[Novalug] Hiring - woes

[luigi12081 at cox.net]

---- Ken Kauffman <kkauffman at headfog.com> wrote: 
> Luigi! Such pessimism.  :)  Don't turn into one of those old disgruntled 
> tech people!

I'm young and disgruntled, but apparently non-technical.

> 
> If meetings are prepared and focused, they are productive.  When you 
> have technical people developing *business* applications, it always 
> requires face to face time to sift through it all.

Hey, at least that's *development.*  For the rest of us rubes in userspace, we get to have 'training' meetings.  I describe one such fiasco in my blog, so I'll just post the URL and save precious bandwidth:

http://ouij.livejournal.com/207935.html

I'm dealing with people who won't let go of their IBM Selectrics, and who think paper selection on their printers means physically ripping out paper trays while the printer is running.  

 
> Sigh. Way too many people identify the technology before they identify 
> the business need.

An equally pernicious problem:  People identify the need, but misapply the technology.  If I get *one more* Excel spreadsheet with no actual mathematics in it, I'm going to scream.

-Luigi

> 
> Ken
> 
> luigi12081 at cox.net wrote:
> > ---- Dan Arico <dan_arico at aricosystems.com> wrote: 
> > 
> >> I can understand why some IT jobs have to be tied to a particular 
> >> location, but why should that be true for all or even most of them? 
> > 
> > Because if they can't drag you on-site, how can they have those vitally-important meetings wherein you waste time staring at PowerPoint slides of nothing?
> > 
> > -Luigi
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