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"employee skillsets"
Apr. 20th, 2005 06:23 pmSo today we were given some kind of rush, do it before COB friday task to punch in our personal skillsets into some dippy product that upper management'd bought into. General speculation is that it's to inventory skills companywide so they can claim to have people with the skills for contract purposes.
This product, however, made me laugh. It had a lot of strange elements to it that indicated to me that whoever agglomerated the mess wasn't so much paying attention to the kind of 'skills' they were incorporating.
There were the inane ones, like 'Use Firefox' under web design. One of my coworkers found "Operate Laser Printer".
There were the technically silly entries - Python (a programming language) under Network Operations, for instance, and IRC (internet relay chat, the home of all the ne'erdowells on the net) under network protocols. Sed as a programming language. PL/1 and APL as programming languages anyone would want to use... or for that matter, that any employee would admit to knowing somewhere it might be used to incriminate him/her.
The department of redundancy department was redundant redundantly - For Operating Systems, I hadda put down Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris, and Unix. I mean, hell. Then I put down Linux, Red Hat Linux, and about half a dozen entries for versions.
I've probably lost track of a few of the better absurdities. My favorite was actually part of the instructions - in the tools, method and technologies section, we were supposed to put down 'at least 3'. This is where every program, language, operating system, protocol, fish, banana, and weasel we know how to use was. If someone put down only three entries, it'd damn well better have been 'mop, bucket, and broom', and even then they probably missed Soap and Water somewhere in another section...
In short, that's an hour of my life I would have really wanted back if I hadn't been able to laugh my ass off at the monkeys involved.
This product, however, made me laugh. It had a lot of strange elements to it that indicated to me that whoever agglomerated the mess wasn't so much paying attention to the kind of 'skills' they were incorporating.
There were the inane ones, like 'Use Firefox' under web design. One of my coworkers found "Operate Laser Printer".
There were the technically silly entries - Python (a programming language) under Network Operations, for instance, and IRC (internet relay chat, the home of all the ne'erdowells on the net) under network protocols. Sed as a programming language. PL/1 and APL as programming languages anyone would want to use... or for that matter, that any employee would admit to knowing somewhere it might be used to incriminate him/her.
The department of redundancy department was redundant redundantly - For Operating Systems, I hadda put down Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris, and Unix. I mean, hell. Then I put down Linux, Red Hat Linux, and about half a dozen entries for versions.
I've probably lost track of a few of the better absurdities. My favorite was actually part of the instructions - in the tools, method and technologies section, we were supposed to put down 'at least 3'. This is where every program, language, operating system, protocol, fish, banana, and weasel we know how to use was. If someone put down only three entries, it'd damn well better have been 'mop, bucket, and broom', and even then they probably missed Soap and Water somewhere in another section...
In short, that's an hour of my life I would have really wanted back if I hadn't been able to laugh my ass off at the monkeys involved.
