Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:03:20 +1100 From: Peter Moulder <pjrm@mail.internode.on.net> Subject: Re: [luv-jobs] Web Developer - PHP To: luv-jobs@luv.asn.au Message-ID: <20130322120320.GA14136@mail.internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:16:29AM +1100, Christopher Gibson wrote:
The company that I work for, Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited, is currently seeking a Web developer. I've added the advert text below.
The financial reports given on the web site give cause for concern. As we developers & sysadmins aren't necessarily very skilled in understanding corporate financing, but we're pretty good with calculators, and the numbers we see in these reports don't look good. What do you expect to happen to keep the Australian operations afloat for the duration of the contract, and how do you expect that to affect Australian staff such as yourself and the successful applicant for this position?
pjrm.
Yep. Good points. All part of the "excitement" of working for a company trying to commercialise a technology. Manufacturing has been shifted to Germany, as there is a lot more government support for micro generators there than here in Australia. It also means manufacturing is close to the other promising market in the UK. R&D is still firmly planted in Noble Park (and not on a bamboo raft to the South East of Brisbane). There are no plans to shut down the Australian side of the operation, as this is where the main product knowledge base resides. I would say the company has a fair chance of succeeding commercially, and the technology is important socially and environmentally. As to the Australian staff, many of them were made redundant approximately 6 months back. This lead to the inevitable drop in moral of the remaining staff, but moral has improved since then. I don't foresee the company doing that again any time soon. I've found them a good and generally happy bunch of people to work with. Best regards, Chris
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Message: 2 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:31:13 +1100 From: Peter Moulder <pjrm@mail.internode.on.net> Subject: Re: [luv-jobs] Web Developer - PHP To: luv-jobs@luv.asn.au Message-ID: <20130322133113.GA15092@mail.internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:03:20PM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:16:29AM +1100, Christopher Gibson wrote:
The company that I work for, Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited, is currently seeking a Web developer. I've added the advert text below.
The financial reports given on the web site give cause for concern.
Perhaps a more upbeat way of saying that would be that there are promising signs of greatly increased sales, and it would be good to hear of the progress since then. It looks like the next 12 months will be a critical time for the company, and the successful applicant might make a difference in how the company pulls through this period into a prosperous future.
pjrm.
Yep. Important roll at a critical time.