At 02:07 PM 11/27/02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Ronn!Blankenship > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: woensdag 27 november 2002 13:17 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Religion, the good side> GSV Those Who Can, Do: Those Who Can't Do, End Up In Management ROTFL! There is truth in many things -- and this is definitely one of them.
It's based on my observations from jobs I've held in the computer field.
Like the day when, after about two years working for that company, I arrived at the office one morning to discover that the combination to the lock on the computer room had been changed and that my login would no longer work. So I called someone to find out what was going on, and that person told me to ask my supervisor, who told me (by then, this was maybe 9:30 in the morning), "See me after lunch." He finally broke down a little later and told me, "Today is your last day." Though no one ever came out and said so, I could only guess that they thought I knew enough about the system to do something nasty if they had given me any warning, as no one else who had been let go previously had been treated that way. I decided to take it as a compliment to my programming skills rather than a suggestion that I might actually consider sabotage . . .
To make it even funnier, within a week I got a call from them asking me if I would come back as a temporary contractor and finish the project I was working on when they abruptly canned me: I suppose no one else there could figure it out. (Yes, I did. And I never considered doing any funny stuff . . .)
(I keep wondering if I should send the account of my experience to Scott Adams, but I don't know how he could fit it into a single strip, much less whether anyone would believe it if it came out as a comic: truth can definitely be stranger than fiction . . . )
A few years later, I was asked to teach a class on the basics of operating system design at one of those technical colleges. One day, one of my students asked me why I preferred _teaching_ programmers to actually working as a programmer . . .
If You've Read This Far The Answer Should Be Obvious Maru
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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