[plug] Possible Job Offer

[Simon Scott]

	Hah. Interesting.

	I especially like the 'how to keep your job' part. To me that is the
number one thing most managers concentrate on.

	I dont really think 'management' is something that most techies
would aspire to. Middle management is the safest place to store morons -
they arent on the tools so they cant damage the end product directly, and
they dont run the place so they cant damage the company directly. 

	So, in short, my response would be

	a) What is it to be a manager? Being a manager means long days of
creating Excel spreadsheets that are limited in use, but thats ok cos noone
reads them anyway
	b) Qualifications? If you are doing at IT degree and aspire to be a
manager, bad luck. Youll either suck at IT so hard noone will trust you in a
management position, or youll be so useful in IT that theyll never want to
promote you. Go do a commerce degree.
	c) How to keep your job? Persitantly get others to sign off on
decisions that they made based on your flawed input, and then look the other
way when they get burned. Never make a decision yourself. Do work which is
pure gray area and has no valid right or wrong, like performance appraisal
or project estimation. At every opportunity, take the credit for others good
work, but only when you are positive that it is indeed good work.

	Basically, as Rove would say, 'What the?'




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	Subject:	[plug] Possible Job Offer

	This was sent to me by "David Emrich" <demrich at ihgtech.com.au>.
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	him please.

	----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
	[snip]

	I want to find (on pretty short notice, as usual) an IT manager
person who
	works at a medium to large scale IT department somewhere in Perth,
and who
	would be willing/able to lecture to a bunch of IT students for about
half an
	hour on "what it is to be an IT manager, what you have to do
	(qualifications/etc) to become one, and how to keep your job" and
probably
	field a few billion questions from wannabe IT people.

	Any chance that a PLUGger would be interested?

	David Emrich

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