Re: IBM Secret (Was Copy to New AS400 via TCP)

Some of the places I go haven't been able to hire the level of help they
want so they turn to contractors at high rates to do trivial jobs. 
They've been doing this for 5 or more years.  

I suggest sometimes that they hire a couple of promising but not skilled
people and bring them in and take the time needed to teach them.  They
could work as shadows to trained staff for 6 or 8 months, and they could
do trivial work.  In a surprisingly short time they'd have useful
programmers.  Usually the answer is "As soon as we train them they leave." 
I drop the conversation there because what they don't say is they have no
intention of paying decent wages to someone they've trained in-house.  
It's too bad too, because there's a lot of home-grown programmers out
there that are excellent.


In <3734F88D.2D5A7905@datadesigninc.com>, on 05/08/99 
   at 09:53 PM, nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com> said:

>> There's a BIG difference between wanting to hire a intern that hardly
>> knows what a editor is and needing to hire people that know what they're
>> doign and can be productive from the get go...


>for sure.  notice i said 'good'!  you can either get a diamond, a lump of
>coal, or anything in between.

>we'd be looking for someone that had training, showed aptitude, and
>interest.

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