Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in news:91884734.0301031600.23af0dd1_at_posting.google.com and I quote:

>
> It's been a while, so I'm rusty in the details. But suffice it to
> say, it is the worst of the "certification being more important than
> ability to do the job" issue.

Bummer! Here I am thinking that for once something had been done right!

> fairly well known education and government people. A real problem
> with certification and analysing whether someone can do the job is the
> inability to factor in human variance and frailties.

and "un-audited contributions"...

> "In business, the worst SOB wins." Joseph Kennedy (paraphrased), one
> of the biggest SOB's, which is why he was able to be a really good SEC
> boss. He knew all of the dirty tricks.

Yeah, but this isn't business no? It's to do with employment, careers, etc.
Oh! I see what you mean...
:(

>
> My view is probably skewed from my experience, but I think most places
> still don't care about the well-trained and are willing to settle for
> cheap.

That's now that there is a glut. Give it another four or five years and there won't be. Then it's gonna get funny. I'm dying to see what "shift" we'll get then. Probably that crap called .NET...

>
> This purge happened a few years ago in the US, and there is a bit of a
> backlash now. I think the non-sense will be repeated ad infinitum,
> with larger swings as technology becomes more pervasive - people will
> continue to confuse technology with usefulness.

Narh! The middle management layers are all still there. What they purged was the "colleagues". What *needs* to be purged are the middle management layers that agreed with all that bull a few years ago!

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Nuno Souto
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