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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Re: That explains it all.

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

That was really my experience working for a science fiction fan whose grannie gave him $2 million to start an ISP. When the kid was stealing the various bits that weren't nailed down, nobody said anything to then post-s.f. fan management. They fired him for leaving a picture of a handgun in a printer.

I had to drag a Swiss Army knife across Philadelphia to a science fiction meeting because my boss thought having a published writer run errands for him was just so cool, especially in front of other s.f. fans. Since I didn't have a car and public trans didn't connect up very well to where he was from where I was, the head engineer who dropped dead later at work drove me (and was the one who insisted that I had to do this)

And yes, they didn't pay the unemployment tax and pretended it was the fault of the clerical worker who'd been told to use this software to become artificially competant.

When I read this, I wondered if my ex-boss had moved to SF as he's into karate now and would probably describe himself as an athlete.