See - I KNEW IT!!! You aren't a PHB. You have to look at this like a PHB. PHB's don't care if the paper means anything relevant. PHB's live for Plausible Deniability and Glory Hogging. If they can't take credit for it, they don't want to get blamed for it either. If anything goes wrong, they want to be able to say that he had <fill in the blank> so I thought he was qualified. On the other hand, if it does well then he can then take the credit because the person he hired had <fill in the blank>. Heck, I got started in the IT business professionally years ago because I fooled a PHB into letting me take over his network while working on a degree in Biochemistry. He actually thought it had something to do with computers. Geeks know its just paper and that paper three appropriate uses (for writing on, paper airplanes, and TP). Geeks know that paper doesn't pass for credentials. The PHB's haven't gotten around to that idea yet. They probably never will. Personally, I don't mind getting the paper. It usually means that the PHB's are willing to put more zero's on my paycheck because I have acquired another piece of paper. Getting more zero's from the PHB's is a good thing. Eric Strovink wrote: > You smoked me out -- lots of hair, all limp. And yes, I am a "geeks dream boss." >I'm a > geek. > > Jimi Thompson wrote: > > > Eric, > > > > You fail to understand that while you are probably a geeks dream boss, you are not >the > > average PHB. Heck, your hair is probably limp ;). The idea here is to gain >acceptance > > and even status with the PHB. PHB's like paper. It doesn't matter if its a useful > > piece of paper or not (MCSE's are a PRIME example of a useless paper - as are many > > college degrees). They live for paper. Its job security for them. It makes them >feel > > warm and fuzzy inside. It also allows them to cover their butts should anything go > > wrong with said hire-ee. > > > > Eric Strovink wrote: > > > > > Somebody wrote: > > > > > > > > If I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm spending considerable > > > > > brain power on this idea and if I'm wasting it, I need to know. I > > > > > don't have much spare brain power and I could use it to try to figure > > > > > out my wife . . . > > > > > > You're way off base. Figure out the wife. I've never hired a "certified" >engineer, > > > and almost without exception the ones I've come across were empty sacks of shit. > > > > > > In fact, I've had great success doing exactly the opposite, and *hiring the wrong > > > guy*. Take a person who's been writing compiler back ends for the last 10 years. > > > This person is constantly pigeonholed by every headhunter out there into yet >another > > > compiler job, and he'd give his eye teeth to do something different. You hire >him > > > for something completely different, and he ends up being the most enthusiastic >and > > > productive person you've got, because everything's new and exciting to him. And > > > believe me, folks, if he can write the back end to a compiler, he can figure out > > > mod_perl. > > > > > > Or, I could hire Ferd over here, with a limp certificate from Randal saying he's > > > passed some clever little test on the six most obscure ways to <mumble>. Uh, no > > > thanks. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Jimi Thompson > > Web Master > > L3 communications > > > > "It's the same thing we do every night, Pinky." -- Jimi Thompson Web Master L3 communications "It's the same thing we do every night, Pinky."
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