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On 2002.05.23 07:03 "Farnsworth, Dave" wrote:
> Or you can go straight into damagement. It requires no technical
> skills, no people skills and the innate ability to royally screw
> things up. Upon completion of screwing things up, leaving a mess for
> the DBA to cleanup, you then are promoted to a higher level damagement
> position with a pay raise.
>
Well, being a technically skilled expert helps even with the damagement
There is a guy that I know,who was promoted to the damagement and then
has
spent his days in vi editor and C++-compiler. Needless to say, he
didn't do
very much for the rest of us, techies.
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