Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

[Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net>]

"Ian St. John" wrote:
> 
> Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net> wrote in message
> news:7on4i0$b47$0@216.39.144.179...
> > Howard S Shubs wrote:
> > [ ... ] 

> Example from Business 101: Choices such as patching up leaking pipes
>  explosion/employee hazard) instead of a new package size, or
> advertising theme. They said 'no right or wrong answer', but the
> correlation between the choices and resulting marks was an amazing
> coincidence, don't you think.
> [ ... ]

What scares me is that I think I can imagine what the correlation was.
 
Is this for real? 

I personally think the correct answer is more than obvious :-(!

Just the fact (? is this *really* true?) that the choices are what they
are with "no right or wrong answer" rather shocks me.  Contrary to what
management school teaches, it is the *employees* that produce the
saleable goods that actually bring in the money.  Perhaps the US
workforce has reached the level where killing them off doesn't affect
the bottom line significantly.

If this is really true and not a joke or put on, perhaps working
conditions in third world countrys wouldn't be that much worse.

Pardon me, but I am stunned.
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Victoria Welch, WV9K, DoD#-13, Net/Sys/WebAdmin SeaStar.org,
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