| If I hire someone I want them to have a good attention to detail and not just do whatever works. Crazy-person level of attention to detail. Not good. Not adequate. It asks for perfection, or lunacy: both of which are abusive to ask for. [1] They run conventions. Obviously they want their IT guy around to help set everything up. [...] How do you mitigate that? Try hiring four people to do the job of four people. If they fucked up the wifi because their intern-slave is busy updating the site's CSS, managing the databases, backing up the file server, fixing the wifi, carrying down the booths, making coffee, cleaning the toilets, and has to catch a plane for Kuala Lumpur tomorrow at 6 a. m., guess who's failing at his job. And it's not the guy making the coffee. 'on-call 24/7' - Again, this is normal. Maybe it's normal, but that doesn't mean those who accept it for a pittance are not suckers. [1] "Oh, but they're joking, it's hyperbole". I presume the salary is a joke too? |