| Halting State |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|07:38 pm] |
some of my favorite quotes from Halting State
"I don't understand these folks' tongue, Liz. They're space aliens from the planet IT industry. Maybe someone from ICE can talk techie to them? It's like the joke about the post-modernist gangster who make you an offer ye cann nderstand."
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"So you open your mouth and listen to yourself say, 'I want eight thousand a day. Plus expenses.' This is the polite, industry-standard way of saying 'piss of, I'm not interested.' You did the math over your morning coffee: You want to earn 100K a year, what with those bonuses you've been pulling on top of your salary. (Besides, a euro doesn't buy what it used to.) There are 250 working days in a year, and a constractor works for roughly 40 per centof hte time, so you need to charge yourself out at 2.5 times your payroll rate, or 1000 a day in order to meet your target. Not interested in the job? Pitch unrealistically high. You never know...
'Done,' says Mr. Pin-Stripe, staring at you expressionlessly. And it is at that point that you realize you are well and truly fucked.' |
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