Re: [TML] [Freelance Traveller] CALL FOR MATERIAL Jeff Zeitlin 26 Jul 2020 19:06 UTC
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 08:49:48 +0000 (UTC), "Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance Traveller: >And then you have the civil-service type institutions where the employees >jobs are 'protected' to varying degrees.That;s where I worked for decades & >that's where you get the practice of just assigning the employees who used >to service the legacy system/software to servicing the new >system/software.With varying degrees of success or failure. And that's where I work now; I've never made any effort to conceal that I "geek computers for the NYPD". But it's not _just_ Civil Service; I know people who work for certain large companies, and even though said company misspelled its name to indicate the number of new ideas they wanted to get from their people, the corporate mentality - and the "IT Guy As Perfect Generalist" attitude - is taking over there, too. ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2020. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)