On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:45:44 +0000, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I imagine this is the norm for today because a well-educated, intelligent, >> worker costs a lot more than a pre-programmed drone. >> As a result, the industry is now flooded with hundreds of thousands of IT >> professionals fully capable of performing procedures they've been taught, >> but incapable of thinking through a problem. > >I personally take offense to the "drone" bashing. Because I'm a "drone" now, >apparently. > >All of these comments seem to be from the perspective of higher ups and folks >who've had - years-of experience on the mainframe. It simply isn't fair to >expect the same depth of knowledge from a (relatively) newcomer. Without a >doubt, the technology that is mainframe, is massive. It's not sane to expect >some 100,000 manuals get cooked right into an IT professional, when most of >the folks on this (& elsewhere) list have acquired the knowledge over years of >beating on their craft. > >You ought to consider the conditions under which we're working/learning. When >a service provider takes up your IT infrastructure service support, there's a >reason that it's achievable at just x% of what it cost earlier. No points for >figuring out where that money is cut out from. > When a service provide takes up the IT Infrastructure service at the expense of the people who were already working there and who do have years experience because the bean counters only see the $$s they save, then a certain amount of resentment is to be expected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
