Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback? 456
jeebus writes "This week a Deloitte study has shown that high on the agenda of CEOs around the world is the shortage of tech talent. Is a shortage of talented geeks in the market seeing a return of the dot-com culture with foosball tables, beanbags, and inflated salaries used to entice talented workers? Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture, the future of yesterday. 'Global recruitment companies were telling prospecting employees that they were no longer going to be employed just because they were a technical guru. They were going to have to learn to dress, communicate, and adapt all the traditional corporate ideals that IT has been exempt from during the dot-com boom. Fast forward to Web 2.0 and while workplaces aren't as cheesy with their decor as they were were in the late '90s, and developers aren't getting paid $100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys, geeks just aren't chuffed with corporate culture.'"
Anyone hiring? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:sigh (Score:3, Funny)
You must be a barrel of kicks at parties:
"Happy Birthday. You're closer to death now you know. Can't wait."
All I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Thank God Sony gave me this great job developing games for the PS3.
Re:sigh (Score:4, Funny)
Stops them suggesting marriage anytime soon.
Laid back work environment, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Deloitte ?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:it's going to come up (Score:3, Funny)
Re:All I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:misconception about salaries? (Score:5, Funny)
Also, please stop looking at me, I haven't had the chance to put my eye-patch on today.
Re:it's going to come up (Score:3, Funny)
(More truthfully, it's about US $34,170, or UK £16,950.)
Re:Clothes are a cost (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I still do good (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's not THAT good yet... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:it's going to come up (Score:3, Funny)
Re:sigh (Score:3, Funny)
Re:it's going to come up (Score:5, Funny)
While that's an advertent remark, it's fairly promptu and something to sneeze at, after all the original inspiration is far more ept and sipid:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-m
Re:Anyone hiring? (Score:3, Funny)
Enter Cash Cow 2.0.........
Re:misconception about salaries? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:All the Chutney you can eat! (Score:1, Funny)
Not this time (Score:3, Funny)
yea cant wait for DotComBurst 2.0
Not like the big one of '99. There's not enough in the geek production pipeline this time and talent in formerly developing markets are managing to stay employed right where they are. IT was so out of favor as a career choice five years ago that some colleges started scaling back their IT programs. Not only a fall off in production but many schools scrapped their production capacity.
Even if they could get their IT programs back online tomorrow and overcome the still persistent perception that IT is a career where your job will be outsourced, it would still be five years before capacity caught up with demand.
In fact, in the short term, the geek world may be flush with opportunity. The hot growth markets are overseas. They started vacuuming up some of the excess of world IT talent, which I believe is what contributed to the sudden shortage here.
I still remember stuffy managers looking at a proposal and snuffing that they could outsource the development for half the cost. Fast forward a couple years...got a call from a tech company in town this am offering to contract all the hours I can spare them at a premium rate. Who's laughing now, Mr. Poopy Pants?
Okay, you're right, we shouldn't use this as an opportunity to be petty and say things like NA-NA-NA-NANAAAAAAAAAA!!! Or NEENER, NEENER, NEENER. We must be adults about this when dealing with the LOOOOOOOO-HOO-HOOOOSSSSERRRSSSSS!!!!!
Re:it's going to come up (Score:0, Funny)
So thats the problem...
Says to the Doctor, "My crotch itches profusely every night around 2am."
Doc, "Does your company use Norton ghost? If so what time does it run?"
Are you out of the hospital yet? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:sigh (Score:2, Funny)
> "Happy Birthday. You're closer to death now you know. Can't wait."
It's a scientifically proven fact that people who have more birthdays live longer.
Re:It actually works this time... (Score:4, Funny)
This is why so few coders ever get rich...
Re:The comming screw (Score:2, Funny)