[geeks] STARBUCKS SHIT -- the name game now

[Michael A. Turner]

	You just hit on one of my main pet peeves these days, changing a job
name to sound like it is more important. The one I keep hearing that
absolutely drives me into a frenzy is the ECPI adds . WTF is a "Technical
Engineer" or a "Desk Top Support Specialist"? One is hell desk, I know I
worked their, but I cannot even begin to decide what the real world term for
a "Technical Engineer" I think we may refer to them here as "intern who
makes cat 5 cables" but I am not sure. 
	I cheered when the state of Texas told Microsoft that they could not
call MCSE's engineers as to be an engineer you have to pass a state
certification test. I wish more places would do that. Frankly I think it
should be MCSL with the L being lackey, but then I am preaching to the choir
here. 
	And as a future note, since these messages do get archived and end
up on the internet, When I worked at my last job one of my duties was to go
through the potential hires. I was to separate the pile into three, the
No's, the Maybes and the yeses. All of the yeses were called back, some of
the maybes got calls, depending on how bad we needed people, and the no's
were all pitched (usually by me right then). One of the things that was an
immediate NO was if I saw ECPI ANYWHERE on your resume, be it graduated from
or attending (the usual case). I believe the other managers did the same,
our experience with that school was so poor in the quality of people we got
that we couldn't take the time to fix them. We figured if you had not
learned enough to keep ECPI off your resume, then we did not need to hire
you. Just wanted to say that to any potential candidates out their that are
searching around for a school choice before the spend their $16K.

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:51 AM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] STARBUCKS SHIT
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:35:25AM -0400, Matthew Braun wrote:
> > I'm sure that a professional barista with a pump driven (rather than
> > steam driven which I believe these are) setup could make a 
> better cup,
> 
> "professional".  I would hardly call someone that works at a 
> coffee shop
> a "professional".  Whats next, "caffeine-containing beverage 
> engineer" ?
> "Hot water and ground-up beans specalist" ?
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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