RE: Rant-Rant

Here's the way I see it would develop:

Day one - lets' hire 2 Admin Dba's & 1 Tech Dba - cost = $20+$20+$40 = $80/hour

One year later - stock price drops - sales are slow - damager says "save money" - fire one Admin Dba, 2nd admin dba gets all the duties or is let go. new cost = $20+$40=$60
Damager also decides that the Tech Dba should be responsible for more SA activities - fires the lone SA person. saves another salary.

Another year later - again - stock price drops - sales are slow - damager fires remaining Admin Dba. Tech DBA reads the writing on the wall - either he/she will be working 80 hour weeks, or leaves the company - decides to quit.

where is the company now?

I can easily see the above happening. There are *many* people on this list that this has happened to. Except, they stayed at their company because there are not many positions available and they are stguck working with cell phones/pagers/beepers etc 24 hours a day.

todays market is driven by the stock price - not by the utopia you described.

have fun! :)

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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At 10:38 AM 7/22/2002 -0800, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:
>OMG! A Socialist in the group!

The irony is it sounds idealistic but it is hard nosed capitalism.

 From each according to his/her ability
To each according to his/her value.

The most successful organization will develop paradigms to effectively employ displaced mill workers etc. in IT.

You fill in the numbers for your organization:

Admin DBA Pay Range
$15/hr-$28/hr

Technical DBA pay range
$20/hr-$60/hr

Now how many can you afford and what is the right mix?

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