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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2421)1/8/2004 7:55:11 PM
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How India & China Could "Free" US Knowledge Workers From Excel/Access Enslavement
"Apps like Excel and Access breed stupidity," claims a passionate US developer
January 8, 2004
The following impassioned post appeared on Slashdot this week:


"I quietly wait for the day when stupid managers are replaced by smarter managers who realize that Excel, Access, and its ilk only create drones that copy and paste all day, tend to their macros that greatly complicate "simple" programming problems(therefore, must be tended to), and create "irreplaceable employees" that you can't fire because what they do is so poorly documented the business would stop running for an unexceptable time if you did (hmm, what does this cell do . . .).

I can't wait . . .until outsourcing to India and China makes programming so cheap that all those drones who think they are "knowledge workers" can finally be set free to get real careers because companies can now afford masters of Perl and the DBI module to actually bring back efficiency and dignity to the human race by expressing human thought in a burst of insightful code ONCE, instead of mindless clicks and grunts every month, an endless cycle of futility.


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