on 3/4/09 12:01 AM, Phil Pennock said:

>                                                     ... work on your
> LinkedIn profile and hope that if !...@#$ happens you can get work
> elsewhere with someone both clueful and sufficiently confident in their
> clue ...

I think we passed that point of no return a while back.  Like decades ago.

I've been in this business long enough, and been public enough with my 
criticisms of various employers long enough, that by now anyone who 
interviews me should realize that if they don't want their upper 
management to be criticized for the stupid things they do, then they 
should make sure that their upper management doesn't do stupid things.

When I graduated from college and started my first real job, I had a 
habit of calling things as I saw them.  And not everyone was happy about 
that.  As I've matured, I think I've moved into the phase where I call 
them as they are.  And not everyone has been happy about that.  I'm not 
sure, but I don't think I am quite yet to the phase where they would be 
as I call them.

If you don't know what the above paragraph is in reference to, see the 
"Which Umpire Are You?" thread at 
<http://www.hawkeyelounge.com/archive/index.php/t-35692.html>.


Frankly, I've heard much worse comments on campus, told by people with 
far less consideration of who might happen to be standing around nearby.

If upper management wants to gun for someone who's been criticizing them 
for their stupidity, I think there's a lot of people they'd have to go 
through before they'd get to me.

-- 
Brad Knowles
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