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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[velvet-wood.livejournal.com]

They won't get an IT guy _alone_ for that. And any IT guy who can _do_ everything they want _may_ be willing to do it for $54K (but not in freaking SanFrancisco where it can cost $1500 a month for an efficiency apartment!) but they sure as hell aren't going to be walking the damned dog and assembling furniture. Frankly, my male could do all they want IT wise and more, and I'd rather pick up cans on the side of the street than let him take such a position... that's a career killer, right there, and rather degrading to boot. Anyone who would do that for that isn't worth that.

Plus, it's just stupid. IT guys are high-paid for a reason. No one else in the place, frequently, can do what they do. Whereas you can hire someone to come in and clean and empty the trashcans and stuff for a tiny fraction of what the hourly pay for the techy is. And in that kind of environment, the tech is _always_ going to have more of his own work to do than he can possibly finish, so every hour he spends wasting time on crap like picking up coffee and emptying the trash costs you time he'd be spending on important things, and therefore costs you money... especially if he's ethical and putting in overtime to try to get _everything_ done. He spends an hour doing untrained labor, then an hour later on doing what he should have been doing at, let's say, $20/hour (cheap as hell, especially there, but let's say he's desperate) so that's $40 the company spent. Hire someone at min. wage and let him do his job, and you've spent $26 instead. Thus these people prove that they are total idiots, doomed to failure, and have no basis for their arrogance and so are likely completely intolerable to work with or for. Ugh.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Just because I thought I recognized the name, I skipped over to your journal, and I see your husband is a denizen of the Monastery.

Nice Frys rant BTW.