Recent content by Zeste_foh

Set your sites on Director of Development and QA. Then you are in management, but still work in the medium you like, and hopefully hire skilled people you enjoy managing.

I just throw her on ignore. It just sucks that ignore doesn"t apply to quotes.

Is your current wage fair, and does it give you means to live the quality of life you want, given that the wage is fair? Employees are mostly replaceable cogs, but that"s a good thing. It means that if you can get a better deal somewhere else, you can easily fit in as a higher paid cog...

Take the best deal you have available. If you find a job that can offer you more, then you don"t bluff a deal, you have a legitimate reason to ask for a counteroffer, or to move somewhere else. I don"t really get how people "bluff" their current job with the prospect of an offer. If your...

Will it go over 9000? Because that would make an awesome photoshop.

And yes, the Titcon voting system is the epitome of a monkey paw. I rue the day it was even created!!! How could we have known of the destructive power???

RL pic of Gutter

FoH Titcon Voting System (FTVS): Be careful how you wield it, for sometimes the power is too great and disqualifies people with too many votes. You need to know your limits with FTVS.

We never got a consensus on if it has 6 at the top, and if 6 is the least severe. But this will have to do.

The TitconT system is stern, but fair. We can"t make exceptions, but we also can"t make exclusions. I voted.

"Never time to do it right; always time to do it twice."

My posts are over 6000. 3000 to go.

Internal recruiters. They took my info and gave it to the actual department people who I would work with who then did the phone screening and interviews. The recruiter might have passed my info to HR, who passed it to the department heads. They didn"t say, and I didn"t ask. I moved from...

Does having these mega corps recruiting me change things? I"m in final rounds of onsite interviews, one I"ve already finished. I didn"t apply at these places.

I really just wanted tips on how to not be strongarmed by a big corp during offer negotiations.