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Not Your Daddy's IT Force Anymore
Quill345 writes "The days of high-paying technology-based jobs right out of highschool are over. As writers for ACM report, the skill-sets required for jobs have grown over time. Academia has responded to the evolution with novel programs recruiting women and integrating IT into MBA programs. And as technology finds its way into every aspect of business life, the NSF is creating a grant program to fund service science, a blend of IT into other industries. Researchers at City University of NY are working on an NSF-funded project to infuse technology into Liberal Arts courses taken by students who are in primary tech-producer or tech-consumer majors. What are these crucial modern skills? Knowledge of laws like the DMCA? Interpersonal and group work skills? Experience with different technology platforms? The ability to discriminate between useful and useless information sources?"
unfortunately that collides with the ideals and principals that are learned in Engineering Interaction 102 and Managing effectively 103.
Rules for management that is drilled into the students in these classes.
1 - the engineers are lying.
2 - the engineers are lying.
3 - when the engineers are not lying they are covering something up.
4 - Whatever the engineers say the cost is cut it in 1/2 to get the real cost.
5 - Whatever the engineers say the time needed is cut it in 1/3 to get the real time.
6 - if the project fails, the engineers did it.
These are hard and fast MBA rules to live by. Teaching them to actually listen to the engineers and tech people? are you mad?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
As if geeks didnt have enough trouble getting chicks...Now we have to show crack at work?
Methinks that will not help matters at all!
It is an internet axiom that anyone who corrects the spelling or grammar errors of another user will themself create such an error.
I stole this sig from a more creative user.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
as soon as you show that you don't have a grasp of tenth-grade language skills.
1. Nobody has tenth-grade language skills.
2. Talking like Niles Crane will get your arse kicked.
3. Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with I will not put.
Has anyone ever accused you of being educated beyond your intelligence, or called you an arrogant twerp? Just asking.
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