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Day by Day: A snip from a /.er
Thu, 01 Jun 2006

I sort of liked this little comment someone made; short and to the point:

We've become a management culture since the Cold War ended. The emphasis on science and technology has been replaced with an emphasis on managerial skills and the joys of outsourcing. And since the amount of money being spent on educating our young has diminished, and you often get the proverbial gym teacher teaching chem lab, is it any wonder why science scores are down?

Courtesy of 'monkaduck'

Every time I read a posting or news item about education in the US or Canada being down, about outsorcering, about a technical person having a hard time finding work or recently losing his job it makes me wonder; I suppose its the same old problem tech people have always faced inside the workforce -- that it is assumed that techies become managers once they've become good techies; Non-techs seem to think management is a step up, but we techs know the truth -- that most of us do it because we like to play with things, blow stuff up, and create. Maybe the Matrix brought in a few new recruits, but with enrolment in computer science down, and people entered trades in smaller numbers than ever before.. I think we're heading for a crisis. We're the society Douglas Adams was talking about, full of hair dressers and managers...

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