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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[haineux.livejournal.com]

"Meta-Cognitive" literally means "thinking about thinking."

It is a term used by behavioral psychologists to refer to an activity people rarely do. For instance, if you ask someone "how did you come up with that answer," >90% of the time, the person will make up an explanation that has little to do with how they actually did it. The remaining 1-10% of the time, the thoughtful ones will actually think about how they thought up the idea.

The other common use of the term was in the Artificial Intelligence fad a while back. AI researchers would often say they were thinking about thinking. Of course, they were not. They were making up stories about how they imagine thinking happens, and then pretending that their super-wonderful program would magically figure it out even if they couldn't themselves.

(OK, there were a few exceptions, but I personally do not think Doug Hofstadter was one of them. He was writing funny essays and books where this meta-cognition was supposedly taking place. Goedel Escher Bach is a good book full of entertaining stories, and it's reall ygood at explaining the Incompleteness Theorem.)

In this case here, I suspect the term is being conflated with "Meta-cranial inversion" -- ie these people, if they bit down hard, would bite their own necks off because that's JUST HOW FAR they've got their heads up their asses....

I actually can think of a couple of people I know who would take this job for $55K per year -- as long as one of the slyly-hinted "non-standard perks" is all the FDA-certified drug-grade cocaine and meth-amphetamine they could consume.

On the other hand, knowing these pals of mine, as soon as the company slipped them some of that baby-laxitive-cut shit, they'd go get a machete and carve up the company dog, starting at the foot pads and working up, as a gentle reminder that their employment was not "at will" of the employer.

Seriously, I wish you would find out who these people are, and change their craigslist ad to mention their address, phone, and emails. These employers are REALLY in need of a learning experience.

Also, I think I'll use "Do you LIKE to be woken up at 3 AM to fix an emergency?" as an interview question. Anyone who says "yes" gets 15 seconds to convince me that they were lying through their teeth or I call security and have them escort this trespasser the hell off company property.