[Info-vax] FWIW: HP to spin off PSG?

[John Wallace]

On Aug 24, 1:27 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> John Wallace wrote:
> > Has anyone considered recruiting in currently non-conventional places?
> > E.g. not New England, not India. In Olde England I believe Reading,
> > Basingstoke, Livingstone [1], and maybe even Bristol and Warrington
> > had some relevant skills at one time.
>
> That is tantamount to stating that VMS expertise is already hard to get
> and that you must find retired folks who worked at the old DEC
> facilities and pay for their move to your country.
>
> Much easier to get Linux and hire any student fresh out of school.

"you must find retired folks who worked at the old DEC facilities and
pay for their move to your country."

That's two, maybe three, non sequiturs in one line, JF, well done!

Folks in this picture may not be retired, they may just be working on
different things than they have been in the past. They will still have
lots of valuable experience, ideally by now multi-platform experience,
probably unlike the folk straight out of college.

Oddly enough these experienced folk may not even be much more
expensive than folk straight out of college; the college graduate
market is quite competitive (at least in the UK), and if you don't pay
the going rate nobody joins, whereas there are plenty of UK HR
departments relying on inertia to retain employees with ten, twenty,
thirty years experience. This leads to the ridiculous situation where
the college graduates in engineering industries are paid (say) £25-30K
and someone with twenty years experience may well be lucky to get
£35K. Obviously different rules apply for those willing to work in the
City while it lasts.

These folks may or may not have worked at old DEC facilities (though
those might well be good places to start looking).

There's an Internet now, why would anyone have to move to the same
country as the company whose products they are developing or
supporting, or even testing ordocumenting (do those still happen?), or
whatever? Other than the "I want my staff to be near my office, so I
can see them" ridiculousness which sadly does still exist.