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https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us
The smartest people you will ever work with, doing good work on a seriously popular website, at charity rates of pay ;-)
Par for the course for IT/Sysadmin type jobs. "We expect you to build the hospital while running the emergency room and operating room." They are just being up front about it. There are a few areas where they glossed over it. I will translate: "You need to have a crazy-person level of attention to detail" - We will judge you based on anything you've overlooked, rather than what you've done. "A motivated self-starter…
I wrote a huge long reply to this comment, but by the time I got to the end I realized you were just making cynical, shitty comments because you're upset with them for whatever reason. 'attention to detail' - If I hire someone I want them to have a good attention to detail and not just do whatever works. It's the little things that make the difference between a good server admin and a great one. 'motivated self-start…
Crazy-person level of attention to detail. Not good. Not adequate. It asks for perfection, or lunacy: both of which are abusive to ask for. [1]
They run conventions. Obviously they want their IT guy around to help set everything up. [...] How do you mitigate that?
Try hiring four people to do the job of four people. If they fucked up the wifi because their intern-slave is busy updating the site's CSS, managing the databases, backing up the file server, fixing the wifi, carrying down the booths, making coffee, cleaning the toilets, and has to catch a plane for Kuala Lumpur tomorrow at 6 a. m., guess who's failing at his job. And it's not the guy making the coffee.
'on-call 24/7' - Again, this is normal.
Maybe it's normal, but that doesn't mean those who accept it for a pittance are not suckers.
[1] "Oh, but they're joking, it's hyperbole". I presume the salary is a joke too?
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> I have the opposite reaction to this posting: Penny Arcade are being abundantly clear and transparent about the requirements and drawbacks of the role. Given what the requirements and the drawbacks are, that's just marginally better than not being clear. To give an extreme example to make this clear, I'm not going to be lauded by putting up an ad like: "I'm a old-style racist, and want a black person to serve as my…
You say that like the Penny Arcade job listing is somehow rare. It actually sounds like an accurate description of a lot of startup jobs out there. The only thing unique here is that they're actually being upfront about expectations, instead of letting the new hire find out over time about the true expectations of their role.
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I do run a software company, and I would much rather hire someone with Penny Arcade on their resume than, say, Oracle or something.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Either way, I would think that having Penny Arcade on a resume would be an interesting story but other than that I can't imagine their infrastructure being anything that would help a career. Penny Arcade is probably only slightly above a real estate office for complexity.
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I thought it was standard at startups to offer company stock in exchange for small salaries for the first set of employees. If so, those employees with stock have at least some upside for the risk.
True, but it's generally something like 0.25% equity (almost always <1%). So you're working roughly the same hours for a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the overall equity.
I'd take the extra $10k a year over stock 95% of the time, thanks. Or how about a matching 401(k)? Those are the kinds of compensation that show consistent returns right away, and aren't a roll of the (rigged) dice like employee equity.
I had thought that the general IT/AV person was a dinosaur, but judging from comments here, the position is alive and well. And all too common. Avoid these jobs if you can. If you have the talent and energy to do them, your energies will be dissipated and misdirected, and your talent wasted. You may end up too discouraged to develop it. And you will get old fast.
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At no point does he structure his argument thus: {Khoo, Penny Arcade, anyone} is {immoral, stupid, lacking in some way} therefore they are wrong. Absent that, there is no ad hominem . What you have is a discussion of the personalities involved in the enterprise and a speculation as to their motives, methods and the means available to them. All of that is relevant in answering some questions which need to be asked of…
Actually, the post is {Khoo, Penny Arcade} are shrewd business folks that are looking for a sucker. Don't be the sucker. With lots of exposition on why this author feels they are looking for a sucker. Hell, we don't even really know what the compensation is for this position. Could be they are willing to pay upwards of 200k. Am I just missing where they are saying this will pay terribly? I saw they are not "money ori…
It's pretty upfront about the fact that if working for Penny Arcade isn't a huge plus point for you, you're not the person for the job. That's supposed to be part of your compensation.
I have the opposite reaction to this posting: Penny Arcade are being abundantly clear and transparent about the requirements and drawbacks of the role. It's not exploitation; it's a trade, and Penny Arcade have listed out their terms. Everyone is free, or not, to go along with what they want. The author mixes two messages: (1) the merits of the offer, and (2) the ethics of the offer. The author may be right about (1)…
So to extend your argument-- as long as a worker is fully informed that he may die working in a dangerous factory, it's not unethical to lock the doors and windows? Are you redefining ethics to suit your argument? Consent does not voids ethics. It's only a single component of ethical behavior.
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So if I think I'm above average, I'm good?
From the Wikipedia link: "Although test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd."
A glance at the graph above should explain everything. Though many assume the slope of the "perception graph" is monotonically negative, the slope is actually positive.