RE: Nature of Oracle-l has changed

Partially true.

I've seen the IT cutbacks at a company where people almost never leave. Many IT folk have been there 10+ year, a surprising number of them 20+ years.

The flip side to the salary story is something of a paradox.

As a person became more experienced, learned new technologies, and as the company embraced more technologies, the employees at times may not be paid commensurate with their abilities.

I experienced that once. The only way to increase my earning power was to leave. My salary jumped 50% immediately. This has no doubt happened to a number of folks.

The silly side of this is that the former employer then had to hire a replacement at the going rate, or get a contractor in.

Bottom line, they lose an experienced employee, and end up paying as much or more as if they had tried to retain said employee.

Jared

Jared

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:04, David.Schmoldt_at_gazettecommunications.com wrote:
> I think a lot of IT people "abused" the situation during the boom days.
> Company loyalty meant nothing ... we'll go wherever the biggest paychecks
> are. Don't stay anywhere too long. that's for losers. Change jobs if we
> felt the least bit abused and unappreciated. That'll teach them to screw
> with me! In general a holier-than-thou attitude. The times allowed us to
> do that.
>
> But it also means a lot of non-IT people developed an opinion of IT folk as
> not being team players, only out for themselves, not committed to the
> company, etc.
>
> So when the chance comes to cut back, where are you going to look? :-)
>
> Dave
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