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Subject:Re: Why TW Survey salary range stops at $100,000 From:Jack Shaw <jsh -at- SOFTWARE-AG -dot- DE> Date:Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:05:35 +0200
Harold Henke asks why the James Madison TW Survey (if you
didn't respond to the inquiry to take the survey, you won't
know about it...) asked about salary but stopped at $100,000.
He cheekily implied that TW folks at "greater" computer co's.
than Horrendously Anachronistic Labyrinth (HAL) Computer Co.
must surely make in excess of a six-figure salary.
Geez, Harold, I'd 've thought that, if anywhere, HAL TWs would be
rattling around in that range. I mean, How can you call yourself
a Senior Staph Advisory Information Enveloper and earn anything
less? Even in pre-Gerstner days, my Info. Enveloper colleagues
at HAL made a habit of asking, "What other job pays so well for
doing so little so often?"...
But then, that was in the days when we bowed toward Armonk three
times daily and chanted the mantra question, "What son?, What son?...".
Now, I hear that the flowery incantation is "Lo-tus, bless 'em!"
while facing Silicon Valley...
