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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Plato [mailto:intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:50 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Salary - It's Easy
>
> Here's a good response I got. Original name ripped off to protect the
> innocent.
>
> > Sorry, but it is an outright lie to say that you made "about $55,000"
> > when
> > you in fact made "$32,500." I do not know a hiring manager who would
> > look at
> > it otherwise, and I know quite a few. I would certainly not consider
> > making
> > an offer to a candidate who made such a statement. Using the word
> > "about"
> > does not mask the fact that it's a lie.
>
> No, a lie is to say "I made $53,543 in total compensation" when you have
> no fricking idea what the benefits REALLY cost. That's a lie.
>
> It is not a lie when to tack on qualifiers that indicate a range. You can
> debate the RANGE of that grayness, but that is not a lie.
Andrew--since when is a 69% markup "about"? "About" has to do with
relative measure, not absolute. Never mind what CEOs make. If you
take your car to the mechanic for a brake job, and ask him what it
will cost, and he says "about $200," then you came to pick up the
car and found a bill for $338, would you have a problem with that?
--Guy K. Haas gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
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