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Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump

CWmike writes "Companies have cut salaries and training, held back on bonuses and piled more work on employees in response to the economic downturn. These tactics may well be pushing many IT pros to go job hunting, Computerworld's latest salary poll has found. More than one third (36%) of the 343 respondents to a recent poll said they are looking to move to a new employer in the next six months. And 69% reported they had not received a pay raise in the past six months. The poll was conducted during the last two weeks in September. For employers, the warning could not be more clear. As the economy improves, the most able IT workers may leave for something better."

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  1. Re:Jump? No better word? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cause they couldn't figure out a better way of saying Switch Jobs...they used JUMP...I was totally thinking something else when I read the headline...

    You could try polymorphism too: "WTF, I'm a chick today! Hey, this feels niiiiice."
       

  2. This is crazy talk! by orsty3001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to my girlfriend's students they are all going to grow up to be big rich software engineers. They will all run their own companies and have no one to answer to. It's just the old neck beards that worry about the economy.

  3. Re:As the economy improves??? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Farming or IT, what's the difference. Either way, you're dealing with manure.

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  4. Re:As the economy improves??? by Excelsior · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any chance that
    while you aren't
    getting any raises
    you are sending
    emails with forced
    carriage returns to
    your boss? I'm
    just saying...

  5. Re:As the economy improves??? by Dishevel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes. Developing in Java is doing it wrong. :)

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  6. Re:They don't seem to have a problem with CEO pay by Sechr+Nibw · · Score: 5, Funny

    He deals with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. He has people skills; he is good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

  7. I've got you beat... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My company was bought by HP.