Sunday, September 27, 2009

Fan Mail: Delphi Job Market

Your reviewer got some emails about jobs, jobs and jobs...

Delphi Job Search
http://delphizine.com/opinion/2002/10/di200210fn_o/di200210fn_o.asp
They used to have nice job discussion, but sadly, it now goes to a cyber-squatter site.

Personal Delphi Agents
www.personaldelphiagents.com
The website is now missing in action Or maybe their IntraWeb website is off-line :)

Advanced Systems Jobs
http://www.advdelphisys.com/jobs/..%5Cjobs.html
The website shows no jobs. Most of site not working.

Richey's Delphi Jobs
http://www.inner-smile.com/delphij1.phtml
No jobs since 2006.

DelphiWorld
http://www.delphiworld.com/
Hosting Account Expired. In the former days, this website would show 10 Delphi jobs a month, but for some reason, they dropped until 0 jobs.

Borland.Public.Delphi.Jobs
Better known as Borland.Public.Delphi.Insult.Employers

Many years ago, when Borland was renamed to Imprise and then renamed to Borland, the Delphi Jobs had lots and lots of discussions, like: which Delphi Jobs paid the most, or prospective employees asking embarrassing questions.

Nearly every job had a discussion, be it, asking about H1B visas, and the anti-H1B visa people, or the people asking for higher salaries (when the job posted a low salary), or someone wanting to take revenge on the employer. Arun* the Delphi developer living in India would ask around about H1B visa and sponsorship, and John* the American Delphi programmer would post "employ me instead" post. then it would go into long-winded insulting argument, the Russian Outsourcing company would post that team so-and-so is looking for remote jobs, and Joe would post asking about prices, and then there would be discussion about wages, which eventually went postings discrediting the Russian company.

[* not real name, but close enough]

Eventually, someone complained and then TeamB had to step-in and constantly delete the tide of messages on the Jobs newsgroup.

Ever seen the message from TeamB: , your message is canceled. The jobs newsgroup is only for job postings and nothing else. If you want to discuss the job, please email the person directly (or something like that).

If you read the newsgroups often and get chance to read the messages before they get deleted, some posting had hateful or insulting message to employers and HR agencies.

Example
One Delphi vendor offers to hire at US$600.
[the 2nd, 3rd, 4th post canceled was insulting, the 5th post, TeamB person asks to reply directly]
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=100063

With US$600 a month, you can buy many things and live good life!!

:)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

interesting.........