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Journal Journal: Work internet

Journal by moodyblue on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @09:07AM

The big boss or "chief" has decreed that the internet, apart from it's most unsound, unstable, and unreliable parts are now open to all users. This has resulted in a 50% increase in traffic to the internet, I hope the poor little proxy sized on for a couple of hundred users will cope!

Journal Journal: Sweet zombie Jackson

Journal by moodyblue on Friday June 26, 2009 @03:40AM

Sweet zombie Jackson, he has finally kicked the bucket. This means there will several unbearable days in which people cry rivers of crocodile tears over someone everyone has written off years ago. I hope it doesn't turn into a Princess Di part 2.

Journal Journal: First Post 1

Journal by moodyblue on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @05:13AM

I am going to use this journal or "blog" in the new money to vent about the Kafkaesque bureaucracy that infests my current workplace. Anyone working in the private sector will find the rules and regs used by all UK public sector organizations utterly baffling.

IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth 619

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 10, 2008 @12:00PM from the also-roswell-and-jfk-and-high-fructose-corn-syrup dept.

buzzardsbay writes "For the past few years, we've heard a number of analysts and high-profile IT industry executives, Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand. But now there's growing evidence suggesting the "shortage" is simply a self-serving myth. "It seems like every three years you've got one group or another saying, the world is going to come to an end there is going to be a shortage and so on," says Vivek Wadhwa, a professor for Duke University's Master of Engineering Management Program and a former technology CEO himself. "This whole concept of shortages is bogus, it shows a lack of understanding of the labor pool in the USA.""

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