Exciting company seeks Linux engineer We thought the Linux bods among you might be interested in the following position in an "exciting and rapidly growing company". The salary's not bad but the bonus situation may leave a bit to be desired... 3rd Line Support Engineer (Linux): £34000 - £37000 per annum + Shit Bonus Lovely. We're obliged to Graham Bosworth for …
Does this mean the bonus is poor, paid in shit, OR I would get a bonus for doing shits while at work?
I only ask because I always drop the kids off* at work - after all, I'm getting paid for it!
*other euphemisms include; going for a Thora, taking a Jedi, having an Ertha, dropping a log, pinching a loaf, creating a danger to shipping, squelching out a long one, losing weight, going to see Trevor, having a think, evacuating Bumville, etc..... etc...
IT? logo 'cos I thought someone would put SH in front of it.
http://www.jobserve.com/Software-Systems-Architect-Cambridge-Contract-W081658CF5CA0FD63.jsjob
Introductory line is
"Spring IT are currently recruiting for a Software Systems Architect to join a lager retail bank bank based in Edinburgh. "
And I'm not sure whether the Cambridge - Edinburgh daily commute is worth it. Especially if you're paid in lager.
> troubleshooting the clients hosting environment, network, IP traffic and sewers.
Plus numerous other mistakes (who grinds your back?) I would fully expect their selection process to be as hit-and-miss as their typping ability
(yes, yes. I know - _typing_)
"The Engineer will also be responsible for Supporting maintaining and troubleshooting the clients hosting environment, network, IP traffic and sewers."
I think that is service above and beyond, get your computers fixed and your toilets unblocked at the same time.
...it all makes sense:
"The Engineer will also be responsible for Supporting maintaining and troubleshooting the clients hosting environment, network, IP traffic and sewers."
If these are bona fide typos and the whole thing isn't a subtle joke, it's a beautiful double-blunder.
Saw one last week, think it was a featured role in an email from Jobsite, the excellent salary was up to £0.
It seems that every man and his dog is a recruiter. Maybe not the dog, as the dog would do a better job.
The average recruiter dumps on jobs websites in a similar way to how the dog would dump on your lawn using the same scattergun approach that the dog uses against walls and lamp posts for its other business.
I wonder if they manually scrape companies' websites for roles that they all then post to every job website under the sun? It's not easy to find a genuine job advert these days unless you have an encyclopedic collection of bookmarks for every company in your sector.
Jobs because he would pay Foxconn assemblers up to £0 if he could.
It's not asking for clearance, so probably not GCHQ.
I would guess FastHosts who are in Gloucester not Cheltenham, but their own website doesn't have the vacancy, although it wouldn't be the first time I've seen a job advertised by an agent that doesn't appear on the company's own external job advert page...
Fasthosts do have "EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS" (sic), GCHQ tend not to.
And Fasthosts would probably use SMTP, POP and IMPA (sic) and run a lot of "clients hosting environment".
This is a bit of a cracker as far as bad adverts go. 3 errors, 1 admittedly might be hard to spot unless you know your IMAP from your POP3...
Agreed - I tend to recuitment agencies somewhere between estate agents and car park wardens on my "worthy of a Christmas card" list.
When I was last searching for a job all of the recruitment agency muppets wanted to know which other companies I'd applied to as well as the position advertised, so that they could try to convince the company to use them instead of their competitors. Needless to say, I didn't volunteer that kind of information.
They'd also blatantly make jobs up simply in order to get your CV on their books... when I first started out looking for jobs, I was naïve enough to fall for this trick.
Thinking about it, the agencies weren't particularly nice to me back then due to a lack of experience - even though I have a degree, which I thought would be enough to get me on the first rung of the ladder. Now that I have lots of experience, however, they're a lot nicer and not just dismissive. Just a shame for them that I've got a good memory and can remember when they were shysters to me.
There is the interesting, or horrible, possibility that the client has installed their fibre optic cable plant using the pre-existing large-bore pipework. I imagine that rat/excrement proof fibre costs a bit more than the usual weatherproof sort, but the installation cost might be considerably lower.
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