Re: Intuitive Surgical in Sunnyvale, and more

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~et> wrote:
> Did you talk on the phone or in person?

Phone.  I suspect they would have denied me talking to anybody
there, anyway, if I had shown up in person.  They seem to be
rather hush-hush.  This is another factor no one has talking
about (either Prosearch or the book).

> Was the guy from the IT department?

Yes.  I found his name on the internet.  Amazing what a few
google searches will find.

> Guess we can write them off anyway.  We need to make notice on the
> list of those that do not use Unix or Linux.  So at least the call
> confirmed that.

Yeah.

> P.S.  I looked through the Kaiser ad you sent me.  There was a lot of
> stuff in there but it looks like mostly Microsoft.  Although Kaiser
> uses unix, this job may be largely for desktop support of microsoft,
> for which my background is light.  Might send in anyway just to see.

Well, I'm sure with your temp job, you're learning more and more
about Windows!  But sure you put that experience on your resume.

> P.P.S.  Did you go to the C.S. meeting at ProSearch last Thursday?

Oui.

> Who was 
> there?

Almost everybody, but a few people.  Ray got a job working for
his dad.  Bill Stallman is also poised to get a job, in which
case Roy will have to find another co-director.

> I ran into Cahs last Saturday in where I live.  Apparently he has moved to
> where I live.  He wasn't very friendly, made comments about how I skipped
> out on ProSearch.  Our tiff over our differences in politics and views
> on the the job market situation left too big of a rift, I guess.
> However, ProSearch (and all EDD programs) are almost certainly on
> their last legs anyway.

Yes, I fear so.  I wish more people would just join
http://laidoff.meetup.com , http://unemployed.meetup.com , and
http://jobhunters.meetup.com so there could be non-centralized
networking.  I guess not enough people know about Meetup.

> Since the people of Ca (only about a 5th of them voted) passed
> the propositions, governor S. now has a mandate to mortage the next
> generation (or more) by selling bonds, and of course cutting all
> programs.

Yes.

> A 1 percent increase in taxes for those $250,000 and up would have
> solved the deficit, but again the poor, the old, the disabled, and the
> unemployed will bear the burden....

And middle class, too.

> P.P.P.S.  We lost big time at the city level.  The same old crooks got
> back in.  Unfortunately, Bill also had a run in with Moreno over
> differences in national politics, so I guess we're pretty much done
> with local.

Really?  Moreno likes Bush, huh?  Hard to believe.

> I need to focus on the job search anyway.  My little temp job at $12
> an hour is barely a finger in the dike of my financial situation.

Right.