On 14/11/2011 10:50 AM, Invisible wrote:

> Interesting.

I also find it interesting how I had to get out a dictionary no less 
than *seven times* while reading this article. All those people who keep 
telling me I have a really wide vocabulary? They don't know jack.

Again, also interesting is the term "profit center". Obviously everyone 
has heard of a "cost center" (it's what you assign stuff to when you 
need to buy stuff), but I have never, ever heard anybody say the words 
"profit center". Perhaps it's just because people don't argue about it 
quite so much?

(I also had to go look up WTF an MBA actually is, since I've never heard 
of one...)

“Let’s replace really expensive Cost Centers who do some magic which we 
kinda need but don’t really care about with less expensive Cost Centers 
in a lower wage country.”

That sounds pretty much like *exactly* how almost every company views 
programmers. These are useless people that cost huge amounts of money 
but don't generate any value. Surely there is some way we can get rid of 
them? *sigh*

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