Reply #10: As a job applicant in the IT field: [View All]

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

I have a suggestion for you HR types:

When I read the necessary qualifications for a job, and then see the money being offered, I really have to chuckle. I see so many that require a BS in Computer Science, which is not exactly appropriate for being a desktop support monkey, server dude or dudetta or average web weenie. I see a raft of required certs that no human I know, in IT(and I know more than a few) has or has enough lifetime to ever get. And the money being offered, in too many cases, is simply risable. Benefits? BWAHAHAHA. Besides, they are all contractor jobs, which even this Department of Labor has stated misuse the rules and intent of contractor job laws: you go in, get treated like an employee, with none of the benefits of full employment. Then you get chucked out the door. Rinse and repeat, ad nauseum.

I am not alone when I look at these listings and think "H1-B dodge". It's pretty much considered that a large percentage of IT job listings are just that, and thus, unethical and even skirting the spirit and intent of the law.

There is a lot of resentment out there because of this and I thought you guys need to know it.

One other thing: I signed an agreement, with an employment agency, the other day, for drug testing. Since I use neither ETOH or recreational drugs, just those prescribed to me by a doctor, I am not worried about it. But in there, they stated I was allowing them to take a tissue sample. WTF? Is cutting tissue out of people the new "labor/management relations"?

And yes, it made me angry. Things that go way too far tend to get me exercised. As is appropriate, methinks.