> IMall, a local company that is well known on the net, is looking to
> hire Unix sys-admins, programmers, and PERL Programmers.
Oh, my. For those of you who don't know, I used to work at iMALL (we
were kind of pedantic about the capitalization, as I recall, with the
lower case "i" and the rest in caps). I was their first technical
staff member (Phil Windley was a consultant at the time, not an
employee), and it was indeed a great place to work. That changed,
however, after "slappy" was hired to run our department. My last six
months there were extremely painful and I was incredibly happy to leave
when I did. I must say, though, that I learned a lot while working
there and some of the things I did influenced my work style in major
ways. For example, I refuse now to edit live code running in
production, just writing out the editor buffer and hoping for the best.
I now mandate test environments and a controlled "release" process.
iMALL had some great ideas and cool technology, but like so many
companies it suffered greatly from mismanagement and stupidity at the
higher levels. It makes you wonder how these people got rich in the
first place, when they can't seem to think. Ah, well, enough ranting.
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
Semi-Unemployed "Computer Facilitator"
http://www.peterson.ath.cx/~jlp/resume.html
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