Re: plus human connection?
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>I would suggest that most personnell problems are directly due to attitudes about employees expressed by management. Or, you get what you pay for, pay including general respect. In fact, the top management is bleeding the companies dry, and it's only going to get worse. Money is tending to aggregate up the management chain. Of course, there are the occasional miscreants who wouldn't be happy working for anyone, even the most generous employer; but they are few.
As to software, sure, train young people for writing software, all those who will be willing to relocate to India, China, etc. There are a lot of very experienced developers who no longer have jobs in the business. Everyday I see twenty web pages that have such obviously bad design that it makes me sick; but it's also obvious, as in the treatment of employees, that employers are more than willing to settle for what they consider good enough. A common example: software developers warned everyone 35 years ago that 30 years weren't that long a time and that it would be advisable to use 4 digit years.
Pam