Informal Poll WAS RE: [geeks] Laid off blues

[Ken Hansen]

The right employer is a wonderful thing...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cantrell" <david at cantrell.org.uk>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Informal Poll WAS RE: [geeks] Laid off blues


> again.  Finding a new job then was pretty tough, but I ended up at the
> BBC in June, where I'm a project mangler for Internet Services.  I'm
> working with very clueful people on interesting projects, my manager
> supports me and my colleagues respect my judgement.  I took a considerable
> salary hit to go there, but you can't get much more stable and they
> *really* look after their employees.  All the usual jazz about pensions
> and stuff, 25 days paid holiday, excellent training (I'm going on a Cisco
> course in December because "even if it's not essential for your job it's
> good to spread the knowledge around"), and I can even get cheap flying
> lessons through the employees' club!



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