Posted Monday 4th February 2008 10:58 GMT
If I remember rightly, the top bods there are on $1 a year. Oh, plus a bonus or three.
It might be a mistake, but not necessarily - though more explanation for prospective evil-non-doers mightn't go amiss. Still, it's got people's attention, that's the first hurdle...
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 11:12 GMT
We all know that american companies are unaware of exchange rates and pay scant attention to our laws.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 11:12 GMT
ahh but assuming the big G aren't exempt to minimum wage regulations, its only 12 minutes a year.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 11:22 GMT
Is that wank-speak for "diamond geezers"?
Camel coat 'n pork pie-hat please.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 11:22 GMT
Canadian companies are just as bad. My wife went on maternity leave and her company stopped paying her. Their excuse......"oh we thought the UK government pays that." (It does but they have to pay her then claim it back from the UK Government.)
Not a lot of fun ringing their HR Director in Canada to go "Oy numb nuts........"
Perhaps the £1 is Googles way of protesting the Yahoo Micro$oft alliance by showing how it will make all the other companies paupers.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 11:42 GMT
google pay their employees in the form of shares in the company, not cash, as you dont pay tax on shares, or something...
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 12:19 GMT
You don't have to pay tax on shares, but you do pay it when you sell them, or else we'd all be paid in shares.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 13:35 GMT
Sometimes US companies get a rude awakening, like deciding to lay off just under a hundred people 'today', only to find that they can't - there's the fun of the month-long consultation period to go through first (and 90 days if it's 100+ people).
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 13:35 GMT
It's still a damn-sight more then what I get paid!
...Where'd I sign up?!
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 14:25 GMT
Google are actually paying £50K for this post, but once the agency has taken their placement fees, there's only a quid left.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 14:48 GMT
Would it be to obvious and not humorous enough to point out that the salary, like most jobs, is what every they choose to pay you based on a bunch of unimportant criteria, that may or may not include experience? If none of the job adverts suggest a salary then there can be no market average for you to claim that is what you were looking for. Finally, it could of course be one of the many useless job posting tools that require a salary be filled in, hence £1.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:05 GMT
Then they realise they have to honour notice periods in contracts, pay remaining leave (which amounted to a mindboggling 4 or 5 weeks a year to start with) and potentially indemnify people. The horror!
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:49 GMT
So after reading several lines of marketing/hr spin-speak, I found my technically aligned brain disconnecting from my eyeballs and trying to sneak out the door.
Did anyone make it to the bottom of that job description and work out what they are actually after?
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 19:15 GMT
Google's planning World Shaping Technologies! What shape do they have in mind? A cube? flat?
Ok. Own up. Who took my coat?
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 20:13 GMT
Peanuts? Luxury ! I have to pay my employer for permission to come to work...
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 20:13 GMT
I managed two lines before dozing off. After I woke up my coffee was cold...
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 21:50 GMT
During The War to End All Wars, the expression "dollar-a-year man" became current, referring to businessmen who served the US government for just that compensation. Now, Google v. Microhoo! may qualify as a World War, but I thought Google was an arm of the Chinese government.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 23:55 GMT
Somebody owes me a dollar for every use of Microhoo!, as I trademarked all iterations of the words "Micro" & "Hoo", per the international fair trade and "I called dibbs, first!", of 2008. As of my writing this, at least 16 other people commented on this very article, and at .50 cents per view, I figure somebody owes me compensation.
Since 16 people have commented, I see at least 8 dollars (USD and in quarters) that should be sent my way. However, since I'm a reasonable man, email me and we can haggle.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 23:55 GMT
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