RE: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?

true. i worked on a contract at a place that did exactly that. once they
started getting the lower level programmers asking for the job they were
told that the position was for one that was already taken. thanks to the
lax H1-B laws they satisfied the requirements just by posting the opening.


Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From: "Morgan, Paul" <Paul.Morgan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/10/2010 01:04 PM
Subject: RE: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?
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Jerry,

It's probably an H-1B visa advertisement. They have to show proof that
they advertised for the position and could find no one qualified to get
the visa approved. They advertise a position with multiple requirements
so that no local is qualified.

Paul Morgan

Principal Programmer Analyst
IS Supply Chain/Replenishment


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On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:35 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?

...

All of that said, hiring companies almost always put their requirements in
the form of languages and/or packages. Other want ads for any kind of
programmer are scarce (around here, anyway), invariably they list multiple
languages, not just one. And it was rarely the same mix across the want
ads. [Personally, I think those kinds of ads are written to meet the
qualification(s) of someone that they have already decided to hire but
want to appear to be an EOE. But that's just an opinion.]

...

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. - Samual Goldwyn