RE: Common attendance...NOT -- MIDRANGE-L

RANT(*ON)

It has been my experience that MIS is considered overhead in slmost all
shops except those whose job it is to produce software.  As overhead, we are
supplied with just enough resources (manpower) to keep us overwhelmed with
work until someone somewhere isn't satisfied that his pet project isn't
moving forward due to lack of resources.  Rather than hiring more MIS
resources (also known as overhead) a contractor or consultant is brought in
to temporarily get such a project completed in a "timely" manner... and then
leave behind more stuff for the the permanent staff to support in their
already overloaded agenda.  I once asked a headhunter to find me a place
that understood the value of technology to the bottom line of the
organization and believed in doing things right.  He is a good and trusted
headhunter... and he didn't call me for a year.  When he did, he had found
the place I was looking for.  While working there I was actually sent to
some training classes and had mentors to learn from.  We were asked how long
a project would take, not told how long it would take by someone who had no
idea.  Then they went public... game over.  Just about anything new I've
ever learned in this man's army was done on my own time... after hours or
during lunch... nevermind that the productivity increases gained through
such efforts were realized by my company during business hours...
refinements of my daily tasks and increased quality and efficiency of future
projects.  The bottom line is... the bottom line.  Too bad so many companies
don't understand what the REAL bottom line is.

RANT(*OFF)


-----Original Message-----
From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 5:03 PM
To: Dennis Munro
Cc: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Common attendance...NOT




Dennis,

no offense to you or your company dude, but if they're not interested in
your keeping current, perhaps it's time to find a company that is...

Don in DC

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dennis Munro wrote:

> We budgeted for one Common trip a year last year & this year but when you
> are in the gas & oil industry sector, money is VERY TIGHT and budgeted or
> not, you don't go.  When everybody in the company takes a pay cut, things
> like conventions are considered "frivolous" (not my choice of word) no
> matter how much I plead.
> 
> It has been a number of years since I've been and I really wanted to go
but
> the word is NO WAY.  Not a question of not wanting, I just can't go.
> 
> Dilbert's Words Of Wisdom:
> "I love deadlines.  I especially like the whooshing sound they make as
they
> go flying by."
> 
> Dennis Munro  
> Badger Mining Corporation
> dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com <mailto:dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com> 
> 
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Don [SMTP:dr2@cssas400.com]
>       Sent:   Wednesday, August 04, 1999 9:26 AM
>       To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
>       Subject:        Common attendance...
> 
> 
> 
>       OK, now that we've gotten the echo's of folks attending, I'd be
> interested
>       on why folks are NOT going....and I don't buy that "story" that it's
> all
>       Y2K based....
> 
>       
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