RE: Growing your own programmers

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Before I became a programmer (some people might say the use of the past
tense is a little premature), I spent 13 years in a job where I had to drive
a fork lift quite often.  There are a lot of things you can do with a fork
lift that take a surprising amount of intelligence and coordination.  It's
not surprising that many people can't learn to drive one well.  I only got
to moderately skilled, myself.

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The above is my personal opinion and is not intended to represent good
programming practice or the product of a sound mind.

Joel Fritz 

-----Original Message-----
From: DAsmussen@aol.com [mailto:DAsmussen@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 8:10 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Growing your own programmers


Howard,

In a message dated 6/21/99 10:10:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil writes:

> Point taken! I just need to stay out of the way of those forklift drivers 
that
>  *should NOT  be* :)

ROFL!! The last time my office was located in the plant, had one of those on

an _EXTREMELY_ quiet electric model while most of our forklifts were of the 
noisy, gas powered variety.  The guy _finally_ got canned after he 
accumulated nearly $100K worth of damaged material -- the fact that he had 
almost _KILLED_ me twenty times over the previous two years had no impact on

his employment record...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Who would ever need more than 640K of memory and a 30 meg hard drive?" -- 
visionary Bill Gates
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