned and you can look for 2 people for a dead-end contract." It may have been a mistake, since I found out after talking to the PM and getting him on board with supporting the move that the position will likely end come November 30 - they still haven't decided. I may have to take the other virtualization position in Virginia just to make sure I have a job in 6 months. I hate it when I stick my foot in my mouth.
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May 19, 2015 22:19
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EoRaptor posted:The unfilled job will be used to justify whining for more H1-B visas and how America has a STEM crisis. It's just for driving down salaries and labour costs, nothing more. I haven't heard this line of thought before, do you think there isn't STEM crisis?
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May 19, 2015 22:26
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Tab8715 posted:I haven't heard this line of thought before, do you think there isn't STEM crisis?
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May 19, 2015 22:33
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Vulture Culture posted:Look up the average salary of a postdoc, then tell me why you think there aren't more people doing it. My brother in law has a masters in Physics, is now losing hair trying to find a job.
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May 19, 2015 23:01
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Tab8715 posted:I haven't heard this line of thought before, do you think there isn't STEM crisis? There isn't a STEM crisis. There's a "we need an experienced mid-level mechanical/chemical/software/network engineer but we either laid all of them off or refused to hire junior engineers to train during the recession and now we're in the same boat as everyone else and can't afford to pay the market rate for one" crisis.
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May 19, 2015 23:39
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Is it a good or bad sign that i've already had a phone interview and we have scheduled an in-person interview without any mention of salary yet? I have found that companies that pay like poo poo are often weirdly, proudly upfront about it: "Sole, jack-of-all-trades "IT guy" for an office of over 200 Mac and PC users in a major metro area? Yeah we can go as high as 58k and thats on the real high end....."
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May 20, 2015 00:19
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I've experienced both ways. Ballpark compensation chat before onsite, or after at the offer stage. I don't think one or the other is a huge red flag. I guess the one benefit of starting it up front is that you know if you're like tens of thousands of dollars apart. So you don't burn PTO on a completely pointless exercise.
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May 20, 2015 01:23
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KERNOD WEL posted:Is it a good or bad sign that i've already had a phone interview and we have scheduled an in-person interview without any mention of salary yet? I have found that companies that pay like poo poo are often weirdly, proudly upfront about it: That's a good sign. Let them bring up money first, and let them bring it up after they've decided to make you an offer. If they make you an offer, that means they want you, and likely have some room to go up. Don't be afraid to exploit sunk-cost fallacies on their end, and if the numbers aren't there, don't feel bad about walking away.
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May 20, 2015 01:24
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KERNOD WEL posted:I have found that companies that pay like poo poo are often weirdly, proudly upfront about it I'd take it as a good thing, would you want to do rounds of interviews only find the compensation is incredibly low? I always ask "What compensation is included with this position?"
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May 20, 2015 02:26
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Docjowles posted:I've experienced both ways. Ballpark compensation chat before onsite, or after at the offer stage. I don't think one or the other is a huge red flag.
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May 20, 2015 02:40
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JHVH-1 posted:Anyone visited the AWS pop up in San Fran ? They are opening one in Manhattan and kinda curious. Like if you can just go and hang out and work, and get input on what your projects are that would be kinda neat. I have, during RSA to attend a lecture on Amzn KMS and to talk to a solutions architect about it. Technically I'm an employee so I don't know how it is for others but it's very much "come down, talk to an SA about your problems and they'll help you for free ". They do events too like all day boot camps and evening seminars. (I'm headed to one this week actually)
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May 20, 2015 02:43
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I went through the first in person interview at my current job before discussing salary with the recruiter. But I already knew how much I wanted going into it, and I had a good feeling they were willing to pay it.
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May 20, 2015 03:44
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So I was up for, and the front runner for a engineer position within my group (currently a contractor, position is for an actual FTE position.) They've been telling me to be ready for the interview every couple weeks for the past 7 months. Yesterday they notified me they decided to make it a Senior Engineer position. They're still going to give me an interview, but it went from "As long as I don't totally bomb the interview" to "If I miraculously convince them my knowledge makes up for not having an extra like 4 years of experience." It's lame to complain about being given a 5% chance to get the senior position, but when I had a 75% chance at the regular position....
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May 20, 2015 04:37
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Wrong thread.
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May 20, 2015 04:57
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So here's something that been going, I've started a new job roughly three months ago and 4 days ago one of the thousands many IT outsource consultancy companies phoned me up with a job opportunity, same old speech, and I accepted to go along with the process, mostly because, 'why not?'. So we schedule an interview at the client, which is a bit off-hand to where I live, basically at the city's outskirts; what happens is that they start questioning me about wanting to skip bail on the way to the interview with the client, something I found a bit weird since they're the ones who phoned and prodded me. Anyways, not even two days later they threw at me a very attractive monetary proposal, and MUST have my reply in 24hrs or less. The money is good, but half of it is untaxed, payed through some weird legal loopholes, something related to an insurance company that will put money on a separate bank account to mine. They also seem on a hurry to lock the client, so basically they want to force him to decide after having me on board. All in all, I'm finding it a bit fishy, it seems very rushed and half baked, and they almost accuse me of just jumping from job to job and yet want me to do the same now. On a long term perspective, am I prepping myself to get screwed over?
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May 20, 2015 10:04
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Honest Thief posted:So here's something that been going, I've started a new job roughly three months ago and 4 days ago one of the thousands many IT outsource consultancy companies phoned me up with a job opportunity, same old speech, and I accepted to go along with the process, mostly because, 'why not?'. So we schedule an interview at the client, which is a bit off-hand to where I live, basically at the city's outskirts; what happens is that they start questioning me about wanting to skip bail on the way to the interview with the client, something I found a bit weird since they're the ones who phoned and prodded me. It's a scam, you'll never see the money in the bank account that's not yours (it's theirs)
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May 20, 2015 10:42
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Honest Thief posted:On a long term perspective, am I prepping myself to get screwed over? Is it a Nigerian bank? On a related note: I met a guy who worked for a real Nigerian bank at a project management training course. He was really nice and patiently put up with all our jokes, which I'm sure he heard thousands of times before.
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May 20, 2015 12:28
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Honest Thief posted:So here's something that been going, I've started a new job roughly three months ago and 4 days ago one of the thousands many IT outsource consultancy companies phoned me up with a job opportunity, same old speech, and I accepted to go along with the process, mostly because, 'why not?'. So we schedule an interview at the client, which is a bit off-hand to where I live, basically at the city's outskirts; what happens is that they start questioning me about wanting to skip bail on the way to the interview with the client, something I found a bit weird since they're the ones who phoned and prodded me. Sounds like you are asking us to convince you not to. Don't do it.
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May 20, 2015 13:07
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is? 
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May 20, 2015 13:22
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Honest Thief posted:So here's something that been going, I've started a new job roughly three months ago and 4 days ago one of the thousands many IT outsource consultancy companies phoned me up with a job opportunity, same old speech, and I accepted to go along with the process, mostly because, 'why not?'. So we schedule an interview at the client, which is a bit off-hand to where I live, basically at the city's outskirts; what happens is that they start questioning me about wanting to skip bail on the way to the interview with the client, something I found a bit weird since they're the ones who phoned and prodded me. Explain to me why you would work a job where they don't actually pay you directly?
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May 20, 2015 14:24
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Another thing to check on is the cost of health benefits when switching jobs. I've made the mistake of just comparing coverage's, making sure deductibles and what not are roughly similar. Only to find that my employee contribution went from like $10 a paycheck to $100.
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May 20, 2015 14:57
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Also, don't gently caress around with taxes. You might hate them, you might be the Ron Paulest, Aynd Randest, most Libertarian of tax detesters, but the IRS will throw you in real prison. And you won't be able to say "Well my employer was doing it!" because they don't care.
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May 20, 2015 15:03
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Another thing to check on is the cost of health benefits when switching jobs. I've made the mistake of just comparing coverage's, making sure deductibles and what not are roughly similar. Only to find that my employee contribution went from like $10 a paycheck to $100. Also 401k vesting.
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May 20, 2015 16:23
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Sickening posted:Explain to me why you would work a job where they don't actually pay you directly? The overtaxation in my country has lead to companies resorting to schemes to avoid them, so it's becoming a norm to achieve short term advantages over the rivals. Like, what they're offering is 500€ more than I make, and they pay less tax than my current employers. It's one of those, "it's legal, for now" loopholes
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May 20, 2015 16:30
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Username seems oddly appropriate.
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May 20, 2015 16:58
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RFC2324 posted:Username seems oddly appropriate. My thoughts exactly. Also I wanna know what country it is.
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May 20, 2015 17:03
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Inspector_666 posted:My thoughts exactly. I'm sure in any country in the same situation as mine you would find the same, but in answer, Portugal
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May 20, 2015 17:09
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Another one: https://weakdh.org/ Weakness/vulnerability in DH key exchange when using TLS and a 512-bit key, which a scary amount of servers still use. Paper here, and browsers are being updated to auto reject anything smaller than 1024-bit it looks like. quote:We carried out this computation against the most common 512-bit prime used for TLS and demonstrate that the Logjam attack can be used to downgrade connections to 80% of TLS servers supporting DHE_EXPORT. We further estimate that an academic team can break a 768-bit prime and that a nation-state can break a 1024-bit prime. Breaking the single, most common 1024-bit prime used by web servers would allow passive eavesdropping on connections to 18% of the Top 1 Million HTTPS domains. A second prime would allow passive decryption of connections to 66% of VPN servers and 26% of SSH servers. A close reading of published NSA leaks shows that the agency's attacks on VPNs are consistent with having achieved such a break.
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May 20, 2015 17:23
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Honest Thief posted:I'm sure in any country in the same situation as mine you would find the same, but in answer, Portugal Oh. That loophole is kind of common right now here, see http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/seguranca_social/detalhe/empresas_trocam_salario_por_seguro_mensal_e_fogem_a_tsu.html . I receive my yearly bonus through this loophole. For all you guys that might think there's no justification in this, bear in mind that a Master's in Computer Science starting his career in Portugal makes around €16k a year (with some luck) and about 4k(5?) of that goes to the IRS and the company has to pay something like 30% of social security on top of that. This loophole escapes social security but not IRS. There is a double CCIE in my company that makes something like €30k yearly after tax. That's the state we're in.
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May 20, 2015 17:34
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orange sky posted:Oh. That loophole is kind of common right now here, see http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/seguranca_social/detalhe/empresas_trocam_salario_por_seguro_mensal_e_fogem_a_tsu.html . Yeah, for now at least, I just don't see it being kept as is.
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May 20, 2015 17:40
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I was just handed a wiki page on Sharepoint and a powerpoint from some company about SharePoint, told to learn it and that we would be deploying it/utilizing it sometime in the future and I would be the point person on it, and if I needed any books they would be purchased for me. Any recommendations?
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May 20, 2015 21:29
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siggy2021 posted:I was just handed a wiki page on Sharepoint and a powerpoint from some company about SharePoint, told to learn it and that we would be deploying it/utilizing it sometime in the future and I would be the point person on it, and if I needed any books they would be purchased for me. Run away.
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May 20, 2015 21:30
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siggy2021 posted:SHAREPOINT Find another job.
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May 20, 2015 21:35
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On the plus I see plenty of Sharepoint job postings around town and they seem to pay a bunch. How else do you get that experience without being forced into it?
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