Logicack sacking 1300 people

[Mich the Tester]

Seeing as they seem to do this with metronomic regularity, perhaps something they've learned from the CMG days, why do people ever bother joining them?

[The Spartan]

Does this mean there will be more skilled people on the market to contend with?

[Mich the Tester]

Does this mean there will be more skilled people on the market to contend with?

Well, more logicackers, decide for yourself if you want to call them skilled.

[The Spartan]

Well, more logicackers, decide for yourself if you want to call them skilled.

This is true, but I've seen many people who can talk the talk get jobs. How long have you been a tester Mich?

[SimonMac]

This is true, but I've seen many people who can talk the talk get jobs. How long have you been a tester Mich?

Do you need any skill to be a Tester? Evolution has shown any idiot can break something

[vetran]

Morrisons hiring 1200 so may be OK after all.

[Mich the Tester]

This is true, but I've seen many people who can talk the talk get jobs. How long have you been a tester Mich?

Oooh, 10 years or so; was a dba first.

[Mich the Tester]

Do you need any skill to be a Tester? Evolution has shown any idiot can break something

Ah, but not every idiot can break something with the exquisite beauty, timing and general panic causing brilliance that a really good tester can.

[Spacecadet]

Do you need any skill to be a Tester? Evolution has shown any idiot can break something

experience has shown that testers write test plans and pm's use the test period as an over run buffer for the rest of the project which means the carefully(?) crafted test plans are never used!

Testing must be one of the easiest and most infuriating jobs there is

[Mich the Tester]

Testing must be one of the easiest and most infuriating jobs there is

It doesn't infuriate me as long as I can invoice.

My father told me that to make a good living, it's best to either do something nobody else CAN do, or something nobody else WANTS to do. Seeing as my intellect precludes the former, I ended up doing the latter.