Randall
Junior Member
So, in December when I had my moment with my current digs, I registered on all the job portals, including the one that gets paid for advertising and free bouncers on Mybroadband.co.za i.e. CareerJunction
There was a job on there for an electronic engineering position, no salary mentioned *remember that detail
So last month the recruiter gets back to me and I went for an interview the other day.. and its one of those companies that Altron sold recently.
I went for the interview, and it was pretty meh, I wasn't too impressed, considering their lack of test equipment and how sad and depressed their staff seemed.
So the day after they were supposed to revert back with feedback, the fun and games start with the recruiter. The recruiter is not very bright and I say this in a nice way, she is thicker than pigshit, and can't even speak English properly. She tells me they want to "phone me" with a proposal and cannot put it on e-mail because oh noez, dis mos "n staatsgeheim"
I am already pissed off because I mean what the fuck, I am used to dealing with recruiters I know how this shit works. A system was down at work so I couldn't take her calls and I get her ranting and bitching on email about why they needed to call me etc... and "goodness changing careers is a difficult thing yo (did she ever actually read my CV I wonder).
So the next day I phoned the CEO of that company myself... and he doesn't say much except they really need my skills and want me to consult for them... I put 2 and 2 together... they cannot afford my salary.
I woke up this morning to see an e-mail in my inbox from Careerjunction, that same position, word-for-word verbatim, was advertised again, except now, the salary is clearly indicated as between R25,000 and R25,001 CTC per month.
Just want you folks to be aware of why so many of us left engineering and moved into IT. In fact, like I told my wife today I'd rather then just go off, sit and study my Java, my Python, Spring, REST and all that kak that I find boring because it at least puts food on the table, pays well for CUD, and allows me to have a decent gaming rig. Doing what I love, will put us in poverty. Rather just go to therapy every so often and rant at the psychiatrist about all the juniors who don't even know how to do dependency injection or pass-by-reference than have to live from hand-to-mouth
Why not rather tell me. "You have the skills but sorry we cannot afford your salary" instead of wasting my time?
There was a job on there for an electronic engineering position, no salary mentioned *remember that detail
So last month the recruiter gets back to me and I went for an interview the other day.. and its one of those companies that Altron sold recently.
I went for the interview, and it was pretty meh, I wasn't too impressed, considering their lack of test equipment and how sad and depressed their staff seemed.
So the day after they were supposed to revert back with feedback, the fun and games start with the recruiter. The recruiter is not very bright and I say this in a nice way, she is thicker than pigshit, and can't even speak English properly. She tells me they want to "phone me" with a proposal and cannot put it on e-mail because oh noez, dis mos "n staatsgeheim"
I am already pissed off because I mean what the fuck, I am used to dealing with recruiters I know how this shit works. A system was down at work so I couldn't take her calls and I get her ranting and bitching on email about why they needed to call me etc... and "goodness changing careers is a difficult thing yo (did she ever actually read my CV I wonder).
So the next day I phoned the CEO of that company myself... and he doesn't say much except they really need my skills and want me to consult for them... I put 2 and 2 together... they cannot afford my salary.
I woke up this morning to see an e-mail in my inbox from Careerjunction, that same position, word-for-word verbatim, was advertised again, except now, the salary is clearly indicated as between R25,000 and R25,001 CTC per month.
Just want you folks to be aware of why so many of us left engineering and moved into IT. In fact, like I told my wife today I'd rather then just go off, sit and study my Java, my Python, Spring, REST and all that kak that I find boring because it at least puts food on the table, pays well for CUD, and allows me to have a decent gaming rig. Doing what I love, will put us in poverty. Rather just go to therapy every so often and rant at the psychiatrist about all the juniors who don't even know how to do dependency injection or pass-by-reference than have to live from hand-to-mouth
Why not rather tell me. "You have the skills but sorry we cannot afford your salary" instead of wasting my time?
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