[ale] posting

Scott Steele roninazure at gmail.com
Tue May 1 15:05:46 EDT 2007


I'm still trying to convince my "higher-ups" to allow me to work from home.
I live in Midtown and muct drive to Alpharetta daily. I have VoIP and T-1 so
I can do 90% of what needs to be done from the crib. Strangely, my company
promotes a "green" mentality, ride share, etc. All this talk is lying on
deaf ears.

On 5/1/07, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>
> Jerald Sheets wrote:
>
> > We have this conversation every few years when someone gets on here
> > and posts some outrageous figure for mid-tier hosting work like this.
> >
> > I recall last time the amount of the description was listed at abot
> > 20/hr, and I got chastised for thinking that's a bit of an insult for
> > this type of work.  It still is.
> >
> > Now, with the much better market, they're going to have a real problem
> > filling this.
> >
> > 40k...  Wow.  Can you live downtown on that?  I mean, my gas bill to
> > commute to the perimeter is 500/mo alone.
>
> Mother of god.  I am *so* glad I work at home.
>
> IT companies could probably slash our nation's dependence on foreign
> oil merely by allowing their "knowledge workers" to telecommute on
> a regular basis.  And they'd save themselves money, too, on life support
> for their human servants.
>
> -- JK
>
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