What if the project is to save $X by outsourcing/offshoring and it is going bad?
The PHB's can't admit they are wrong and it isn't going well? Who gets the bad performance review? Why those who aren't management and had nothing to do with the bad decision in the first place.
Project management is not a profession. It is a joke.
I am currently training my replacements. It sucks, but I don't yet have another job to jump to. They are all tech school grads with 0 experience, and I am tasked with giving them 10+ years experience in one year. They are coming up with some sort of manual to train the people with *less* experience and training when they get back home. If I could afford it, I would run now. Many of my coworkers already have.
Not to say there aren't some talented people in the bunch, but most wouldn't get a first interview.
If you are being asked to do that, then the PHB's are looking for a cheaper option. Work on your resume and get out NOW. Otherwise, you will training your replacements.
Been there, done that, don't have the t-shirt.
Seriously, they are looking at cheaping labor costs in India/China/Godknowswhat3rdworldhellhole to send your jobs to. If they are asking for a lot of procedures on your work and maps on how it gets done, leave faster.
Ah yes, the slashdot knee-jerk reaction. I was commenting on the flight from CHILE, but written CHILI and made a joke. Thank you for the lesson that there is a big world out there.
If you are a programmer, then a High School Education won't get you in the door-- you need more schooling. The fast food places and the people that do the hiring there know that you are out the door the first time you get a better offer, so you get nothing there. I hate to say it, I know my degree means nothing in my chosen field, but it means something to employers.
Get yourself in to your local 2 year school at least and suffer through it. Once you are in school you can get the job mopping floors at the fast food joint: they think you need the work and will give you a job knowing you have a least a couple of years with them. Then you can go on to bigger and better things.
I'm in IT because I fell into it in the early 90's after graduating with a useless degree. Believe me, not all IT is fun and lucrative. I'm a router jockey, and with my company announcing cuts every day, I'm afraid. My job can be done anywhere, and probably will be. I wouldn't tell my kid to go in to this field.
For factories (for example) or retail, a small machine running XP embedded that only connect to terminal servers would be the best way to go. Why spend $$$$ on a machine sitting on a factory floor with all the software they'll never use? If I had the talent I would create a dumb windows terminal that could do this.
Go ahead. Take the idea. I won't sue and use this post as prior art.
I travel a lot in my job, inside the US and outside. Locals can direct you to places, but you have to be careful what you ask. While in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, I was told once that the best local restaraunt was a TGI Fridays. Really. But ask them where they go to get a good inexpensive meal (Friday's is expensive there) and I have found some outstanding local places.
I just moved as well, and my wife is astounded that I can find a good burger joint or pizza place in our new local. Easy. They don't have the biggest nor smallest ad in the local phone book. They have a neon sign that might not have worked for many years. Granted, it isn' gourmet, but you don't go to Nick Tahou's for gourmet.
I thought I paid for my mac.com email account when I bought the computer. Those of us who use Macs paid a premium, and I thought that the iTools services were a perk.
Oh well, I have an ISP and a backup system. No need to use iTools anymore.
I can still see. And it was kind of like looking through Mylar at a light bulb. It was a data CD, if it was painted I doubt it would have worked at all.
I've actually had success looking at an esclipse through a CD. I was in the Netherlands during an eclipse in 1999 and the CD worked great. Of course, people look at you funny if you are standing on the street with a CD held up against your face.....
I would hate for this to lead the local stores of national chains to change what they carry based on what people in my area were more "likely" to purchase. Just like targetted advertising, their squeezing dollars leads to less local choice.
I know that I can look online and make decisions on what I might like, but the seredipity of finding something in the stacks is one of my greatest thrills (yes, my life *is* that boring...)
Lack of memory is the problem. I run a G3 "Snow" iMac, and when I decided to get in to OS X whole hog, I bought a 512mb chip and threw it in. It works great. The response time is good, and doesn't temporarily "freeze" like my Win2K laptop, with 1 gig of ram.
Those with MIS degrees wound up in Logistics and planning, and those with CS degrees wound up programming for them.
The former are promoted much faster than the latter.
Those of us with degrees in 'OTHER' (myself included) wound up in user/LAN/Network support, where we all are from the "Island of Misfit Toys".....
(watch old Christmas Specials to get the last reference.)
As an Oingo Boingo Fanatic (and a Former Member of the Oingo Boingo Secret Society) I find this really offensive. I hope Danny Elfman and the boys sue Earthlink.
BTW, To you younger slashdotters: Find yourselves some Oingo Boingo music. They were one of the most creative and varied bands of the 80's. Kinda punk\ska\earlytechno, even a country style song. Great dance and party music. (sorry for the shameless plug, but what the hell. They are still my favorites!)
I remember a "Duckman" episode (one of the funniest cartoons ever) in which Duckman is in a trailer park. The park is hit by a tornado and boxes start falling from the sky. Duckman asks a resident what they are. His reply 'Neilson boxes. Whole park's got 'em".
Speaks volumes about the feelings of a good show that never really showed up in the ratings.
While I don't feel comfortable about any company cataloging everything I watch so they can sell me things better, I would like to see a more expansive rating of what people really watch. Of course, my tastes represent only my tastes, but I can't be the only one out there who hates most of the sitcoms and reality shows that the networks foist upon us.
My first day at a computer related job (helping users) in '94 I found a computer with NATAS. That was one nasty virus. A real bitch to get rid of. And the computer had to be completed cleaned and re-installed. Then, upon scanning, I found several more that also had been infected, but it hadn't popped up and decimated the.exe and.com files yet. What a mess.
The new worm/virus phenomena is more of an annoyance. I keep my servers patched and protected, but I get 20+ emails a day from my users (all properly paranoid) about the new virus they heard about while driving in to work. That is the worst part.
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What if the project is to save $X by outsourcing/offshoring and it is going bad?
The PHB's can't admit they are wrong and it isn't going well? Who gets the bad performance review? Why those who aren't management and had nothing to do with the bad decision in the first place.
Project management is not a profession. It is a joke.
I am currently training my replacements. It sucks, but I don't yet have another job to jump to. They are all tech school grads with 0 experience, and I am tasked with giving them 10+ years experience in one year. They are coming up with some sort of manual to train the people with *less* experience and training when they get back home. If I could afford it, I would run now. Many of my coworkers already have.
Not to say there aren't some talented people in the bunch, but most wouldn't get a first interview.
If you are being asked to do that, then the PHB's are looking for a cheaper option. Work on your resume and get out NOW. Otherwise, you will training your replacements.
Been there, done that, don't have the t-shirt.
Seriously, they are looking at cheaping labor costs in India/China/Godknowswhat3rdworldhellhole to send your jobs to. If they are asking for a lot of procedures on your work and maps on how it gets done, leave faster.
Modded "offtopic"? I guess I am old enough to find it funny.
Ah yes, the slashdot knee-jerk reaction. I was commenting on the flight from CHILE, but written CHILI and made a joke. Thank you for the lesson that there is a big world out there.
The joys of posting!
Chili? The small town outside of Rochester, New York? I didn't even know they had a airport. Things have changed since I left.
If you are a programmer, then a High School Education won't get you in the door-- you need more schooling. The fast food places and the people that do the hiring there know that you are out the door the first time you get a better offer, so you get nothing there. I hate to say it, I know my degree means nothing in my chosen field, but it means something to employers.
Get yourself in to your local 2 year school at least and suffer through it. Once you are in school you can get the job mopping floors at the fast food joint: they think you need the work and will give you a job knowing you have a least a couple of years with them. Then you can go on to bigger and better things.
I work in networking, and we get "fiber cut in Texas by a Farmer" about once a year. Our site is in a rural area, and there is only one pipe to there.
That and we once got a "drunk driver hit a roadside pole", also in Texas.
I'm in IT because I fell into it in the early 90's after graduating with a useless degree. Believe me, not all IT is fun and lucrative. I'm a router jockey, and with my company announcing cuts every day, I'm afraid. My job can be done anywhere, and probably will be. I wouldn't tell my kid to go in to this field.
It was good while it lasted.
Flame me, mark me as an off comment, but......
/. was a place for geeks, but when the discussion gets to how to misspell chinese characters in unicode, WOW.
I knew that
Good work folks. Nothing to see here. Move along.
For factories (for example) or retail, a small machine running XP embedded that only connect to terminal servers would be the best way to go. Why spend $$$$ on a machine sitting on a factory floor with all the software they'll never use? If I had the talent I would create a dumb windows terminal that could do this.
Go ahead. Take the idea. I won't sue and use this post as prior art.
I travel a lot in my job, inside the US and outside. Locals can direct you to places, but you have to be careful what you ask. While in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, I was told once that the best local restaraunt was a TGI Fridays. Really. But ask them where they go to get a good inexpensive meal (Friday's is expensive there) and I have found some outstanding local places.
I just moved as well, and my wife is astounded that I can find a good burger joint or pizza place in our new local. Easy. They don't have the biggest nor smallest ad in the local phone book. They have a neon sign that might not have worked for many years. Granted, it isn' gourmet, but you don't go to Nick Tahou's for gourmet.
I thought I paid for my mac.com email account when I bought the computer. Those of us who use Macs paid a premium, and I thought that the iTools services were a perk.
Oh well, I have an ISP and a backup system. No need to use iTools anymore.
I can still see. And it was kind of like looking through Mylar at a light bulb. It was a data CD, if it was painted I doubt it would have worked at all.
I've actually had success looking at an esclipse through a CD. I was in the Netherlands during an eclipse in 1999 and the CD worked great. Of course, people look at you funny if you are standing on the street with a CD held up against your face.....
I would hate for this to lead the local stores of national chains to change what they carry based on what people in my area were more "likely" to purchase. Just like targetted advertising, their squeezing dollars leads to less local choice.
I know that I can look online and make decisions on what I might like, but the seredipity of finding something in the stacks is one of my greatest thrills (yes, my life *is* that boring...)
Lack of memory is the problem. I run a G3 "Snow" iMac, and when I decided to get in to OS X whole hog, I bought a 512mb chip and threw it in. It works great. The response time is good, and doesn't temporarily "freeze" like my Win2K laptop, with 1 gig of ram.
As someone much wiser than I once said:
About 100 years. They all start out as cults.
You've obviously never worked at tech support for a large company. Many of them are idiots.
Those with MIS degrees wound up in Logistics and planning, and those with CS degrees wound up programming for them.
The former are promoted much faster than the latter.
Those of us with degrees in 'OTHER' (myself included) wound up in user/LAN/Network support, where we all are from the "Island of Misfit Toys".....
(watch old Christmas Specials to get the last reference.)
As an Oingo Boingo Fanatic (and a Former Member of the Oingo Boingo Secret Society) I find this really offensive. I hope Danny Elfman and the boys sue Earthlink.
BTW, To you younger slashdotters: Find yourselves some Oingo Boingo music. They were one of the most creative and varied bands of the 80's. Kinda punk\ska\earlytechno, even a country style song. Great dance and party music. (sorry for the shameless plug, but what the hell. They are still my favorites!)
I remember a "Duckman" episode (one of the funniest cartoons ever) in which Duckman is in a trailer park. The park is hit by a tornado and boxes start falling from the sky. Duckman asks a resident what they are. His reply 'Neilson boxes. Whole park's got 'em".
Speaks volumes about the feelings of a good show that never really showed up in the ratings.
While I don't feel comfortable about any company cataloging everything I watch so they can sell me things better, I would like to see a more expansive rating of what people really watch. Of course, my tastes represent only my tastes, but I can't be the only one out there who hates most of the sitcoms and reality shows that the networks foist upon us.
My first day at a computer related job (helping users) in '94 I found a computer with NATAS. That was one nasty virus. A real bitch to get rid of. And the computer had to be completed cleaned and re-installed. Then, upon scanning, I found several more that also had been infected, but it hadn't popped up and decimated the .exe and .com files yet. What a mess.
The new worm/virus phenomena is more of an annoyance. I keep my servers patched and protected, but I get 20+ emails a day from my users (all properly paranoid) about the new virus they heard about while driving in to work. That is the worst part.
OK, it is time to Nuke Mecca.
Let's recolonize them
Yes, but corporate America needs to read this, with more facts and figures in the Wall Street Journal.
/. nor anandtech.
The folks who make those decisions don't read