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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Career Advise: Part 2 Post 302110984 by philwithbeard on Saturday 17th of March 2007 01:10:57 PM

03-17-2007

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Ahm-m-m A-a-a, Never mind! I misunderstood the comment.

I started the job, and I discovered the real background to the comment made by my job interviewer about the person I was replacing and the "loud disagreement."

Company has problem with massive amounts of data entry. Everyone in office(s), except the owners, are required perform some of the data entry everyday.

Not a big deal from my point of view. As a new person I spent more hours in the 1st week learning database data entry stuff on the business application than learning the overview of computer network and servers. But, this is also a quick way to learn about the databases and what they do. Knowledge of which appears also drives many of the end users complaints to IT dept for desktop support.

The previous person (with less than 6 weeks on the job) was more of the personality of "I am a Windows Guru, not a lowly data entry peon" snob. Anyway, the discussion in question was about the data entry screens being mono-chrome mainframe terminal style interface screens instead of a newer windows GUI or Browser styled interface for the end users.

So, it wasn't a Windows chauvinist against a Unix chauvinist argument. As I now understand, it was really about snobbery, pretentiousness, and conceit over job assignments and lack of a current "high tech" work place. IMHO, a personality trait in the IT world that neither OS devotee's can claim their ranks to be without.

So thanks to thoes who replyed, but my original post was a mis-understanding of the comments from my job interviewer. Sorry.

Phil

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