Subject:Re: Employment history low points From:stephen -dot- arrants -at- attbi -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 03 Jan 2003 21:22:09 +0000
Well...my experience, having worked for a number of dot-bombs is that the
hiring frenzy brought in many, many unqualified people. Stupendously
unqualified. Scanning "Dreamweaver for Dummies" and a penchant for Manolo
Blahniks doesn't qualify you to be a VP of Customer Experience. But,the dotcoms
were chasing fewer and fewer breathing bodies and they had to have employees.
The Bay Area is chock full o' unemployed/underemployed folk who had big titles
and big salaries at web companies. Some truly talented people are having a hard
time finding full-tim work. There's been some impact on the tech writing market
(Santa Rosa area). I lost a contract to a lower bidder (HTMLHelp and such). Now
this person is posting to lists with questions like "Have you heard of
RoboHelp? Where do I download it?"
Just part of life's rich pagent...
> Moreover, that study is nothing but a laughable outgrowth of late dot.com
> anger. There was this whole pissed off subculture of young folk that got
> bounced out of some dot.com early and were having trouble finding work. Rather
> than apply themselves and keep trying, they just receded into bitterness and
> wanted somebody to blame. Some of them went off on the H1Bs, others went after
> the managers, and then some just became gun-nuts.
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