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How high are these folks????

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Arganteal seeks an onsite Red Hat Linux System Admin "RHEL SysAdmin" in Las Vegas, Nevada for immediate work starting 9-21-2023. This role will be helping the MGM Grand Casino to build its net new IT environment after the recent ransomware hack.

Candidates must be willing to work everyday until the new IT environment is fully stood up.

We are open to people who will only work a grand total of 7 days!

Higher Pay for those willing to stick it out until the job is done!

Expected Dates of Service 9-21-2023 through 10-15-2023

Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099

Location: Onsite at MGM HQ in Las Vegas (absolutely no remote work)

Visa Status: Must be US Citizen (no Green Cards or H1b visa candidates will be accepted)

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$100/hr! BWAHAHAHA. I clicked onto the story thinking "I bet they're willing to back up the truck for this!"

Nope; they're willing to pay you an entire black chip every hour (pre-tax). Get bent.

> no Green Cards or H1b visa candidates will be accepted

This (specifically blocking Green Card holders) may also be illegal, absent a bonafide reason (which I can't readily think of, but I'm sure the EEOC will be happy to inquire about).

I would probably do it just so I could say in the future "I'm literally the one guy who brought MGM back online"

If I could... that's a big if though

something to... gamble on ;)

Yeah, that's laughable. If they want seriously qualified people to drop everything, go to Vegas and work for over three weeks straight with no days off basically cleaning up someone else's incompetent clusterfuck, the offer's gonna need to be a lot better than that...

Throw in a suite (not a room, a suite) in the hotel, and unlimited room service food, and that might start to be a little attractive. Still a no for me personally, but like, I'd start to tingle a bit. 12-16 hrs a day @ $100 for a few weeks is... a decent chunk to someone without Bay Area comp.

Basically startup work, but you get paid.

I'll do it for $200/hr and a table at hakkasan.

They need to up that by at least 4x lol that's wild. I charged 350 as a casual security contractor and I was working a couple days a week in a low pressure environment.

I wouldn't touch this shitshow for less than $500 an hour personally (plus expenses obviously). Or a really sick perk like free high status room/board for life lol

    Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099
    ...
    Higher Pay for those willing to stick it out until the job is done!
    ...
    Working Hours:  Expect to work 10 hours per day 7 days a week

I charged $150/hr in 2006 for basic sysadmin consulting work.

There are PC repair shops that charge more than $100/hr.

Surely this is parody. Surely...

This has to be fake, hah.

You got me thinking that it might be. It's cross-posted on their LinkedIn profile (and their LI profile looks legit).

I think they really are hoping to get applicants here... I'm sure this project will go great!

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=372521440...

Cheap, fast, high quality - pick two. If I was the hiring manager I would just go with a prominent firm. Would satisfy Wall Street and move the issue to them, and the liability. $1000 an hour, who cares. You took billions in stock losses already.

> through 10-15-2023

And then what happens?

All the qualified people they needed before are gone again?

It all gets handed over to the cheapest offshore labor they can source. Back to BAU.

Culture comes from the top. Questionable (but not surprising) culture at the org.

And expected to put in 10 hrs/dy 7 days/wk.

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