Yeah....I knew a fella with an MIS degree from Auburn who referred to "JavaScript" as "Java." I routinely wanted to strangle him for saying it.
In my opinion, MIS is a business management degree with enough computer training to make someone dangerous to their company. Either then need a proper management training program (is their such a thing?) or a proper computer science/engineering/systems degree. the amount of training/experience someone has in a subject is (in my opinion) inversely proportional to their danger when attempting to practice in that subject. for example, half educated => twice the danger. -- William Sutton On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Lance Brown wrote: > > > Mark Freeze wrote: > > One of the saddest things I have ever witnessed was a couple of years > > ago when I was running a company in Alabama. We had a temporary > > receptionist and I had to show her how to start and use Excel. All she > > really needed to to was data entry several sheets and then total a > > couple of columns, but, she had no clue how to get started. The sad > > part is that she was working at the temporary service because she had > > just graduated from Auburn with a 4-year degree in MIS and was looking > > for what she called 'a computer job.' > > Oh great Ghu... Whoever came up with MIS as a 4-year degree should be > taken out back, pummeled with a shovel about the head and shoulders, > shot with double-ought rocksalt, and then buried alive in ants. > > My experiences with folks holding MIS degrees range from mildly annoying > to outright terrifying, and experiences with students in MIS programs > have been blood curdling. > > --[Lance] > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
