Reply to: New grads from top universities ...

[Bagpuss]

It's not just younger people, many so called (sounding like Chico here) educated people have little or no common sense and little general knowledge.

Whereas I could give the Eggheads a run for their money! (those on the bench might know what I'm talking about)

[hyperD]

...are rubbish! Have two in my team now. Got to talking to them in t'pub yesterday and somehow the conversation came round to modern history. Turns out they'd never heard of Franco and the Spanish civil war. Or Tulipmania in Holland. Only a hazy idea of the Great depression - or even the recession of the 90s. I could go on. No wonder the idiots think debt is OK ....

They are idiots - even I know Francko, he posted here the other day.

[expat]

might as well have been tulipe

Oi! You can't say tulipe on here!

[oracleslave]

...are rubbish! Have two in my team now. Got to talking to them in t'pub yesterday and somehow the conversation came round to modern history. Turns out they'd never heard of Franco and the Spanish civil war. Or Tulipmania in Holland. Only a hazy idea of the Great depression - or even the recession of the 90s. I could go on. No wonder the idiots think debt is OK ....

Went to the pub yesterday with my team leader and the other sucker that joined this dead-end company.Figured it would be a larf to see the old git loosen up a little and buy us a few rounds. Turns out he is a tight old fart (I mean he drives an Aygo ffs) who just drivelled on about some old war and actually shed a tear when regaling us with tales of his maths classes of yesteryear.

[Moscow Mule]

And those of us onshore who can code, will be on a gazillion spondoolicks a minute.

With the rampant inflation we're going to get soon, a loaf of bread will cost a gazillion spondoolicks.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

That's what they were saying 20 years ago, along with programmes that would write themselves from a specification, and how the tools would be so simple to use, the business people could do the work without the need for experts or even code monkeys.

What they forgot was IT is so dull, those with money will gladly keep paying us to do it for them.

What they also forgot was how few people outside IT can even manage to switch a computer on or off in a competent manner let alone write a simple report or spreadsheet.

[DiscoStu]

There'll always be work for the best.

Now I'm really in trouble.

[DiscoStu]

Any new grad going into IT now must be really stupid. 20 years all coding will be done offshore.

Less than 10...

[BrilloPad]

And those of us onshore who can code, will be on a gazillion spondoolicks a minute.

When will onshoring start? Please let it be this year.

[BrilloPad]

That's what they were saying 20 years ago, along with programmes that would write themselves from a specification, and how the tools would be so simple to use, the business people could do the work without the need for experts or even code monkeys.

What they forgot was IT is so dull, those with money will gladly keep paying us to do it for them.

exactly! but the new grads don't know this - so we make shedloads!

though personally I don't find development boring - it is just all the red tape and idiots that get me down.

[sasguru]

That's where it all falls down, of course...

Doesn't matter, we'll all be "Change Managers", "Strategy Consultants" and "Thought Leaders" anyway. Boomed!

[smiff]

20 years all coding will be done offshore.

Will be one use for those redundant oil platforms and rigs.

[PAH]

Any new grad going into IT now must be really stupid. 20 years all coding will be done offshore.

That's what they were saying 20 years ago, along with programmes that would write themselves from a specification, and how the tools would be so simple to use, the business people could do the work without the need for experts or even code monkeys.

What they forgot was IT is so dull, those with money will gladly keep paying us to do it for them.

[NotAllThere]

There'll always be work for the best.

That's where it all falls down, of course...

[NotAllThere]

Any new grad going into IT now must be really stupid. 20 years all coding will be done offshore.

And those of us onshore who can code, will be on a gazillion spondoolicks a minute.