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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> 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. > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
