RE: Examination results before...

[DL Hilton <hilton@entelos.com>]

Yup - a whole bunch of us are going to be "un-certified" into extinction.
Red Hat just sent me a brochure to get my "RHCE" - yes folks - there is now
a Red Hat Certified Engineer certificate, complete with courses and "Exam
Cram" material.

I have just made a promise to myself, to wit:

>From now on, when someone asks me to give them advice or help solve a
technical problem, I'm going to ask what Certificates they possess.  If they
have one related to whatever it is they are asking me about - F*** 'em -
they probably get paid more than this 25 year industry veteran anyway.

DL Hilton


-----Original Message-----
From: Wim Peeters [mailto:wim@sonycom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 9:17 AM
To: sage-members@usenix.org
Subject: Examination results before...


Hello everybody,

A member of my team wanted to go to a Citrix
course about their 'Metaframe' product.

So far so good.

However they ask for, and I quote:
'The above courses require WindowsNT 3.51 or 4.0 certification.
 Please attach Windows NT Server Exam Results'

I seems funny, a course price 1500$, and they ask you previous
certification results. Let the money roll...

So this is what some of us feared, experience doesn't count anymore,
You only need to have the certificates.

(I even don't wanna talk about my past experiences with NT
 certified engineers...though the result was a salary raise for us >-))
 main problem is that these certificates seem to easy to get)

'groumpf' regards

Wim

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