On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:51:23PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > I noticed very early on in my career (1980 or so) that management types > > had no concept of what I did, and considered engineers to be like > > interchangeable widgets. Like adjustable wrenches. Any adjustable wrench > > can turn any nut. > > Oh how I hate this, really. It's led to some rather interesting want ads > that I just have to laugh at. I mean people post ads looking for people well > versed in about 20 different technologies and expect to get by with a > sub-40k/year offer. It wouldn't be so bad except that they expect people to > already KNOW all of those technologies and fail to realize that at some point, > at least for software engineers, one who is well versed in some can pick up > any others fairly quickly. So on the one hand they expect the > interchangability but on the other ignore the possibility of it. >.< > That just goes to show the general cluelessness of many HR people. Like the adds that solicit people with 10 years of experience with Windows 2000 Server and .NET programming. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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