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Someone tried to sell me a permie job

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    Someone tried to sell me a permie job

    Senior tester - Database - Java - XML - backend testen - Utrecht

    BLA BLA BLA…

    Requirements
    * Knowledge of databases, Java and XML
    * Experience with automated testing
    * An academic level (preferably Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science)
    * Minimum 3 years experience as Quality/Test Engineer with backend testing
    * Experience with GUI test tools such as Winrunner, QF-Test, or open source tools such as TPTP AGR
    * Knowledge of structured testing, automated testing and functional test techniques such as TestFrame®, Tmap®, TMM or TPI
    * Knowledge of Web technology
    * Good knowledge of Dutch and English both written and spoken
    * Experience with Linux and Microsoft Windows

    What do you get?
    Flexible working hours and a salary matching your knowledge and experience from €2500-€5000 gross a month. They offer a bonus- scheme depending on the company profit. They pay for your travel costs, pension and net expenses €55 a month. They all eat lunch together and have fruit, juices, cup a soup and sultana’s to take whenever you want. On top of that they offer the best coffee in the world!
    You will get a one-year contract with 1-month trail and 1 month notice. If you are sporty you can go to the gym around the corner for €10 a month.



    What is this about? in return for my work I get fruit, juice, sultanas and powdered soup together with a bunch of geeks and the opportunity to spend my crap salary in the gym around the corner? Since when has ‘the right to spend your money in the shop of your own choice’ been an attractive reason to work for someone?
    Last edited by Mich the Tester; 19 March 2009, 14:31.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

    #2
    sounds like a bunch of tree hugging hippy crap!

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      #3
      You get paid in lentils and museli.

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        #4
        You're not sporty then?
        'elf and safety guru

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          #5
          Originally posted by thelace View Post
          You're not sporty then?
          Yes. I have my own gym in the garage; something I would never have been able to afford as a permie.
          And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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            #6
            Whats wrong with fruit juice and sultanas ?

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              #7
              Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
              Whats wrong with fruit juice and sultanas ?
              They give me the tulips.
              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #8
                Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                Yes. I have my own gym in the garage; something I would never have been able to afford as a permie.
                Pah - plastic contractor. You should have a Ferrari in your garage like the rest of us.
                ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                  Pah - plastic contractor. You should have a Ferrari in your garage like the rest of us.
                  What, one of those Ferraris that everyone's heard about but nobody's ever seen?
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #10
                    sorry off topic slightly - but why would a tester need to know java?

                    The xml and databases - ok will accept that a tester may need to go look see what is in there.

                    but java?
                    This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernames

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