In a message to Anthony about Comment from Dieter, Paul said:

PE> A lot of good has come out of the recession.  Major
PE> milestones have been achieved, such as

Uh oh...

PE> 1) inflation is low so people don't have much to gain by
PE> negative gearing, so the country is stopping being a
PE> country of borrowers.

I don't know much about negative gearing to comment.

PE> 2) banks are stopping lending out money freely

Tick

PE> 3) no more hype and dickheads buying shares

Can you be more specific?

PE> 4) banks are stopping trying to be "leaders in information
PE> technology" - always such a joke that it is the banks job
PE> to be pioneers in that field.

Tick, albeit a bit unimportant?

PE> 5) wages of computer people are going down (not far enough for my
PE> liking).

Why would you of all people want that?

PE> 6) the more we get of 5), the more we will have the arena
PE> being enthusiasts only.

I can see benefits and drawbacks to that idea.  Care to elaborate on
what you find appealing about it?

PE> There are a lot of people cut out to do some sort of programming.
PE> As a programmer I can look around and see all the total dickheads
PE> who have jobs as programmers.

Paul, it's the same everywhere - basically, whether you like it or
not, it's quite normal.

PE> You may well not know what a computer operator is.  On MVS sites
PE> (at least) there may be 50,000 tapes for the site, and 20 tape
PE> drives. Whenever someone needs to run a job that reads from one
PE> file to another file, the tape needs to be mounted.  That is the
PE> operators job.  Same as changing printer paper when it runs out
PE> every 15 minutes or whatever.  Then there are more technical
PE> things, like running the production jobs (programs basically), and
PE> making sure they don't run out of space on the disk, or tape
PE> errors, or program errors. People forget their passwords, people's
PE> terminals don't work, that sort of thing.

Then it appears I am well aware of what a computer operator does.
It's just that you used the word 'operator', rather than 'computer
operator', so I had to ask to be sure...

PE> Anyway, it's a job that requires a brain the size of a small
PE> monkey to do, and the dickhead programmers should be redeployed as
PE> programmer/operators to replace any operators who only meet the
PE> minimum qualifications of an operator.

I thought you said you weren't a communist? ;)  Paul, this is
communism if ever I've heard it!  Second only to pigeon-holing kids
at an early age to become athletes in a specific sport and going to
the olympics...

'tnt, Amfony.


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