i can't let this one go by

[rone]

I'm guessing you're "stealth" because you don't have the stones to face the brunt of ridicule over your outrageously low offer of $55k for someone to do *everything* for your office.  You're detailing work that will take, at a minimum, 14 hours a day.  No one person is going to be able to work that much and do a GOOD job at it.

Get a goddamned clue.  Hell, get a six-pack of clues.  Hire enough people for the job and PAY THEM WHAT THEY'RE WORTH.  You need two people: an IT guru and an office manager.  You are NOT going to get anyone worth more than shit for $55k, in either job, let alone both.  Your company is in a crucial stage, and getting an idiot or an incompetent now is going to hamstring your company.  You will regret it, guaranteed.  You should be looking at about $70k for the office manager and $85k for the IT person, MINIMUM.  Don't fucking argue with me!  Just fucking do it.

A dog walker?  You people are fucking insane.  It's not 1998 anymore.  You aren't going to get naïve chumps who will work for stock options.  Get real!

rone

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, if they just wanted an IT guy for $55k, that would be merely laughable (and i've seen those... hell, there was one where they wanted a Director of IT for $55k). It's that they want someone who does IT and someone to manage their office, which, from the sound of it, is a fucking kindergarten. And they think they're SOOOO smart and edgy and i really ought to find out who these people are so i can drive to their office and throw at them all the dog crap i collected from my back yard.

Smart and edgy

[rotojeff.livejournal.com]

And they think they're SOOOO smart and edgy and i really ought to find out who these people are so i can drive to their office and throw at them all the dog crap i collected from my back yard.

This is exactly the vibe I got as well. They remind me of the dot-com that bought our company in '97. Yeah, we're going to vastly underpay you, but you should still feel honored working for us....

Re: Smart and edgy

[velvet-wood.livejournal.com]

off topic, but had to say... that is one _really_ danged cute kid in your icon there.

Re: Smart and edgy

[rotojeff.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I need to get an updated version up there - that one is about nine months old!

Their families are fronting the money, I betcha

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

"We'll give little Jimmy some money so he can actually do something with that computer obscession of his. Running a business will settle him and his friends down."

I would have thought that real venture capitalists would have been burned enough by that crap by now to run the other way when the propeller heads started slinging jargon.

The families would have suggested the salary because that's what they paid their help for their start-ups about 30 or 40 years ago.