On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Captian Oblivious wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > >> I'm trying, but I'm really hard pressed to think of a car company that >> would let anyone design a car that didn't know how brakes worked. >> >> Maybe the cad program has the "Tools->Insert->Brake system" >> option....maybe..... >> >> > Ok, ignore the car analogy for a second-- > > Do you, or don't you, need to have more knowledge than is required to do > your job? > > We'll disregard efficiency, and those other, for this thought experiment, > tertiary factors.
If you disregard those factors, what good is the [job] position? I hate this whole "cog in a machine" mentality. Sure, it sucks when you're the only one who can do something (I'm in that position, and even if things were awesome at work, there is still the chance that I'd get creamed in a car wreck (or scooter crash;), and where are we then?), but somehow the idea of redundancy has been perverted into a "dumbing down" of the workforce, which will only cost us in the long run. One of the projects I work on (unofficially-- strictly overtime) has been looking for a coder for months now. It's been real amazing seeing the various skill levels and whatnot, and what people charge for their knowledge and whathaveyou. You've got people who don't know squat, wanting $$$... meanwhile, some kid at the coffee shop knows more but is getting paid minimum wage? I'm going to see if I can wrangle me up a coffee shop guru. Yup, that's my plan. Time to start networking again. Or socializing, for that matter. Not that you guys aren't soooo much fun! It's just not healthy being so curmudgeonly. -- Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262098 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
