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)
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Originally posted by sasguru View Post...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 ....
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Originally posted by sasguru View Post...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 ....
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostAnd those of us onshore who can code, will be on a gazillion spondoolicks a minute.
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Originally posted by PAH View PostThat'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.
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Originally posted by PAH View PostThat'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.
though personally I don't find development boring - it is just all the red tape and idiots that get me down.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostAny 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.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostThere'll always be work for the best.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostAny new grad going into IT now must be really stupid. 20 years all coding will be done offshore.
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