From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 18 23:10:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DB637B422; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA10083; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:10:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAASAaOPt; Mon Sep 18 23:10:37 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA13633; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:10:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200009190610.XAA13633@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Holidays and other perks of the job [Was: Question about voting] To: marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 06:10:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000913202222.F264@parish> from "Mark Ovens" at Sep 13, 2000 08:22:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > No wonder that when we set up a subsidiary in the US the people who > > > moved out there wanted UK style employment terms (holiday/sick pay and > > > company cars). > > > > Company cars?!? > > Oh yeah, it's something that is pretty much unique to the UK. Even > (relatively) lowly positions on the company ladder get a car as part > of their remuneration package. IBM is offering leases for new employees in the Foster City location, FWIW; I can;t remember if it's 2 years or 3 years, but it's up to $500/month , and anything that isn't spent on car can be spent on gas. Send email to "evan@whistle.com" or "dhw@whistle.com" for details, and tell them I expect to get a cut of the referral bonus. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message