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Peace of mind... What a nice feeling...

"Just because everything's changing
doesn't mean it's never been this way before."

Modern-day "bugaw" really sucks

I got a news from one of my QA friends deployed at ADB today and I cannot keep myself from expressing this particular feeling of anger and disappointment despite the fact that it is nearly Christmas...

Years of experience made me wise indeed plus the fact that I keep changing jobs once every two years at the least. I have ups and downs and more disappointments that I already lost count. I had three employers this year... There are things that I have learned that I want to share with my fellow IT friends...

Who said that "Bugaws" only exist in the street? When we say the term "Bugaw" the first thing that comes to our minds is "those who sell prostitutes to clients and in turn have a cut to the earnings"

Well folks, it seems that bugaw now exists in the IT world. Yes, I call them "MODERN-DAY BUGAW" in the form of Agencies, Consultancy Firms, Executive Search. They have a cut in the salaries. Say for example a client pays 100k-150k for a particular position, usually an agency gets 30-50 percent from this. So, the employee only gets 50k or less while the agency gets the most out of it... It really sucks right???

Well for those who receive calls from so-called "headhunters" here are some of the major tips I could keep to avoid getting fooled...

• Ask whether it is a direct hire or not. If its a direct hire than go for it. If not drop it
• If its for a contractual/project-based employment, ask the salary package. If its contractual, dude, ask big sum of money. If its project-based, ask how long wlll the project last.
• If you are choosing between regular and consultancy, go for the regular

IT recruitment is becoming as dirty as prostitution...

A REPOST: A Few Good Programmers

I am browsing through friendster blogs when I stumbled upon this specific "I am Nerd" blog. His/her post is quite cool so I thought I repost it here. I am not taking the credit, just reposting... =) (http://daqwolf.blog.friendster.com/2009/12/a-few-good-programmers/)

This is a portion of dialogue I got from A Few Good Men, this is the famous You Can’t Handle the Truth Rant by Jack Nicholson. Stressed as I am, I came up with a stressed users/programmers version of this:

User: Programmer, did you crash this server?!

Manager: You don’t have to answer that question!

Programmer: I’ll answer the question. You want answers?

User: I think I’m entitled.

Programmer: You want answers?

User: I want the truth!

Programmer:

You can’t handle the truth! We live in a world with faulty applications, and those apps have to be fixed by smart people who program. Who’s gonna do it? You, Mr. User? You, Mr. Manager? I have a greater responsibility than you can fathom. You weep for your little project and you curse our team. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that this project’s failure, while tragic, probably saves programmer’s lives. That my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, probably saves programmers’ lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that server! You need me on that server! We use words like Patch, Deploy, Test. We use these words as the backbone of a job spent programming something. You use them as a punchline! I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who surfs and transacts under the blanket of the very application that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said “Thank you” and gave me a day off. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a keyboard, and program a module. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!

User: Did you crash this server?!

Programmer: I did my job…

User: DID YOU CRASH THIS SERVER?!

Programmer :YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!