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So wrote the HR head of hiring (no, not a recruiter, but the actual HR person of the company) when I turned down their employment offer. They were at least $20K shy of the industry average in this area and were "only" (IMO) offering a high deductible health care package and vestment in a few thousand shares of stock that might sell at $30-$40 / share if the company ever went public or got bought out. Company (~7 years old) is currently not profitable and is dependent on angel funding.
And they have to balls to tell me that they disappointed. Well, I guess they ought to be, if they were hoping to fill a senior software engineer position for what they were offering. Yeah, I can see their perspective. 
Marc
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Quote: currently not profitable and is dependent on angel funding
Don't worry, they will soon be joining the angels in that special corner of heaven reserved for failed companies that were run by idiots! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I love to turn down offers of employment for companies that try to shaft me on the pay.
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: I love to turn down offers of employment for companies that try to shaft me on the pay.
It's actually really hard for me to say "no", especially after meeting the other devs, which seemed like a really smart bunch. But I just couldn't get away from the fact that the job itself didn't really excite me -- it's really high level geeky stuff, which I would have jumped on in my 20's, but nowadays I look to look past the tech and also consider the bigger picture in terms of who their clients are, in this case big financial institutions, thieves all of them.
Marc
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I live in Schenectady county. this company's name doesn't start with an "A" does it?
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Won't say publicly, bad form
(but I did send you a direct reply)
Marc
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The way they phrased that, I'd be worried about my kneecaps.
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harold aptroot wrote: The way they phrased that, I'd be worried about my kneecaps.
That was my first thought too -- there was a certain sinister "we're going to make sure you never get another job" quality to it, but heck, one can read a lot between the lines in an email.
Marc
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I've decided to turn down your offer but considering the package your offering my baby sitter is interested, shall I send details?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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I don't see your issue?
Of course they were disappointed - they wanted to employ you, you turned them down?
Would you prefer them to say "Thank God!"?
And $20k shy of the average? well, someone's got to be below average, that's what makes an average an average
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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but the low ballers tend to be existing staff who for whatever reason wont leave not new recruits or bull artists that cant do the job anyway
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Isn't crappy pay and a fistful of lottery ticketsstock options that could be worth millions (but are almost certainly not worth their weight in toilet paper) the standard compensation for startups?  
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I Was working on a remote machine (with remove-desktop) and turned off the network on the remote machine.
That did not end well.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I found out that rebooting the remote machine also has some implications
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I don't get it, I do reboots of remote machines I later again log into on a daily basis. Doing a shutdown can be more problematic unless you have machines with iLO[^].
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I should have added that I was talking about TeamViewer. (I don't work in a corporate environment.)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Ever tried to take over your own machine from an external machine that you took over from your own machine?
A colleague once tried it with TeamViewer, guess how that ended
Clickety...[^]
modified 28-May-15 14:53pm.
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Sander Rossel wrote: A colleague once tried it with TeamViewer, guess how that ended
Ah, so that explains why the Internet is so slow. It's still unraveling from an infinite recursion mirror.
Marc
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I tried to compose a reply that won't hurt your feelings - but I gave up! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Maximilien wrote: with remove-desktop
So, how exactly does that work remotely? Is there a robot arm that will "remove" the desktop?
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Great read, to be shared with family and friends...but I'm not giving up my dark chocolate.
cat fud heer
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