6 Jul
2015
6 Jul
'15
9:41 a.m.
Patrick,
I write this not for dissecting your offer or with any bad intentions
at all. You had complained that no one seems to be interested in your
job offer. All I want is to help you understand the possible
shortcomings of your offer. That's all.
2015-07-06 8:08 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
Once again this seems to be a major disparity between Germans and the rest
of Europe. In the rest of Europe any job with a salary and a high
recommendation would be considered a no brainer.
Yes, sure Germany's job market is quite better than in most (all?)
other European countries. That'S pretty obvious, isn't it?
Therefore, "a salary" alone is not enough if you want qualified
people. A *good* salary is what people want and qualified people
usually get.
And you should have grasped already that your job offer does not
comply with the standards we have here for job offers. It is obscure,
dubious an the complete opposite of a "high recommendation". That's
the issue!
However if you had your own car and you liked driving it why would you
want to use a company car?
Costs, their calculability and your liquidity! If you get a company
car *everything* is covered. Every repair, the fuel, insurance etc.
You just have to pay income taxes on 1% of the car's resell list price
each year. So the cost of using a company car is absolutely
predictable. Compare this to the situation in which you use your own
car for your job even if you get a bit more money:
* You have to pay each repair, new tires etc.
* You can't even set those costs off against tax liability if your
using your private car
* What if the car breaks completely? Will you have to pay for a new
one just for keeping your job?
* You bind a lot of cash in an object that loses value
=> you take all the risk that your employer should take if you need a
car for doing the job. The actual price of using the car is not
predictable.
FYI, previous persons who had similar roles in other
parts of Europe had
very nice sports cars which they drove from place to place. They were not
company cars and they were definitely not complaining about their
salaries.
The fiscal handling of company cars is very different in other
European countries as far as I know.
The simple truth is that giving away too much
information on this list is
just not viable. You have already seen the "uber" negative response with a
choice selection of information.
You got this responses not beacuse of the "choice selection of
information" you gave but mainly because of the large selection of
information that's missing. Information you would usually expect to
see before your applying on a job offer. Moreover, as I was trying to
tell you for a while, the information you gave just didn't seem
attractive for a couple of reasons to qualified people here in
Germany.
No imagine how bad it will be if I
actually give away all the details.
Sorry for the pun, but how bad can that job be if you think you would
get negative responses if we knew what it is? I don't understand this.
People round here find it enjoyable to
spend their time dissecting and criticizing every single Plank Length of
anything they perceive as not meeting their agenda.
On the contrary, it's not enjoyable at all. As I mentioned above, all
I try to do is help you understand why your job offer might not be as
attractive as you think so that you might rephrase it in a proper way.
Kind regards,
Felix
6 Jul
6 Jul
12:02 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Mon, July 6, 2015 5:41 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
Patrick,
I write this not for dissecting your offer or with any bad intentions
at all. You had complained that no one seems to be interested in your
job offer. All I want is to help you understand the possible
shortcomings of your offer. That's all.
2015-07-06 8:08 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
Given the amount of negativity that this one has generated from some
members of the list I don't really feel comfortable sharing more info
publicly. I'm sure y'all can appreciate that ;-)
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Once again this seems to be a major disparity between Germans and the
rest
of Europe. In the rest of Europe any job with a salary and a high
recommendation would be considered a no brainer.
Yes, sure Germany's job market is quite better than in most (all?)
other European countries. That'S pretty obvious, isn't it?
Therefore, "a salary" alone is not enough if you want qualified
people. A *good* salary is what people want and qualified people
usually get.
And you should have grasped already that your job offer does not
comply with the standards we have here for job offers. It is obscure,
dubious an the complete opposite of a "high recommendation". That's
the issue!
However if you had your own car and you liked driving it why would you
want to use a company car?
Costs, their calculability and your liquidity! If you get a company
car *everything* is covered. Every repair, the fuel, insurance etc.
You just have to pay income taxes on 1% of the car's resell list price
each year. So the cost of using a company car is absolutely
predictable. Compare this to the situation in which you use your own
car for your job even if you get a bit more money:
* You have to pay each repair, new tires etc.
* You can't even set those costs off against tax liability if your
using your private car
* What if the car breaks completely? Will you have to pay for a new
one just for keeping your job?
* You bind a lot of cash in an object that loses value
=> you take all the risk that your employer should take if you need a
car for doing the job. The actual price of using the car is not
predictable.
FYI, previous persons who had similar roles in
other parts of Europe had
very nice sports cars which they drove from place to place. They were
not
company cars and they were definitely not complaining about their
salaries.
The fiscal handling of company cars is very different in other
European countries as far as I know.
The simple truth is that giving away too much
information on this list
is
just not viable. You have already seen the "uber" negative response with
a
choice selection of information.
You got this responses not beacuse of the "choice selection of
information" you gave but mainly because of the large selection of
information that's missing. Information you would usually expect to
see before your applying on a job offer. Moreover, as I was trying to
tell you for a while, the information you gave just didn't seem
attractive for a couple of reasons to qualified people here in
Germany.
No imagine how bad it will be if I
actually give away all the details.
Sorry for the pun, but how bad can that job be if you think you would
get negative responses if we knew what it is? I don't understand this.
People round here find it enjoyable to
spend their time dissecting and criticizing every single Plank Length of
anything they perceive as not meeting their agenda.
On the contrary, it's not enjoyable at all. As I mentioned above, all
I try to do is help you understand why your job offer might not be as
attractive as you think so that you might rephrase it in a proper way.
12:42 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German members
of LAU quite obviously don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
Here's another offer: You can send me a private email with all the
information you'd be willing to give and I'll look over it to tell you
what you *should* change to attract possible candidates.
3:39 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Mon, July 6, 2015 8:42 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
Apparently it's something to do with one or all of these three main reasons.
1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in new jobs for themselves
or their friends
2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
3: Some members don't like my personality so don't want to take it any
further
I estimate that leaves approximately 200 or so Germans or people who live
in Germany on the list who have not voiced an opinion. I think there is a
fair chance that at least one of them will be suitable for the role or
know someone who is. If only 5 of them are genuinely interested that would
be a pretty good selection to choose from.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want to
go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German members
of LAU quite obviously don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
4:36 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
Hi,
Just in case anyone is still interested and you haven't been scared off by
all the negativity emanating from the list, I have spoken with my contacts
and they have agreed that it's no problem to provide a company vehicle if
requested.
So, If you are looking for an interesting salaried job working with Linux
(audio) and audio/multimedia technology which also has the opportunity for
driving around Germany to interesting locations with the option of a
company vehicle which comes highly recommended by a long time LAU/LAD
contributor then this may just be the one for you.
I'm not sure there is much more that can be said in public on this list
but feel free to keep flinging ideas my way. Do you need coffee and
cigarettes too or donuts and sausages? IIUC Germans like to boil your
sausages right? Maybe we can include a portable broiler in the vehicle for
times when you need a quick break? Or maybe we should have an allowance
for monthly beer expenses. I here that you Germans are fond of beer. So
driving the company car at high speed on the autobahn while drinking
copious amounts of free beer and eating boiled sausages should be a pretty
tempting deal right?
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
On Mon, July 6, 2015 11:39 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On Mon, July 6, 2015 8:42 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
Apparently it's something to do with one or all of these three main
reasons.
1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in new jobs for themselves
or their friends
2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
3: Some members don't like my personality so don't want to take it any
further
I estimate that leaves approximately 200 or so Germans or people who live
in Germany on the list who have not voiced an opinion. I think there is a
fair chance that at least one of them will be suitable for the role or
know someone who is. If only 5 of them are genuinely interested that would
be a pretty good selection to choose from.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want to
go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German members
of LAU quite obviously don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
7:06 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
Wow! pretty far from ANPE or pole emploi, work in Germany seems much more sexy than Frau
Merkel!!!
De : Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
À : linux-audio-user <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>
Envoyé le : Lundi 6 juillet 2015 16h36
Objet : Re: [LAU] Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
Hi,
Just in case anyone is still interested and you haven't been scared off by
all the negativity emanating from the list, I have spoken with my contacts
and they have agreed that it's no problem to provide a company vehicle if
requested.
So, If you are looking for an interesting salaried job working with Linux
(audio) and audio/multimedia technology which also has the opportunity for
driving around Germany to interesting locations with the option of a
company vehicle which comes highly recommended by a long time LAU/LAD
contributor then this may just be the one for you.
I'm not sure there is much more that can be said in public on this list
but feel free to keep flinging ideas my way. Do you need coffee and
cigarettes too or donuts and sausages? IIUC Germans like to boil your
sausages right? Maybe we can include a portable broiler in the vehicle for
times when you need a quick break? Or maybe we should have an allowance
for monthly beer expenses. I here that you Germans are fond of beer. So
driving the company car at high speed on the autobahn while drinking
copious amounts of free beer and eating boiled sausages should be a pretty
tempting deal right?
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
On Mon, July 6, 2015 11:39 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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On Mon, July 6, 2015 8:42 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
Apparently it's something to do with one or all of these three main
reasons.
1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in new jobs for themselves
or their friends
2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
3: Some members don't like my personality so don't want to take it any
further
I estimate that leaves approximately 200 or so Germans or people who live
in Germany on the list who have not voiced an opinion. I think there is a
fair chance that at least one of them will be suitable for the role or
know someone who is. If only 5 of them are genuinely interested that would
be a pretty good selection to choose from.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want to
go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German members
of LAU quite obviously don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
7:33 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:06:09 +0000 (UTC), fred wrote:
work in Germany seems much more sexy than Frau
Merkel!!!
http://img.welt.de/img/kultur/crop100958276/9050198264-ci3x2l-w780/Merkel-n…
8 Jul
8 Jul
12:54 a.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 19:33:36 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:06:09 +0000 (UTC), fred wrote:
>work in Germany seems much more sexy than Frau Merkel!!!
Outer Limits ?
(Die unbekannte Dimension)
1:18 a.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
Is that image photoshopped, or did Merkel really flash that cleavage ?
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
10:25 a.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 23:18:26 +0000 (UTC), Ivan K wrote:
Is that image photoshopped, or did Merkel really flash
that cleavage ?
[1]
Nobody would do this, everybody would prefer to gimp her a burqa or to
completely raze her out. She's e.g. too sexy for Orthodox Jews, even
when wearing closes that are similar to a burqa [2].
[1]
"Plunging Neckline: Merkel 'Surprised' by Attention to Low-Cut Dress
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wore a low-cut dress to the opening of
the Oslo Opera House on Saturday. The media's eager focus 'surprised'
-- though perhaps did not amuse -- her." -
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/plunging-neckline-merkel-surpri…
[2]
"A Jewish newspaper has photoshopped Angela Merkel out of this Charlie
Hebdo march" -
http://www.thejournal.ie/angela-merkel-paris-rally-1878959-Jan2015/
10:26 a.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 23:18:26 +0000 (UTC), Ivan K wrote:
Is that image photoshopped, or did Merkel really flash
that
cleavage ?
[1]
Nobody would do this, everybody would prefer to gimp her a burqa or to
completely raze her out. She's e.g. too sexy for Orthodox Jews, even
when wearing closes that are similar to a burqa [2].
[1]
"Plunging Neckline: Merkel 'Surprised' by Attention to Low-Cut Dress
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wore a low-cut dress to the opening of
the Oslo Opera House on Saturday. The media's eager focus 'surprised'
-- though perhaps did not amuse -- her." -
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/plunging-neckline-merkel-surpri…
[2]
"A Jewish newspaper has photoshopped Angela Merkel out of this Charlie
Hebdo march" -
http://www.thejournal.ie/angela-merkel-paris-rally-1878959-Jan2015/
12:24 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:26:12 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
[2]
"A Jewish newspaper has photoshopped Angela Merkel out of this Charlie
Hebdo march" -
http://www.thejournal.ie/angela-merkel-paris-rally-1878959-Jan2015/
Move on Kim Jong Un ! This is democracy at work !
(Kim Jong Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre, for that matter)
Anyone got the DPRK national anthem in gsequencer format ?
12:54 p.m.
New subject: MIDI files played by Gsequencer - Was: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 06:24:45 -0400, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
Anyone got the DPRK national anthem in gsequencer
format ?
Regarding [1] it provides midi2xml, so you cold test if [2] really is
their national anthem.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/+GsequencerOrg001/posts
[2]
http://www.download-midi.com/midi_8979_national-anthem-north-korea.html
6:45 p.m.
New subject: MIDI files played by Gsequencer - Was: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
Hi Ralf
Is something going wrong? Did you know about reverse mapping ability in
GSequencer or invert tool?
If you're using limited soundfont2, please verify notation shift ...
cheers,
Joël
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net>
wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 06:24:45 -0400,
jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
Anyone got the DPRK national anthem in gsequencer
format ?
Regarding [1] it provides midi2xml, so you cold test if [2] really is
their national anthem.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/+GsequencerOrg001/posts
[2]
http://www.download-midi.com/midi_8979_national-anthem-north-korea.html
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9 Jul
9 Jul
1:05 p.m.
New subject: MIDI files played by Gsequencer - Was: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:45:18 +0200, Joël Krähemann wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Hi Joël,
since I wondered about the wording "gsequencer format" and I don't have
GSequencer installed yet, I searched the Internet for information how to
play MIDI files. IOW I didn't use GSequencer myself, but likely will
test it.
Regards,
Ralf
--
PS: There are a lot of economics, banking, global markets and
conspiracy theories discussion boards for those who want to continue
discussing delusions of lunacy about the European job market and
related issues. Germany is a rich nation, but with much, too much
poverty, the middle class all over Europe shrinked from the 70s to
toady. I guess we made clear that even desperate jobless Germans are not
interested in dubious job offers and that everybody else from the EU is
allowed to work in Germany too.
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 06:24:45 -0400,
jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
Is
something going wrong? Did you know about reverse mapping ability in
GSequencer or invert tool?
If you're using limited soundfont2, please verify notation shift ... Anyone got the DPRK national anthem in gsequencer
format ?
Regarding [1] it provides midi2xml, so you cold test if [2] really is
their national anthem.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/+GsequencerOrg001/posts
[2]
http://www.download-midi.com/midi_8979_national-anthem-north-korea.html
14 Jul
14 Jul
8:52 p.m.
New subject: MIDI files played by Gsequencer - Was: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
Hi Ralf
It is highly recommended to use latest source or binary distribution of
GSequencer latest is for now v0.5.3 which
fixes recent introduced dead-locks and a memory leak caused by not freed
config values retrieved.
http://gsequencer.org/download.html
MIDI file conversion is covered by:
http://gsequencer.org/help-en.html
NOTE the XSL file is relatively new and I didn't have a chance to view at
it in depth
best regards,
Joël
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net>
wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:45:18 +0200, Joël Krähemann
wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
Hi Joël,
since I wondered about the wording "gsequencer format" and I don't have
GSequencer installed yet, I searched the Internet for information how to
play MIDI files. IOW I didn't use GSequencer myself, but likely will
test it.
Regards,
Ralf
--
PS: There are a lot of economics, banking, global markets and
conspiracy theories discussion boards for those who want to continue
discussing delusions of lunacy about the European job market and
related issues. Germany is a rich nation, but with much, too much
poverty, the middle class all over Europe shrinked from the 70s to
toady. I guess we made clear that even desperate jobless Germans are not
interested in dubious job offers and that everybody else from the EU is
allowed to work in Germany too.
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On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 06:24:45 -0400,
jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
Is
something going wrong? Did you know about reverse mapping ability in
GSequencer or invert tool?
If you're using limited soundfont2, please verify notation shift ... Anyone got the DPRK national anthem in gsequencer
format ?
Regarding [1] it provides midi2xml, so you cold test if [2] really is
their national anthem.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/+GsequencerOrg001/posts
[2]
http://www.download-midi.com/midi_8979_national-anthem-north-korea.html 
7 Jul
7 Jul
3:06 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
Patrick Shirkey:
I'm not sure there is much more that can be said in public on this
list but feel free to keep flinging ideas my way. Do you need coffee
and cigarettes too or donuts and sausages? IIUC Germans like to boil
your sausages right? Maybe we can include a portable broiler in the
vehicle for times when you need a quick break? Or maybe we should have
an allowance for monthly beer expenses. I here that you Germans are
fond of beer. So driving the company car at high speed on the autobahn
while drinking copious amounts of free beer and eating boiled sausages
should be a pretty tempting deal right?
Stephen Stubbs:
Were you a miner in a previous career? You have an amazing aptitude
for digging holes deeper. GRIN.
7:10 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On Tue, July 7, 2015 11:06 pm, Stephen Stubbs wrote:
Patrick Shirkey:
I'm not sure there is much more that can be said in public on this
list but feel free to keep flinging ideas my way. Do you need coffee
and cigarettes too or donuts and sausages? IIUC Germans like to boil
your sausages right? Maybe we can include a portable broiler in the
vehicle for times when you need a quick break? Or maybe we should have
an allowance for monthly beer expenses. I here that you Germans are
fond of beer. So driving the company car at high speed on the autobahn
while drinking copious amounts of free beer and eating boiled sausages
should be a pretty tempting deal right?
Stephen Stubbs:
Were you a miner in a previous career? You have an amazing aptitude
for digging holes deeper. GRIN.
You should see my garden ;-)
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
7:25 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia hardware Technician with Company Vehicle
On 07/06/2015 04:36 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Hi,
Just in case anyone is still interested and you haven't been scared off by
all the negativity emanating from the list, I have spoken with my contacts
and they have agreed that it's no problem to provide a company vehicle if
requested.
So, If you are looking for an interesting salaried job working with Linux
(audio) and audio/multimedia technology which also has the opportunity for
driving around Germany to interesting locations with the option of a
company vehicle which comes highly recommended by a long time LAU/LAD
contributor then this may just be the one for you.
I'm not sure there is much more that can be said in public on this list
but feel free to keep flinging ideas my way. Do you need coffee and
cigarettes too or donuts and sausages? IIUC Germans like to boil your
sausages right? Maybe we can include a portable broiler in the vehicle for
times when you need a quick break? Or maybe we should have an allowance
for monthly beer expenses. I here that you Germans are fond of beer. So
driving the company car at high speed on the autobahn while drinking
copious amounts of free beer and eating boiled sausages should be a pretty
tempting deal right?
Hint: you are not quite on the right track :)
To be at least a little bit constructive, here's what serious job offers
usually look like (this example taken from the pro event industry):
http://www.service.vplt.org/?cat=biete/job
Google translate will retain enough sense so that you can get the feel
of it, and the level of detail of company and job information that will
allow people to judge if it makes sense for them to apply:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http…
"Get in touch by private mail for any details at all" is really a bit
ominous - do you really want to play it even remotely like a mail scam?
The absolute minimum of information I would require to take anybody's
job offer seriously is the name and location of the company, the
business sector, and least a brief job description and/or employee profile.
With that information out in the open, you might then also consider to
use other forums in addition to LAU to get a wider range of possible
candidates. Salary details are not usually discussed in job offers,
unless it is a public offering where salaries comply to some legal
regulation, in which case the applicable tariff is mentioned.
Beer and driving are not among the key issues when discussing potential
jobs, nor is the offer of a free company dirndl going to significantly
increase the number of female applicants.
All best,
Jörn
--
Jörn Nettingsmeier
Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487
Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio)
Tonmeister VDT
http://stackingdwarves.net
8 Jul
8 Jul
12:10 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:39:56 +1000 (EST)
"Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
Apparently it's something to do with one or all of
these three main
reasons.
1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in
new jobs for
themselves or their friends
2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
Must be on topic this time: I am not German and I found your 'job
offer' dubious.
Then I checked the web site, and the dubious aspect did not get away.
3: Some members don't like my personality so
don't want to take it any
further
Well, if you make such an offer of that quality, this is what people
will go by. They do not know you. And you do not know them.
2:53 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:39:56 +1000
From: pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Mon, July 6, 2015 8:42 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
Personally I don't think personality or any possible personal grudges against you has
anything to do with it! Stop with that paranoia now.
But if I was German, or even living in and willing to move to Germany, and in the market
for a new job I very much doubt I would have responded to your email. It is far too vague
and sounds like at best it will be a sales role and at worst a dubious vapour
opportunity.
Over the years I have done much work through agencies, applied for quite a lot more roles
than I've taken and been emailed a lot more that I've not been interested in at
the time. Generally you would expect full information minus the name of the company in
question, or anything that could lead directly to it within a few minutes on the internet.
Your offer had near zero real information in it!! Therefore, personally anyway, I
wouldn't consider it worth looking at further unless I was in real dire straights at
the time. Do you only want to appeal to really desperate, possibly quite umemployble (for
whatever reason) people? Or do you want the advert to appeal to the people who might
actually be good at the job?? I know which I would try and attract!
2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
Apparently it's something to do with one or all of these three main reasons.
1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in new jobs for themselves
or their friends
2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
3: Some members don't like my personality so don't want to take it any
further
It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want to
go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German members
of LAU quite obviously don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
I estimate that leaves approximately 200 or so Germans
or people who live
in Germany on the list who have not voiced an opinion. I think there is a
fair chance that at least one of them will be suitable for the role or
know someone who is. If only 5 of them are genuinely interested that would
be a pretty good selection to choose from.
Well good luck with that then....
Dale.
5:57 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Wed, July 8, 2015 10:53 pm, Kaza Kore wrote:
I am mostly interested in giving an opportunity to someone who is a member
of the Linux Audio community. There are several good reasons for that but
probably the most important is that if there is a desperate Linux Audio
Peep out there then, IMO this is a good job which doesn't come up for
grabs very often and if that person wanted it and was the right person for
the role it would be a good thing for both them, me and by extension the
Linux Audio Community.
Now, if you or anyone else thinks that giving people round here some
stable long term employment opportunity which make direct use of their
core skills as Linux Audio experts when the global economy is turning to
custard is a "bad thing" (tm) then I will just have to disagree with y'all
on that point.
All this noise can be fun for a good conversation and is somewhat helpful
for ascertaining the layout of the German employment market but the only
thing that really counts is that if someone is interested in finding out
more they should have contacted me by now.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:39:56 +1000
From: pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Mon, July 6, 2015 8:42 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
Apparently it's something to do with one or all of these three main
reasons.
1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in new jobs for
themselves
or their friends
2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
3: Some members don't like my personality so don't want to take it any
further
Personally I don't think personality or any possible personal grudges
against you has anything to do with it! Stop with that paranoia now.
But if I was German, or even living in and willing to move to Germany, and
in the market for a new job I very much doubt I would have responded to
your email. It is far too vague and sounds like at best it will be a sales
role and at worst a dubious vapour opportunity.
Over the years I have done much work through agencies, applied for quite a
lot more roles than I've taken and been emailed a lot more that I've not
been interested in at the time. Generally you would expect full
information minus the name of the company in question, or anything that
could lead directly to it within a few minutes on the internet. Your offer
had near zero real information in it!! Therefore, personally anyway, I
wouldn't consider it worth looking at further unless I was in real dire
straights at the time. Do you only want to appeal to really desperate,
possibly quite umemployble (for whatever reason) people? Or do you want
the advert to appeal to the people who might actually be good at the job??
I know which I would try and attract!
2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
>
> It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want
to
> go
> to the effort of sending a private email to find out more
information.
They want
it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German members
of LAU quite obviously don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
I estimate
that leaves approximately 200 or so Germans or people who
live
in Germany on the list who have not voiced an opinion. I think there is
a
fair chance that at least one of them will be suitable for the role or
know someone who is. If only 5 of them are genuinely interested that
would
be a pretty good selection to choose from.
Well good luck with that then....
Dale.
7:02 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Jul 8, 2015 5:58 PM, "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>
wrote:
It is of course very nice of you to offer a job first of all to the
community, but it seems as if you consider it to be a favor.
And that, I think, is the problem. The Germans don't usually consider the
employer to do them a favor. It's mutual interests that lead an potential
employee to the employer.
Also the German law generally protects the employee more from the employer
than vice versa.
So if you really would be interested in a professional, serious and
devoted employee, you should have listened to the people that keenly
offered advice and given more information about your offer.
You seem to blame us (yes I'm in Germany too) for not begging for a job,
but if no one answered you, it can be because of several reasons,
either everyone here is currently employed, or that your offer looks
dubious to us.
I wish you best of luck.
Cheers
Moshe.
On Wed, July 8, 2015 10:53 pm, Kaza Kore wrote:
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:39:56 +1000
>> From: pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
>> To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
>> Subject: Re: [LAU] Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
>>
>>
>> On Mon, July 6, 2015 8:42 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
>> > 2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey
>> <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
>> >>
>> >> It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't
want
>> to
>> >> go
>> >> to the effort of sending a private email to find out more
>> information.
>> >> They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
>> >
>> > I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German
members
>> > of LAU quite obviously don't want to
go
>> > to the effort of sending a private email to find out more
information.
>> >
>> > I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
>> > identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
>> > You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
>> > rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
>> >
>> > Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
>> > obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
>> >
>>
>> Apparently it's something to do with one or all of these three main
>> reasons.
>>
>> 1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in new jobs for
>> themselves
>> or their friends
>> 2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
>> 3: Some members don't like my personality so don't want to take it any
>> further
>>
>
> Personally I don't think personality or any possible personal grudges
> against you has anything to do with it! Stop with that paranoia now.
>
> But if I was German, or even living in and willing to move to Germany,
and
> in the market for a new job I very much doubt I
would have responded to
> your email. It is far too vague and sounds like at best it will be a
sales
> role and at worst a dubious vapour opportunity.
>
> Over the years I have done much work through agencies, applied for
quite a
> lot more roles than I've taken and been
emailed a lot more that I've not
> been interested in at the time. Generally you would expect full
> information minus the name of the company in question, or anything that
> could lead directly to it within a few minutes on the internet. Your
offer
> had near zero real information in it!! Therefore,
personally anyway, I
> wouldn't consider it worth looking at further unless I was in real dire
> straights at the time. Do you only want to appeal to really desperate,
> possibly quite umemployble (for whatever reason) people? Or do you want
> the advert to appeal to the people who might actually be good at the
job??
I know which I
would try and attract!
I am mostly interested in giving an opportunity to someone who is a member
of the Linux Audio community. There are several good reasons for that but
probably the most important is that if there is a desperate Linux Audio
Peep out there then, IMO this is a good job which doesn't come up for
grabs very often and if that person wanted it and was the right person for
the role it would be a good thing for both them, me and by extension the
Linux Audio Community.
Now, if you or anyone else thinks that giving people round here some
stable long term employment opportunity which make direct use of their
core skills as Linux Audio experts when the global economy is turning to
custard is a "bad thing" (tm) then I will just have to disagree with y'all
on that point.
All this noise can be fun for a good conversation and is somewhat helpful
for ascertaining the layout of the German employment market but the only
thing that really counts is that if someone is interested in finding out
more they should have contacted me by now. 
7:44 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
when the global economy is turning to
custard
The global economy is not presently turning into custard. It's
healthy. The major austerity policies that have held back demand have
been rolled back. Growth is up, and there's no major foreseeable
problems threatening the GLOBAL economy right now (don't you fuck this
up).
With unemployment down, employees have more leverage, can expect
better salaries, working conditions (take it from me: I got hired at
my current job in Nov 2008, and there was NObody hiring). Employees
have more options now.
What folks in the EU need to be worried about this year is that the
economy does not start shrinking as a result of Greece imploding, in
terms of employment and inflation. In the EU, many smart people will
be risk-averse to horizontal job movement.
9 Jul
9 Jul
9:51 a.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Thu, July 9, 2015 3:44 am, Charles Z Henry wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
It must be nice being on your planet. It seems that you consider QE to be
a rational way of growing the economy.
when the global economy is turning to
custard
The global economy is not presently turning into custard. It's
healthy. The major austerity policies that have held back demand have
been rolled back. Growth is up, and there's no major foreseeable
problems threatening the GLOBAL economy right now (don't you fuck this
up).
With unemployment down, employees have more leverage,
can expect
better salaries, working conditions (take it from me: I got hired at
my current job in Nov 2008, and there was NObody hiring). Employees
have more options now.
Hardly. The employment market is not booming. Just limping along. Salaries
have gone down and employees are expected to work harder and longer to
secure their jobs if they can get one.
What folks in the EU need to be worried about this
year is that the
economy does not start shrinking as a result of Greece imploding, in
terms of employment and inflation. In the EU, many smart people will
be risk-averse to horizontal job movement.
In several countries in the EU alone the situation has become a
humanitarian crisis. Don't ignore with the unprecedented numbers of
migrants flooding into the EU due to the idiotic wars that EU states are
enabling all over the world.
What is painfully clear from this thread is that if this list is
representative of the wider market in Germany then a large number of you
folks over there are not feeling the heat like the rest of Europe. You
might consider it to be because of careful planning and German
resoluteness but other people in other parts of Europe see a massive
imbalance tilted in favour of Germany and Banksters rigging the system to
your advantage.
It's highly likely that if the Grexit happens they will bypass the
conventional monetary system and go for a crypto currency. A comparison is
a bit like moving away from coal/nuclear to a distributed solar and wind
energy infrastructure.
If that comes to pass there will be a major crises of confidence in normal
currencies and the Banksters won't be able to control the flow of
cash/resources to the same degree they do now.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
7:21 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
On Thu, July 9, 2015 3:44 am, Charles Z Henry wrote:
Sorry--you're right about a lot of things here. I should know better
than to try to argue what the economic outlook really looks like.
I've had another look and seen some data. I had been reading about
the economic situation in Europe, but I didn't really know what it's
like.
Chuck
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
It must be nice being on your planet. It seems that you consider QE to be
a rational way of growing the economy.
when the global economy is turning to
custard
The global economy is not presently turning into custard. It's
healthy. The major austerity policies that have held back demand have
been rolled back. Growth is up, and there's no major foreseeable
problems threatening the GLOBAL economy right now (don't you fuck this
up).
With unemployment down, employees have more
leverage, can expect
better salaries, working conditions (take it from me: I got hired at
my current job in Nov 2008, and there was NObody hiring). Employees
have more options now.
Hardly. The employment market is not booming. Just limping along. Salaries
have gone down and employees are expected to work harder and longer to
secure their jobs if they can get one.
What folks in the EU need to be worried about
this year is that the
economy does not start shrinking as a result of Greece imploding, in
terms of employment and inflation. In the EU, many smart people will
be risk-averse to horizontal job movement.
In several countries in the EU alone the situation has become a
humanitarian crisis. Don't ignore with the unprecedented numbers of
migrants flooding into the EU due to the idiotic wars that EU states are
enabling all over the world.
What is painfully clear from this thread is that if this list is
representative of the wider market in Germany then a large number of you
folks over there are not feeling the heat like the rest of Europe. You
might consider it to be because of careful planning and German
resoluteness but other people in other parts of Europe see a massive
imbalance tilted in favour of Germany and Banksters rigging the system to
your advantage.
It's highly likely that if the Grexit happens they will bypass the
conventional monetary system and go for a crypto currency. A comparison is
a bit like moving away from coal/nuclear to a distributed solar and wind
energy infrastructure.
If that comes to pass there will be a major crises of confidence in normal
currencies and the Banksters won't be able to control the flow of
cash/resources to the same degree they do now. 
8 Jul
8 Jul
8:48 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 01:57:42AM +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
...
probably the most important is that if there is a desperate Linux Audio
Peep out there then, IMO this is a good job which doesn't come up for
grabs very often
You've hit the nail. As many posters have by now pointed out,
the way your job offer is formulated (compare that e.g. to the
examples that Joern pointed to in his post) makes it appeal to
desperados only. And desperate people are always the ones being
exploited. That and only that makes the offer look suspect.
I'm not saying there *is* anything wrong with it, only that you
very much make it look that way.
Ciao,
--
FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
6 Jul
6 Jul
12:57 p.m.
New subject: Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:02:24 +1000 (EST), Patrick Shirkey wrote:
It seems like you are implying that German members of
LAU don't want
to go to the effort of sending a private email to find out more
information. They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public
list.
Your offer is in a style as dubious job offers are in Germany and most
likely all over the world too. As Fons already pointed out. What's your
role?
Don't claim that just Germans are sceptic.
People all over the world introduce their self!
People all over the world describe their offers!
Even little children all over the world don't trust somebody offering
delicate candy and cuddly toys without some background information.
Little children say no and go away.
Do you really expect adults to say hi and show me more?
It sounds like you offer a customer acquisition job. That kind of
customer acquisition job were the income isn't safe, were employees
have to invest money.
We spend much effort in warning others to send you an email and to
explain you what you could do as a dementi.
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