Here's a perfect example of an email that should never have been sent. Sigh... I'll learn one of these days.
This does not characterize the people I work for, as they're a pretty good bunch and actually do understand technology. It's more of a generalized rant fueled by past experiences. Should have hit 'delete' on this one instead of 'send'. Jared On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 11:19, Jared Still wrote: > Mladen, > > My version of the explanation of this goes back to childhood. > > When you were in school, just which crowd were those execs in? > > The 'in' crowd, the jocks, the party hounds. > > If like me, you were one of the 'eggheads', you didn't fit > in so well with their clique, and maybe you still don't. > > When in school, I was told I would be more popular if I > "wasn't so smart". I was even told that once as an adult. > > After pondering that for a bit, I decided they could all > bite the green weenie if they didn't like it. > > This is probably how I earned my Hawkeye Pierce like cynicism, > which I do work hard at keeping in check, lest it cause me > more problems with the former 'in' folk that I now work for. > > 'They' don't like it when people are smarter than they are, > and understand things they don't understand, and can't hope > to understand. > > Hmm, this is getting a but cynical, so I guess I'll stop > before I provide too much fodder for an HR type that has > finally learned how to use google. > > Jared > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 17:19, Mladen Gogala wrote: > > > > On 2003.08.23 18:34, Tim Gorman wrote: > > > > > Six years ago, a CIO commented to me, waving down a corridor which had > > > offices full of developers, "If I had my way, I'd get rid of all of them and > > > replace them with lawyers. We'd buy applications instead of building them > > > and then sue the vendors." My response was something along the lines of "if > > > you think developers are expensive, go price some lawyers", but it certainly > > > bounced off him. At the time, I took it as just another colorful comment > > > from a colorful guy. But he was dead serious, along with his CIO/CFO > > > brethren, and the passing of Y2K and the dot-com bubble pop has expedited > > > his prediction... > > > > I always wondered where does this prejudice against us, computer geeks (my > > apologies to anyone offended by that expression, but I'm a hard core computer > > geek) comes from? I must say that this prejudice is very hard to understand. > > IT people are very well educated, very hard working, regularly willing to > > work long hours and sacrifice their weekends for the benefit of the company. > > I found that very same attitude against the "darned geeks" at several > > executives and managers of several companies I worked for. Even if lawyers > > are much more expensive the programmers, system and database administrators, > > application designers, they are still very willing to make the switch. > > I'm not quite sure why are we so hated? Why would anyone want to kill > > a nice and seet little wabbit? > > > > -- > > Mladen Gogala > > Oracle DBA > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > > -- > > Author: Mladen Gogala > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Jared Still > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
