Author: Willie Viljoen Date: To: Walt Reed, Dennis Davis CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim and RFC 2821 compliance token:201ce6be1e4ee8b816008ad52cb06cde:JXr(JcSd
> > No, not "shame", it's a catastrophe :-) > >
> > Makes me wonder what the qualifications:
> >
> > - Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP),
> > Certified Novell Instructor (CNI), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT),
> > Netscape/Iplanet Solution Expert, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), > > Check Point Certified Security Engineer (CCSE Firewall-1) -
> >
> > are worth.
>
> Not much IMHO. Personally, I have found that people touting their
> certificates (especially in a sig) do so because they don't have much
> (or any) real-world experience. Maybe it makes them feel more secure,
> or more important. I certianly wound't hire such a person.
>
If you ask me, they are worth absolutely nothing, especially if we take this
guy as an example. They still continue to do this though, the problem is not
with the cave dwellers who do this, but the people who encourage this, they
are called Human Resources departments.
These departments are usually staffed by people who make little more than
janitors or secretaries do, and themselves tout a string of totally
irrelevent qualifications. These people weild the power over new
appointments in larger organizations, and the sad thing is, as I found out
myself earlier this week, they will always hire the git with a 250 page CV,
all qualifications, no experience. Experience means nothing to HR
departments, probably because they have never tried it and don't understand
its value.
No offence meant to anyone working in an HR department, really, I just have
something against your profession, not you. Earlier this week I received a
snail mail letter informing me an application for a programming job with a
local company failed. The HR monkey didn't even feel it was necesarry to
provide me with a reason *why* it failed, but just to tell me that it
failed. I heard from an inside contact they hired some soon-to-be graduate
in "Communications - IT", who the company now has to send for an 8 week
basic programming course, at their cost, and who will then have to be
trained on the job, wasting about a year of their time before he can really
begin to be productive. This idiot got the job, but knows absolutely nothing
about computers, he just "knows how to communicate with other professionals
in the IT industry."
This course of action might make the author of the letter a good HR person,
but I'd say it also makes him completely ignorant, and in general, a lousy
human being. To complete my depressing rant, I should say that what bugs me
most is that these people are everywhere.
