Bonkers

[Dirk Koopman]

Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Er, I don't feel that that actually answers the question in the text of mine
> that you quoted. It explains why no-one is filling these vacancies, but:
> 
> Why aren't the people on this list who work for firms making any effort
> to mention that they have vacancies? After all, there is a london.pm
> jobs list for that very purpose...
>

Because they probably know what sort of a result they are going to get.

There is the occasional job posted on here by .pm-ers, but I will grant 
you they are rare. I have done it myself in the past (with no noticeable 
takers BTW), but that may simply be because they realised with whom they 
would be working :-)

>> However, the flip side of this is that they will move away from perl 
>> (too expensive, no workers) and go and find some other language which is 
>> more popular which has lots of cheap, young and enthusiastic workers.
> 
> If the employers can get the job done in this way for the same or less cost,
> then they are not making a mistake by making this transition.
> 

Not saying they are. Just listing the consequences, seeing as an example 
was mentioned on this list, rather erm.. pointedly, just a few days ago.

Dirk