Re: OT: sound minds, and the benefit of hindsight

In article <47803A43.6020501@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
In article <13nunthlrf2ie49@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John Wallace" <johnwallace4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"ChrisQuayle" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bill Gunshannon wrote:


The whole company has no problem noticing Microsoft Windows. And the
money from that just goes into someone else's coffers. Great way to
run a business.

bill


The amazing thing to me, even years after the event, was the way that HP
took an industry leading architecture and tossed it away as though it
were worthless. Even now, such a decision doesn't look like the product
of sound minds - irrational from any view. How can anyone take such a
company seriously after such a fiasco and all the politics and other
crap that's gone down since ?.

At least Sun is still flying the flag of innovation - have you looked at
Solaris 10 yet ? - Everything Tru64 would have grown into and a company
that looks like it understands the meaning of the phrases 'business
ethics' and 'pursuit of excellence'.

Remember, it took Intel 10 years to catch up with Alpha - that's how far
ahead it was. Rest in Peace perhaps, but not forgotten :-)...


I don't know much about Sun, and whether their current situation is the
result of good judgement or good luck. Where's Andrew these days (oh, I
forgot, he had so much faith in Sun's future that he went to the Dark Side,
iirc. Or perhaps Sun had so much faith in his future :)).


In this business changing employers at intervals is the norm rather
than the exception. It probably means nothing. I have been with
the same employer for 18 years. All it appears to have done is make
it harder to find a new position now that I feel it is becoming
necessary.

bill


Look at it in a positive way. If you've been there eighteen years, you
have almost certainly held three or four positions increasingly more
responsible and better paid than the one you started with!

Wanna bet?


Wise employers try to retain good people! Hiring and training new
people from outside is a high expense, high risk, activity.

You have never worked here. They frequently drive out qualified people
only to replace them with unqualified people. I started here as the
networking guru before moving out of production and into the academic
side of the house after building the first network and making this
University the first one on the INTERNET in NEPA. There have been three
people in that position since. The first two had less than a year of
networking experience and left for better jobs as sson as they had enough
experience to actually put it on their resumes. The current came here
from a position as a medical electronics equipment repairman.


I spent twenty-four years working for Princeton University. My long
tenure there did not seem to negatively impact my subsequent career. I
got at least five jobs worth of varied experience out of the deal.

I have added lots of experience, but about the only places that seem
to see value in it are other schools, who pay equally poorly. I do
have to admit, I had one decent offer but we failed to agree on thngs
outside of salary so I declined the position. And, contrary to what
a lot of people may believe, I am certain my age is always considered
when I apply and it isn't considered a plus. (They may not be allowed
to ask your age, but when your job experience goes back to 1968 they
can pretty well figure it out!!)

bill


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