one and for all

recruitement should be based on pure skills (skills has in "man, this guy has *skills*) not on experience, age, gender, or anything else. i have seen 14 yo far better coders than many "i have 20 years of FORTRAN under the belt, so *of course* i am a good C coder. now get back to school *snortling*" so called professional coder.

every day we are confronted with code monkeys/ pseudo sysops which, as they have survived for a decade in the field (mainly by ducking a lot, and a*slicking even more) are screwing with our jobs. one of the exemples today. an application stops working mysteriously. of course, the client calls us (systems & network) bitching around how ne'er do well we are. and after a few hours digging into the binary (we don't have of course access to the source... we don't have their mad coding skills don't we ?) we finally discover a *huge* leak AND THREE OVERFLOWS. in a bubble sort. of course.

what do we do ? we call the dev team (of course, we have no bug management system...) which start to get mad, because that *can't* be them, no it's not worth to look, it just can't be them. they know how to code. we don't know our job. of course it's us. and valgrind ? what's that ? code coverage ? what ? what do you mean by Q&A. WE KNOW HOW TO CODE, UNDERLING !

yeah. IT support most stressful job ? no wonder... would *so much easier* if RH started by filtering the bozo's at all level. we have one in our team too of course. perfect for logging support call, an general monkey work. he will never have any root password. neither should the code monkeys have commit access. hey they can still do the documentation.

well enough renting for today, i have still to hack *his* software to make it looks like its working. or not.

PH, because she is pure emptyness