RE: Management attitudes to Education (was COMMON rates )

What a horror story!

Jon, you've probably heard me say it before, but I attended COMMON back in 1999 
because I asked them to send me when they asked "what can we do for you" at 
review time.  Upon my return, my head full of fresh ideas, the only things my 
project leader or IT director asked were "how were the bars".
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Paris [mailto:Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 12:55 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Management attitudes to Education (was COMMON rates )


 >> Omigawd!?! That's got to be the most depressing and disturbing thing
I've read since returning back to work from my LOA.

I agree with you Hans - although I don't find it as disturbing as the story
told to me by one programmer who returned from vacation to find that his
boss has reverse engineered his nice RPG IV program back into RPG III
because "he couldn't understand it".  How one can understand well enough to
reverse engineer but not to maintain remains a mystery to me!  If that were
an isolated story it would be bad enough - but similar tales have been told
by others on this list.

My feeling is that if the manager is prepared to pay for _any_ education he
should be able to provide it in a form that he finds acceptable.  So his
"rules" re what the education should comprise are somewhat restrictive.
Better that than the poor devils I met a few weeks back who had to return to
work after a User Group meeting because attending and educational seminar
didn't count as "work"!

Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com


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