"by and large it seemed like most of these applicants got very little broad-coverage training in the real IT world"
Like how? Do military computers run on different electricity that the rest and do they breakdown differently also?
`in the interview questions about where they saw themselves in 3 to five years of working for us was "to become the senior manager/director of the whole IT department"'
No-one in their right mind would ever say such thing at an interview. Especially after coming from such a hierarchy like environment like the US military.
"One particular worst offender would take a master copy of the full corporate MS Office Professional edition and install it on every desktop he touched regardless of whether the customer had purchased the full version for that machine or not"
Since when would an ex military go about doing what he pleases. Did you pause here merely to inject a little 'your IT staff cannot be trusted' fud for the PHBs who might me reading this.
'the sooner he could get the boss in trouble or fired, the better chance he thought he'd have to move up, take over and "rule with an iron fist".`
Without any corroborating evidence to back up these anecdotal tales I suspect your whole story is a work of fiction.
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"by and large it seemed like most of these applicants got very little broad-coverage training in the real IT world"
Like how? Do military computers run on different electricity that the rest and do they breakdown differently also?
`in the interview questions about where they saw themselves in 3 to five years of working for us was "to become the senior manager/director of the whole IT department"'
No-one in their right mind would ever say such thing at an interview. Especially after coming from such a hierarchy like environment like the US military.
"One particular worst offender would take a master copy of the full corporate MS Office Professional edition and install it on every desktop he touched regardless of whether the customer had purchased the full version for that machine or not"
Since when would an ex military go about doing what he pleases. Did you pause here merely to inject a little 'your IT staff cannot be trusted' fud for the PHBs who might me reading this.
'the sooner he could get the boss in trouble or fired, the better chance he thought he'd have to move up, take over and "rule with an iron fist".`
Without any corroborating evidence to back up these anecdotal tales I suspect your whole story is a work of fiction.