Good inverted morning, folks! It's 92F/50% out on the patio today.
Kinda feeling directionless. Not sure what I'll to today. Maybe sink into fiction, maybe turn toward the train planning. We'll see.
I don’t know if anybody else read what current AT&T CEO said about the company’s employees. It was extremely direct, and he told them their benefits include a job, period, and not to expect the company to do anything special for them. There are no more careers at his company. And if they didn’t like it, they could find a job elsewhere.
More and more CEO's are acting like that, and the only change I can actually detect is that they're getting more honest because it's become more socially acceptable to say such things.
Sounds like the current job climate.
The climate doesn't seem to me to have changed all that much from an outside perspective (yay retirement!); only the popular buzzwords have shifted. I can only speak for the computer biz, but there are still plenty of jobs out there. The only ones who truly make the big bucks, though, are the ones that have the current buzzwords all over their resume (last round was "blockchain", this round is "AI!").
Much generalization involved here, of course, and my perspective is definitely outsider; I've not looked for a job in a long time.
Wired network(s) are going to be the fastest with less latency; so far. Time will tell on that one.
Meh, there are limits to RF wireless that don't exist for wired. Most notably, the shared nature of the medium. In that sense, wired is likely always going to win so long as the development keeps pace, which I expect it will.
Whether high-speed wired is cheap enough to deploy widely is another question entirely, though. 10G ethernet over copper is still surprisingly expensive, for example. Long range also adds other factors; digging ditches is expensive!
I'll completely ignore various security implications... That's a whole other debate.
He said that he just accepted the fact that engineers were mercenaries.
I've long felt that way, but never thought to associate that particular word. How appropriate!
At least no longer any BS about being valuable assets.
I can only speak for the computer biz, but the sad part in our neck of the woods is only that it actually
was BS from their perspective.
Management likes to treat tech workers as disposable widgets. They don't factor in the institutional knowledge we carry -- or the complexity of the things we build, which makes that knowledge extremely valuable. And often, they dismiss what we tell them out of hand. It's very disconcerting to me.
We're generic wizards as far as management is concerned, and as long as they have the necessary number of wizards, they don't care. Magic is magic, right? It can do anything, and if you tell them otherwise, you're lying!
Tech mangers should have actual tech experience if you want good work out of them. Sadly, most don't, and thus they don't understand, and we're back to magic.
I suspect that if consumers actually demanded quality -- and knew what it looked like -- their tunes would change very quickly. Right now they can get away with it, because the consumers either don't care, or don't know any better.
@Kusojiji : Is that better in Japan these days? I've historically had the impression that the Japanese were all about quality, almost as a matter of honor. Curious how much of that is media portrayal, and how much is real...
