I do look around. Every other billboard seems to be
for an IT pimp these days. I wonder why that is. :)
Nuthin' wrong with profitability in the extreme, I reckon!
The way I see it, the difference is that if, say, H.A.L.
hires a mainframe service tech for a 50k salary, sends
him on-site, and bills a customer for, say, 150 an hour,
I can understand it because H.A.L. provides a LOT of value
in terms of infrastructure (documentation, warehouses around
the country full of parts waiting to be overnighted, communications,
ancillary personnel, yada yada yada) to the process--infrastructure
without which the service tech could not function.
Compare this to the infrastructure of a pimp: two fax machines.
D
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Lucas Vogel wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:58:27 -0800
> From: Lucas Vogel
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: "'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'"
> Subject: RE: [azipa] We need Help! (fwd)
>
> I used to share your sentiments; that is, until I worked as a permanent
> employee for some of the different companies in the valley(to include a
> company that presents itself on this mailing list). The practice of billing
> a significant amount while paying the person doing the work a much smaller
> sum is a very common business practice. Look around at most, if not all
> companies doing business today.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Taylor [mailto:dtaylor@www.dssolutions.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 6:48 PM
> To: quatsch
> Subject: Re: [azipa] We need Help! (fwd)
>
>
>
> > Because we might have some people on the list who don't mind being whored
> > out :).
>
> Yeah, it always starts out that way. Then after awhile the ho
> discovers that she's being billed out by the two fax machine
> (connected back-to-back; one receives the timesheet, the other
> transmits the invoice) pimp at 150 an hour to cover her 50k
> salary and fax expenses.
>
>
> D
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, der.hans wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:28:02 -0700 (MST)
> > From: "der.hans"
> > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > To: quatsch
> > Subject: Re: [azipa] We need Help! (fwd)
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, D. Taylor wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > ...(no agencies or recruiters, please)...
> > >
> > > Like, duh.
> > >
> > > Out of curiousity, how is this posting (a pimp
> > > seeking ho's) not spam?
> >
> > Because we might have some people on the list who don't mind being whored
> > out :).
> >
> > If the consensus agrees with you I will try to be a bit more
> > discriminating in the postings I forward over to PLUG. To be honest, AZIPA
> > is not a tech list (at least not the way most of us view tech :), so keep
> > that in mind when viewing posts from that list. That's part of the reason
> > I don't clean up the subject or headers.
> >
> > > The job postings for companies looking to hire
> > > someone with *nix experience to work DIRECTLY
> > > for said company I can appreciate. But pimps
> > > casting nets for ho's?
> >
> > At least they're advertising for Linux. Sucks to be in the kink no one
> > wants ;-).
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> > --
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> > # der.hans@LuftHans.com www.excelco.com #
> > # http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ #
> > # I'm not anti-social, I'm pro-individual. - der.hans #
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> >
> >
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