RE: When one can call oneself expert
- From: "Ellis R. Miller" <sartre1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:54:25 -0600
Good point.
Personally, I wish those with some legitimate expertise would warm up to the
business side of IT, in particular the marketing. MANY on this list would
not offend me, whatsoever, if they called themselves experts so we could
abuse coffee together in the office. Unfortunately, I end up contracting
with retired vacuum cleaner salesman, former stand-up comedians who decided
there was more money in Oracle than juggling cats, and a host of veteran IT
old schoolers love to retell then, of course, retell, again, the legendary
feats of King Arthur and the Knights of the COBOL Roundtable as he espouses
the glory days of MVS JCL genius but can't type more than 10 words a minute
and shakes uncontrollably in trying to use a mouse.
God bless a guy like Cary who can actually speak publicly and doesn't view
it as "selling out" because he can tell a good anecdote because for every
one guy like him there is a multitude of mass marketing infomercial rejects
awaiting me and others on this list at that next 80-hour-a-week gig so I can
pay my mortgage. And once they are in the loop, gangsters, just try pointing
out their lack of expertise and watch the office politics grind you up and
spit you out...as soon as you are finished with their work, of course.
Call yourself the Christ child and if you are competent please, I am begging
you as a Christian and a follower of good hygiene do some self-promotion,
slam-dunk the phone screen, and for the love of baby Jesus meet me on my
next contract...I will forward the company name and address.
Because, personally, I am exhausted from working with the 30-year-old guy
with the Oracle polo shirt, pen, and coffee cup who used to sell me car wax
and some sort of butt firming machine at 4am on cable as well as his
grandfather who once slayed a dragon with just a box of punch cards and some
"pretty slick" COBOL but now mostly watches as my eyes bleed from another
90-work-week of "being nice" a.k.a. subsidizing his portion of the corporate
welfare fund.
It does no good for us to "talk amongst ourselves" or crack jokes about the
IT department from the land that time forgot where T-Rex just isn't the name
of the next IT project. And businesspeople, in particular, needs flashy
flash cards and cool logos as well as golf outings to then truly grasp the
meaning of the word "expert" themselves.
Business people are all about flash, public speaking, and understanding how
IT makes them money and how Father Time the dragon slayer and his grandson
Aussie Super Wax costs them millions in doughnuts and purchased yet still
shelved and shrink-wrapped software packages. We are the core business and
an IT Republic of benevolent, intelligent philosophers beats the guy that
used to be on "M.A.S.H." selling the next ERP solution via an in-depth
interview conducted by Dionne Warwick and the Psychic IT Friends Hotline.
Ellis
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The trick is to become an expert without being a guru!
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