{"id":326,"date":"2006-04-24T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smilingdogapps.com\/wordpress\/?p=11"},"modified":"2006-04-24T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T18:30:43","slug":"dilbert-has-left-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/24\/dilbert-has-left-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert has left the building"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, my favorite programmer moved away from the job here.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of sad now because we used to talk during the day about the market and about Java and about how much he didn\u2019t like being here.\u00a0 Which is one of the reasons he left here.\u00a0 The other reason is the money.\u00a0 The contract rate for him as it turns out was roughly equivalent to the one that I\u2019m getting, but while I\u2019m pretty satisfied with it, he thought it was a pittance and wanted a minimum of 20% more. I\u2019d take 20% more, but I\u2019m more or less satiated with my rate.\u00a0 But that\u2019s a good thing because it means that I\u2019m happy with what I have right now and can probably get more later on.\u00a0 That\u2019s a whole lot better than knowing I\u2019m getting the max and feeling like I need more just to be happy!<\/font><\/p>\n


\n<\/font><\/font>I took him out to <\/font>Peter Luger\u2019s<\/font><\/a> in Great Neck, Long Island near to where we work.\u00a0 I ordered the steak for 2, which I thoroughly recommend there.\u00a0 It costs a lot, but it\u2019s a thick <\/font>porterhouse<\/font><\/a>, which is the New York strip on one side and the filet on the other.\u00a0 We talked about the place where I work and he used to work and basically his reason for leaving came down to a question of money and a lack of programming assignments.\u00a0 Most contractors I know are the same; they all want to program and be productive, which is pretty healthy overall I think.\u00a0 I mean there\u2019s not a lot of slacker contractors out there that really want to sit on their asses all day long, doing nothing but just collecting.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, my favorite programmer moved away from the job here.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of sad now because we used to talk during the day about the market and about Java and about how much he didn\u2019t like being here.\u00a0 Which is one of the reasons he left here.\u00a0 The other reason is the money.\u00a0 The contract […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}