[geeks] my head just went explodey

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at mail.zill.net
Sat Apr 2 20:21:44 CST 2005


On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:17:23PM -0500, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >
> >Yup.  It's not entirely by my choice.  IT re-org in mid-January, 
> >halfway
> >through the contract phase of what was supposed to be contract-to-hire;
> >new CTO won't let any division hire any IT staffer who doesn't have an
> >MCSE.  Even for the Cork site that's almost 100% Unix.
> >
> 
> My God, how does one become so stupid?

My guess would be that the CTO does not have a great deal of
hard-science or math background in his CV, or even that sort of
background in his hobbies or other parts of his life.

Thus he is going by "feeeelings" instead of a series of rational
decisions.

--Patrick



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