[TriLUG] New member re-location question

[Chris Magnus Hedemark]

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On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 08:39 AM, Michael Thompson wrote:

> I attribute *some* of the blame to these certification boot
> camps flooding the job market and pushing down salaries.

I attribute much more of the blame to hiring managers who can't tell 
the difference between a manufactured computer geek and a born computer 
geek.  They reward the boot camps by actually hiring the paper 
sysadmins right out of boot camp.

> Luckily, I don't have to work with people who are only qualified on
> paper anymore,

Your boss can actually tell the difference between a real computer geek 
and one that answered a radio ad.  If he weren't doing so well where he 
is at, I might be tempted to say he missed his true calling. ;-)

The sudden loss of IT jobs in this country is at least partly 
attributable to jobs moving to countries with cheap labor, like India 
or China.  When I was at a big blue company a few years back I saw jobs 
moving to India that used to be in Raleigh.  Maybe part of it was 
caused by IT guys hopping from job to job every 6 to 18 months in 
pursuit of higher pay, and employers scrambling to retain talent as 
long as they could.  Loyalty in the workplace is *gone*, with blame 
falling on both sides of the employee/employer relationship.
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