[plug] [Fwd: How to evaluate IT people] Be afraid! (-:

[Leon Brooks]

Xxxxx wrote, in a personal message to Leon and a few others:
> I had dinner with the manager of operations and IT at Barclays Bank
> [Country-name] [recently]. He is a career manager with little hands-on
> computing experience. We were discussing his IT manager and why
> the he was considering fireing him. Slightly paraphrased:

>   There's nothing wrong with his work really its just that he isn't
>   like *real* computer people. Real computer people are always coming
>   up with something new. You have to continually ride them to keep
>   pirated software off the systems. They are always coming up to you
>   and asking for some new toy or other (and I have learned to leave
>   some room in the budget for that). This guy just does his job and
>   goes home.

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