From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 28 18:11:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038F437B99A for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11025; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:11:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000428191022.04523360@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:11:11 -0600 To: Terry Lambert , damien@tougas.net (Damien Tougas) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD salary formula and a low key sales pitch... Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200004282147.OAA02570@usr08.primenet.com> References: <20000427152650.A384@tougas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:47 PM 4/28/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >Sales pitch: > >If you have been thinking about moving to the bay area... > >IBM has excellent benefits, educational reimbursement for post >graduate level study, sabbaticals, 401K matching, and a sick >leave policy that would permit a person with a doctors note to >miss up to 12 months in any 24 month period, if necessary. > >We (Whistle Communications, Inc.) are a predominantly FreeBSD >shop within IBM. We not only need good people and are willing >to pay for them (stock options are a 1:20 lottery, whereas a >higher base salary can be invested however you like, at whatever >level of risk you like, instead of betting the farm that your >startup will IPO before it burns all its cash), we also need >people to help spread the BSD gospel to the rest of IBM. 8-). All sounds good.... But what if folks want to live someplace really NICE, like Laramie? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message