Required:BA, 5yr IT exp and MCSE; $14hr help desk

Ok this shouldn't bother me because- it's a free country and companies have the right to decide their minimum requirements and what they are willing to pay someone; but seriously I get so extremely annoyed when I see this garbage. To me it seems like employers trying to take advantage of a really tough job market (however I do realize that it is more likely a clueless HR person that posts these)

I feel like I want to call some of these postings and say- So let me see if I understand your posting correctly, you require a 4yr degree, also that the applicant be a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and you require that this person have 5yrs IT experience- and for all this you want to pay this person the same amount that you are paying the receptionist that sits at the front desk answering the phones and filing her nails all day, with just a high school diploma?
Even if such a person existed I don't think any employer would even want someone like that- if I were a hiring manager I would be wondering why someone with 4yr degree, MCSE and 5yrs exp woul be willing to take a help desk job for $14 an hr (I don't think they would really be the most motivated/ambitious person around- be careful what you wish for)

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Iristheangel

oh... and here:
Computer Crimes laws - Information on the law about Computer Crimes

Silentsoul

Iristheangel wrote: »

The SF systems administrator did it on purpose. He actually went out of his way to lock every other system administrator for San Francisco out.

And to the other poster, it IS illegal. The SF systems administrator was charged with "felony computer network tampering." If you leave a company and you didn't disclose the admin passwords or access to management on the way out the door and refuse to do so, you can and most likely be facing some very seriously felony charges.

I did not say he did not do it on purpose, i said he did not do it to be an ass. Read a couple of the stories, the guy did it to keep some idiot from wrecking the network, a very complex network. Not saying what he did was right or wrong, but it didn't look malicious.

Iristheangel

Silentsoul wrote: »

I did not say he did not do it on purpose, i said he did not do it to be an ass. Read a couple of the stories, the guy did it to keep some idiot from wrecking the network, a very complex network. Not saying what he did was right or wrong, but it didn't look malicious.

eh, either way, our point is the same. If you lock a company out of their own network on the way out the door, then it's going to legally be very bad for you. That's the point I think we were both trying to make to that other poster

earweed

Locking a company out would not only be illegal but career suicide. Even if they didn't press charges you would be burning a lot of bridges (behind you and in front of you if word got out what you did)

Stuppored

earweed wrote: »

Locking a company out would not only be illegal but career suicide. Even if they didn't press charges you would be burning a lot of bridges (behind you and in front of you if word got out what you did)

I thought it would be illegal. But I swear I've heard stories of people leaving postions and doing exactly that. And all they became were stories... ones where charges/prosecution were never brought up. Atleast I got nearly a page of people talking about the subject of career ethics

earweed

Stuppored wrote: »

I thought it would be illegal. But I swear I've heard stories of people leaving postions and doing exactly that. And all they became were stories... ones where charges/prosecution were never brought up. Atleast I got nearly a page of people talking about the subject of career ethics

True there. Ethically doing something like that is REALLY BAD.