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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr
- Subject: Re: I don't want to keep looking for new jobs.
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:26:45 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Sender: choy@skorpio (I am a terminator.)
- Message-ID: <1hd6e5INNigi@access.usask.ca>
- References: <1992Dec21.194434.1455@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <BzMox1.Jyt@vcd.hp.com> <AfBaf8K00iUx4443V6@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec22.152507.12868@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.152507.12868@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo) writes:
- |> >>If we engineers must expect to have many jobs rather than a few,
- |> >>then perhaps we should pursue education in breadth rather than in depth.
-
- Note: Breadth and depth clash when you have a limited time, but there are
- deep analogies that can be carried broadly.
-
- We can go deeper and broader faster when we have access to lots of well-written
- and completely written deep material.
-
-
- |>
- |> >We need more company managers (like Ed Moore's HP bosses) who recognize that
- |> >a well-trained and CROSS-TRAINED staff is far more useful than a whole room
- |> >full of specialists.
- |>
- |> The recent trend to decentralize organizations has led to an
- |> unwillingness to support technical specialists. The problem is
- |> that when managers are forced to look no further than their own
- |> relatively small bottom lines, they become reluctant to keep
- |> specialists on staff.
-
- My opinion is that management and staff are not working hard enough to find
- work. Specialists should show what their special knowledge can do, and
- managers should find work that requires specialists.
-
- --
-
- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
-
- Hey kids, start jumping up and down like idiots.
-
- Looking for LOG for a good price?
-
- Dial 1-800-byBLAMO !!!!
-
- "Log rolls down stairs. Rolls over in pairs.
- Rolls over your neighbor's dog.
- It's good for a snack. It fits on your back.
- It's LOG LOG LOG!!!!"
-
- -- Ren * Stimpy
-