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On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:58, Jim Henry wrote: > It's sad that IT is being outsourced but you have to adapt as times and the > economy change. I used to be in the IT field but I changed to Engineering. > Then, as a lowly "user" I often had to contend with IT types so obsessed > with "security" that they would have completely prevented me and my teams > from doing our jobs, if we hadn't just gone ahead and broken out of their > image so we could function, maintain our networks and help our customers. > Often I would go to consult with IT staff about a particular issue and they > would be playing with Nerfball guns, surfing the web, shopping on eBay, > while my team of field engineers and myself were working 70 hour weeks. > You'd never even see them before 9 am in the morning and you would NEVER > reach one of them at 2 or 3 am! That experience may have been unique to my > job and my company, but it causes me to have less sympathy that all of those > folks are no longer in those positions. > Just my 2 cents. > > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Ruben Safir > > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:11 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net > > Subject: RE: [nycwireless] Fwd: Multichannel News - > > AnalystsQuestionBellInvestments > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:28, Jim Henry wrote: > > > No. Check the stats. Do you read any business publications? > > > > > > > Yeah as a matter of fact I read the Wall Street Journal DAILY > > including the moronic editorial on this exact topic 2 days ago. > > > > I'll tell you what else I read, the unemployment of IT > > professionals in NYC. Its fairly unpleasant for a lot of > > people who have been essentially screwed by Telco and the > > Cable Man (along with others I might add). > > > > Ruben > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > > > Of Ruben Safir > > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:11 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net > > > > Subject: RE: [nycwireless] Fwd: Multichannel News - Analysts > > > > QuestionBellInvestments > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > << Make the U.S. more competitive? Look around you! It is > > > > other nations who need to emulate us to attempt to compete > > > > with US. And as a relative measure against ourselves, by all > > > > the parameters used to measure the health of the U.S. economy > > > > (unemployment pct, cost of living, inflation, # people > > > > employed, home ownership, inflation, GDP, > > > > etc.) the U.S. economy has never been better or stronger.>> > > > > > > > > > > > > BTW this is rather insulting. Have you actually been > > > > sleepwalking through the last 6 years of the high tech economy? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > > > > Un/Subscribe: > > > > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > > > > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/278 - Release > > > > Date: 3/9/2006 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > > > Un/Subscribe: > > > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > > > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > -- > > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > > Un/Subscribe: > > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/278 - Release > > Date: 3/9/2006 > > > > > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/