Sure, it's a fine idea to train gangstas to "bang" out web pages, but it's not new. We've been seeing the results of programs like these for years, but without recognizing them - our co-workers in corporate America. For your consideration...
Ever wonder where sysadmins come from? The Repeat-Sexual-Offender Rehabilitation Program - they took the most recalcitrant rapists and molesters in our prison systems and trained them to provide system administration services for corporate IT/DP organizations! Keep that in mind the next time your sysadmin smiles and tells you your access has been revoked and your backups have been lost - things will make a lot more sense.
Still don't believe me? Want to know how those drooling dolts running your eBusiness group got their start? Thank the EMFLP (eBusiness MBAs for Lobotomy Patients) program. Based on proprietary research demonstrating that the lack of an intact frontal lobe doesn't significantly decrease the decision success-rate of an eBusiness manager, the daring EMFLP initiative provided a constant flow of warm bodies into the management layers of the Fortune 500, just in time for them to help those businesses devise their e-strategies and avoid being left behind in the dot-com race!
And how could we forget the humble origins of our favorite class of recycled misfits - the software developers? Only the most carefully planned, highly efficient organization could salvage these diamonds in the rough! With only smart kids for raw materials, this finely wrought system of enforced peer ridicule, complete lack of intellectual stimulation, disillusionment to authority, and stultifying bureaucracy forged droves of insecure, egotistical, but beloved software developers. To what bastion of betterment can we credit these brilliant results? Our Public School System - "Boring the brightest minds since before your parents were born" (SM).
So now, when G-Dog sends you his next website update for release to the production server, muttering "betta' reconize ma' skills, biotch!" you'll know that he's just one among many of your co-workers who've benefited from these wonderful outreach programs that help us change our lives for the better. But if you're handling the production release, you must be a sysadmin, so you already know this... No, I will NOT come with you into the server closet for a minute! Hey, don't touch me there...
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Sure, it's a fine idea to train gangstas to "bang" out web pages, but it's not new. We've been seeing the results of programs like these for years, but without recognizing them - our co-workers in corporate America. For your consideration...
Ever wonder where sysadmins come from? The Repeat-Sexual-Offender Rehabilitation Program - they took the most recalcitrant rapists and molesters in our prison systems and trained them to provide system administration services for corporate IT/DP organizations! Keep that in mind the next time your sysadmin smiles and tells you your access has been revoked and your backups have been lost - things will make a lot more sense.
Still don't believe me? Want to know how those drooling dolts running your eBusiness group got their start? Thank the EMFLP (eBusiness MBAs for Lobotomy Patients) program. Based on proprietary research demonstrating that the lack of an intact frontal lobe doesn't significantly decrease the decision success-rate of an eBusiness manager, the daring EMFLP initiative provided a constant flow of warm bodies into the management layers of the Fortune 500, just in time for them to help those businesses devise their e-strategies and avoid being left behind in the dot-com race!
And how could we forget the humble origins of our favorite class of recycled misfits - the software developers? Only the most carefully planned, highly efficient organization could salvage these diamonds in the rough! With only smart kids for raw materials, this finely wrought system of enforced peer ridicule, complete lack of intellectual stimulation, disillusionment to authority, and stultifying bureaucracy forged droves of insecure, egotistical, but beloved software developers. To what bastion of betterment can we credit these brilliant results? Our Public School System - "Boring the brightest minds since before your parents were born" (SM).
So now, when G-Dog sends you his next website update for release to the production server, muttering "betta' reconize ma' skills, biotch!" you'll know that he's just one among many of your co-workers who've benefited from these wonderful outreach programs that help us change our lives for the better. But if you're handling the production release, you must be a sysadmin, so you already know this... No, I will NOT come with you into the server closet for a minute! Hey, don't touch me there...
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