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Poor Reading Comprehension involved here
No where did I say you Knew it all or in any way Implied that you did I just said that this young fresh from Uni Girl thought she knew it all.
OH I fully agree that there was a flawed System in Place there they allowed HR to employ staff and of course HR went for those with Paper Qualifications as the base measurement. So the better the qualification the more that HR wanted that person.
As for me as I was serving a Punishment Detail for repairing Mainframe Circuit Boards instead of sending them back to the factory and getting a substandard repaired unit back and worse still saving lots of money by doing the repair locally with better components that kept working, there was very defiantly a problem with their system as well. Though to be fair to them that was why I was there to begin with.
What was even worse is that those in control of that where not Techs but from HR and they made the silly mistake of moving the State Service Manager of the Mainframe Service Division to a small subsidiary supporting Motor Racing. Apparently every Electronic Engineer would be begging for forgiveness and wanting to return after learning their lesson within a few months and unfortunately for them I was there for nearly 8 Months before my Immediate Boss twigged that I was quite happy and didn't want to go back to the High Pressure Job that I was serving the punishment for. Of course the fact that I was a Mechanical Engineer with a Electronic Degree and I had started my working life in Motor Racing Vehicle Design probably wasn't the best thing to happen, because I still like Motor Racing and this is now 40 + years after the event. I just mentioned to my Immediate Boss that maybe someone should have looked at what my actual qualifications actually where instead of thinking that they just employed Electrical Engineers to do the job that I had been doing.
Moving me from High End Business Systems to a place where I had direct contact with the various teams and had to attend every race meeting and had open access to every team was a real pleasure no work at all involved. Apparently other Electrical Engineers thought that needing to travel all of the time and being away from home on weekends was a bad thing. I was doing that at the Main Frame section anyway but instead of being tied up at race tracks I was stuck in the gloom of some subbasement fighting with a problem that no one else could fix and I was away more than just a few weekends a year. Most times when I went to work in the morning I didn't know where I would be sleeping that night and had several packed suitcases always in the office.
Oh and the fact that I didn't have to wear a Suit & Tie at that position in no way was any incentive to stay put.
That company was a perfect example of why HR should be completely removed from the Hire Process and idiot "Paper Qualified" people should be appointed to Management above those who actually did the work, but then again Big Blue in the 70's was nothing if not interesting. And exactly where are they today?
Col
OH I fully agree that there was a flawed System in Place there they allowed HR to employ staff and of course HR went for those with Paper Qualifications as the base measurement. So the better the qualification the more that HR wanted that person.
As for me as I was serving a Punishment Detail for repairing Mainframe Circuit Boards instead of sending them back to the factory and getting a substandard repaired unit back and worse still saving lots of money by doing the repair locally with better components that kept working, there was very defiantly a problem with their system as well. Though to be fair to them that was why I was there to begin with.
What was even worse is that those in control of that where not Techs but from HR and they made the silly mistake of moving the State Service Manager of the Mainframe Service Division to a small subsidiary supporting Motor Racing. Apparently every Electronic Engineer would be begging for forgiveness and wanting to return after learning their lesson within a few months and unfortunately for them I was there for nearly 8 Months before my Immediate Boss twigged that I was quite happy and didn't want to go back to the High Pressure Job that I was serving the punishment for. Of course the fact that I was a Mechanical Engineer with a Electronic Degree and I had started my working life in Motor Racing Vehicle Design probably wasn't the best thing to happen, because I still like Motor Racing and this is now 40 + years after the event. I just mentioned to my Immediate Boss that maybe someone should have looked at what my actual qualifications actually where instead of thinking that they just employed Electrical Engineers to do the job that I had been doing.
Moving me from High End Business Systems to a place where I had direct contact with the various teams and had to attend every race meeting and had open access to every team was a real pleasure no work at all involved. Apparently other Electrical Engineers thought that needing to travel all of the time and being away from home on weekends was a bad thing. I was doing that at the Main Frame section anyway but instead of being tied up at race tracks I was stuck in the gloom of some subbasement fighting with a problem that no one else could fix and I was away more than just a few weekends a year. Most times when I went to work in the morning I didn't know where I would be sleeping that night and had several packed suitcases always in the office.
Oh and the fact that I didn't have to wear a Suit & Tie at that position in no way was any incentive to stay put.
That company was a perfect example of why HR should be completely removed from the Hire Process and idiot "Paper Qualified" people should be appointed to Management above those who actually did the work, but then again Big Blue in the 70's was nothing if not interesting. And exactly where are they today?
Col
Moderator Posted by HAL 9000
Updated - 13th Sep
