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Guys, you are allowed to negotiate and ask for more money. This is supposed to be a business centric forum and you all are taking the list offer at face value!

Guys, you are allowed to negotiate and ask for more money. This is supposed to be a business centric forum and you all are taking the list offer at face value! For a flexible contractor with the experience and a desire to make hay from a desperate client it should be a decent gig. The sort of gigs old timers talk about when reflecting on y2k preparation.

tremon 3y ago
An offer that starts out with a 70-hour workweek and zero days off is not something I'd even consider negotiating further. If they want 7x10 coverage, that's at least a 2-person rotation schedule. The fact that they're only willing to shell out for one person tells me that they're not serious about their IT administration, and therefore not an employer I'd want to work for.
- kgermino 3y ago
  Honestly given the circumstances (emergency short term contract to get them back up) the 10/7 schedule doesn’t bother me that much. It’s also not clear to me that they’re only looking for one person. The pay though… I don’t know what Sys Admins make but that seems absurdly low for what they want. 100-110/ hr seems like it would be a decent long term rate for the skill set, not the “all hands on deck super overtime emergency” one. If it was my skillset I’d probably reach out to see if they were willing to move a lot on the rate and pass if they weren’t
- zamalek 3y ago
  > that's at least a 2-person rotation schedule. Especially in terms of adequate rest and good decision-making.
User23 3y ago
My first thought for a counter is $1,000 an hour, fully comped room, food, and beverage in their very best high roller gambling addict tier accommodations. I mean the kind that comes with a butler. And then some residual fully comped stay credits for use after the job is done.
Angostura 3y ago
Yeh. Not gambling on that.
- justinclift 3y ago
  Surely someone could slot it in? :)
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tremon 3y ago

An offer that starts out with a 70-hour workweek and zero days off is not something I'd even consider negotiating further. If they want 7x10 coverage, that's at least a 2-person rotation schedule. The fact that they're only willing to shell out for one person tells me that they're not serious about their IT administration, and therefore not an employer I'd want to work for.

kgermino 3y ago
Honestly given the circumstances (emergency short term contract to get them back up) the 10/7 schedule doesn’t bother me that much. It’s also not clear to me that they’re only looking for one person. The pay though… I don’t know what Sys Admins make but that seems absurdly low for what they want. 100-110/ hr seems like it would be a decent long term rate for the skill set, not the “all hands on deck super overtime emergency” one. If it was my skillset I’d probably reach out to see if they were willing to move a lot on the rate and pass if they weren’t
zamalek 3y ago
> that's at least a 2-person rotation schedule. Especially in terms of adequate rest and good decision-making.

User23 3y ago

My first thought for a counter is $1,000 an hour, fully comped room, food, and beverage in their very best high roller gambling addict tier accommodations. I mean the kind that comes with a butler. And then some residual fully comped stay credits for use after the job is done.

Angostura 3y ago

Yeh. Not gambling on that.

justinclift 3y ago
Surely someone could slot it in? :)

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