The following is a true story. The name of the client has been changed, and a sufficient amount of time has passed that the story can be told without repercussion. I'm going to share with you the hiring strategy of a hiring manager who was looking for PC Techs for work on an enterprise level account,
The pay rate was $12-$16 an hour, and our billing was only $15.96-$21.28, a 33% mark-up as required by the service level agreement we signed to be a vendor. The manager didn't like me, ostensibly because I wasn't his favored guy, and we had "horned" our way into the contract with a low price negotiated outside of the RFP as a favor to one of our executives.
33% mark-up, and a low pay rate to boot. But I was instructed to find the people, and was informed that to be a team player, I needed to work on this account.
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