--On Thursday, December 07, 2000 05:55:41 PM -0600 Jimi Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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>.
That may well be true -- I won't dispute it. :-)
But the real question is, and maybe this is the pivotal point of the whole issue --
is that the kind of place you want to work at?
Where the hiring process becomes so separated from the actual work that you're
evaluated by your certificates, you and your certificates become one and are
interchangeable. You're no longer a whole and complete person and become reduced to
but a "certificate" of your former self. It's a dehumanization, and unfortunately, a
fairly wide-spread trend. On the up side, however, it does tell me where to not even
bother applying.
-- Rob
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Rob Tanner
McMinnville, Oregon
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