[SunRescue] Leasing Employees

[Michael Free]

blahhhh

I worked tech support for clientlogic for 8 months, outsourced for bellsouth
DSL. after moving from the customer help desk to the installer help desk,
researching new equipment, writing at least 5 short guides for the help
database, writing an HTML simulation of the DSL install for mac OS 7/8,
working 85 hours a week, and watching 3 people who asked me what the answers
were on the promotion test get promoted when I took the same test for the
same job, I quit.

It just wasn't worth the eminent death; I'd already gained 20 pounds and
passed out doing 65 on the freeway, awoke to find myself 100' from the back
of a truck stopped on an offramp, plowed off the road and mowed over a
highway sign.

As you can probably tell, tech support left kind of a bad taste in my
mouth....

Mike Free
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Lane <d at x11.net>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Leasing Employees


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>
>The simple answer and the gateway to any job in IT... Technical Support :)
>
>At least, thats the way it is here in the UK.
>
>--
>Dan Lane (d at x11.net)
>
>Web: http://www.logicbomb.net
>PGP Key: http://www.logicbomb.net/pgpkey
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>Michael Free sent the following on Thu, 29 Mar 2001...
>
>> You know, I wouldn't mind trying a travelling job for a while, if for any
>> reason just to burn the travel bug out of me (constant yearning to drive
>> from knoxville to minneapolis...again...the third time...)
>>
>> My only problem with finding any job, _anywhere_ is that it's hard to
even
>> get my foot in the door for an interview when I have nothing to stick on
a
>> resume.
>>
>> I can build a PC from parts in 15 minutes flat....but no A+
>> got basic networking skills, some say advanced.....no certification
>> got digital logic design training, college level......no degree
>> i can change head gaskets and rebuild trannys....no ASE cert
>> tought myself basic, C, fortran, perl, unix script, lalala...no proof
>>
>> I'm stuck :)
>>
>> Mike Free
>>
>> hrmm....maybe the 3.5's and 4.0's in the college english courses are
trying
>> to tell me i'm attempting the wrong professions.... or i need to clean up
my
>> emails :)
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Byrne <chris at chrisbyrne.com>
>> To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:50 AM
>> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Leasing Employees
>>
>>
>> >Welcome to my world Jon my boy ;-)
>> >
>> >I burned out on that after two straight years of being home two, maybe
thre
>> >days a week if I was lucky. I quit, slept for a month, and then started
>> >looking for a 0% travel job.
>> >
>> >If you make it to 24 doing that I'd be surprised, thought there are a
few
>> >hardy souls out there who can do it forever.
>> >
>> >Chris Byrne
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
>> >Behalf Of Jonathan Katz
>> >Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 21:15
>> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Leasing Employees
>> >
>> >
>> >Bill wrote:
>> >> Dude, I am trying SO hard to not make some kind of
>> >> prostitute joke here... 8-)
>> >
>> >I know you are. I know there are about a dozen things
>> >you can say, and I'm just going to dig the hole deeper.
>> >
>> >I freely admit I am whore :) I work for a company which
>> >pimps out my skills to the highest bidder. They take
>> >their cut and I get mine. The company uses their cut, in
>> >part, to train and educate me so I have more skills. My
>> >skillset grows; my knowledge becomes more in-depth and
>> >my skills more finely-tuned. Therefore they can charge
>> >a client more for my services and the services that I
>> >can provider are more specialized (rare) and things a
>> >customer will pay more for.
>> >
>> >The nice part is I've finally found a company that at
>> >least pretends to appreciate the things I do for them
>> >and for various clients-- they sent me on a trip to
>> >Hawaii (but cancelled it due to budget cuts) and give
>> >me quarterly bonuses (analagous to crack rocks?) for
>> >superior performance and keeping my ass in hotel rooms
>> >more than in my own house.
>> >
>> >The scary thing is I'm afraid I'm going to burn out,
>> >and I'm only 22.
>> >
>> >-Jon
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