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Best Places To Work In IT
jcatcw writes "Computerworld's annual summary of the best places to work in IT lists companies that excel in five areas of employment: career development, retention, benefits, diversity, and training. According to the scorecard, the top five retention methods are: competitive benefits; competitive salaries; work/life balance; flexible work hours; and tuition reimbursement. Of the top 100 companies, 64 expect the number of U.S.-based IT staffers to increase in 2007, on average by 7%. Here is the whole list. The top three are Quicken Loans, University of Miami, and Sharp HealthCare."
career development
This is a nonsense phrase that can be reduced to "anything except actually increasing your salary and hoping you'll fall for the substitutes".
retention
I'm not an IT drone, but I would say this boils down to the market. Retention often just means that the market sucks and there's no other place to go that's necessarily any better.
benefits
Who cares? Give me money, instead.
diversity
This is bullshit. Nobody has EVER said "I want to work at this other company, because they are more diverse". Again, pay me more and value me as an employee. I don't really give a shit what the makeup of the workforce is as long as I'm not picking up their slack.
training
Instead of spending money to hire someone who has this knowledge, we will pay a smaller amount to train existing employees and then instead of increasing their salaries accordingly, we will claim that the money we spent on the training is our compensation. Another way to get more out of employees without paying them.
work/life balance
Work/Life balance is for pussies. Do you think your CEO is worried about "balance"? He enjoys what he does and gets paid well for it. Stop buying into the bullshit that being a workaholic is somehow a bad thing.
flexible work hours
For pussies. Real men are always working.
tuition reimbursement
Pay me a better salary and I'll handle my own fucking tuition.
Here's the number one thing you can do to be a worthwhile company: STOP OUTSOURCING JOBS, THEREBY REDUCING THE VALUE OF *OUR* EMPLOYEES AND REDUCING THEIR SALARY AND LIFETIME EARNING POTENTIAL. AND STOP TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR FUCKING US IN THE ASS WITH THAT, WITH FREE CAR DETAILING ON WEDNESDAYS. IT'S A FUCKING JOKE.
FUCK YOU.
I wouldn't be surprised if Venezuela becomes a better place for an IT job than the US in the coming years. I'd gladly welcome Chavez as our president over Bush.
Monsanto are the people that patent genes, have lobbied to have certain legislation* added to the new Iraq constitution, have engineered plants that are sterile and can't be replanted so people have to keep buying new seeds... that's not even the half of it, and lets not even get started on their history of litigation.
Once I saw them on there, I promptly closed the browser tab.
Why can't company who have done all those things, be a good
employer?
Oh my freakin lord, that name comes up again. The most evilest, most disgusting pig of a company.