[ale] Awful story...

[Stephen R. Blevins]

If [3 Ltr. corp.] means what I think it means, please keep in mind that
[3 Ltr. corp.] has been in the forefront of defending Linux in the 
courts from the ravages of [a bad 3 Ltr. corp.], forcing them into 
bankruptcy.  *Every* large organization has pockets of brilliant 
competency and pockets of unbelievable stupidity, at the same time.

Stephen R. Blevins
srblevi at worldnet.att.net


aaron wrote:
> On 2009, Nov, 16, , at 7:56 AM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> 
>> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for- 
>> using.html
>>
>> Sorry to hear this, but I know it's true from the IBM side.
>>
>> You should've seen the blank stares among sales-droids trying
>> to sell us hardware when we would demand both fully GUI and
>> fully command-line manageable gear.  You'd swear you just told
>> them you needed a flux-capacitor and an Infinite Improbability
>> drive.
>>
>> If these big companies are going to tout their Linux compatibility
>> and their Linux friendliness, they need to also make sure to
>> understand that people that come a-calling from the Linux world
>> will have a higher likelihood than ever before of not having
>> Windows on the desktop.
>>
> 
> 
> The obvious fact in this classic nightmare story of
> totalitarian corporate structural failure is that it was
> the project manager at the three letter IT company who
> deserves to be fired and justifiably blacklisted from ever
> using the internet again. She is clearly an Incompetent
> Bureaucratic Monstrosity who has no business working as
> the manager of a McDonald's fry station, let alone in a
> major IT operation. She couldn't even pass the simplest
> single question information technology competency test
> ever given:  "What is Firefox?"
> 
> [3 Ltr. corp.] is clearly at fault and demonstrating equally
> massive incompetence by allowing such a clueless lump to
> hold a position of authority. They are also at fault for
> contracting companies to provide employment services and
> internet based testing services that are so massively
> incompetent that they fail to recognize even the most
> elementary components of the global open internet standards.
> 
> Rather than howl at the moon, I suggest howling at the
> [common] corporate incompetence that is the core of the problem.
> IT professionals the world over should Boycott the services
> of [3 Ltr. corp.] until they clean up their act by dismissing
> this kind of clearly incompetent management and cease
> contracting with such clearly incompetent employment and
> internet testing services companies.  It will be doing them
> a favor, because this kind of stupendous idiocy just makes
> them look like total buffoons, the kind of industry laughing
> stock that is incapable of attracting or retaining any kind
> of respectably skilled partners or employees.
> 
> 
> 
> peace
> aaron
> 
> 
> 
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