It is not an issue of being lazy. Some of these entry jobs are what people need while they are educating themselves. They also can be great places for companies to promote from within.
Many software companies use their tech support staff as a grooming area for their testing departments. I have seen many people choose a career in IT, programming, QA who first started in a call center position.
The concern is that these opportunities are not eliminated overseas.
You must be young. Borland used to have a PIM (sidekick), a database (DBase), a spreadsheet (Quattro) and a wordprocessor trying to compete with MS. Needless to say, MS won. Now Borland is focused on their development tools.
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They did not work in VT. Then again neither did my cell (Sprint). I had to pay the $6 an hour for the 800 number. Well, my company did anyway.
It is not an issue of being lazy. Some of these entry jobs are what people need while they are educating themselves. They also can be great places for companies to promote from within.
Many software companies use their tech support staff as a grooming area for their testing departments. I have seen many people choose a career in IT, programming, QA who first started in a call center position.
The concern is that these opportunities are not eliminated overseas.
Maria Gardner, UConn 1983, 7 month, 14 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes.
Dad used to talk about work at the dinner table. I can't imagine what it would be like being this Singapore Zoologist's son.
Son: How was work today dad?
Dad: Rhino day.
Son: Oh, pass the potatoes.
I will take into consideration you wrote this at 2am but it is still wrong, so wrong.
Do that many of us secretly desire to be marine biologists or is it a slow news day?
You must be young. Borland used to have a PIM (sidekick), a database (DBase), a spreadsheet (Quattro) and a wordprocessor trying to compete with MS. Needless to say, MS won. Now Borland is focused on their development tools.
Do you mean Vicissitude?