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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 689042" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>My team was MY team. I had hired on a motley crew of older IT workers with scads of experience. Over 50s who have a horrible job finding work in that field, and fresh out of school trainees. </p><p></p><p>With the help of my oldsters, I built that team from the ground up and within budget, and if I do say so, after a couple of years, my newbies were no longer newbies, but skilled tier 2 LAN/WAN support people whom I am confident were able to go onto bigger and better things.</p><p></p><p>The oldsters? A couple just gave in and took early retirement. One started his own business setting up LANs in small businesses.</p><p></p><p>What saddened me is that while my assistant mgr was black (and did I get a lot of blowback about hiring him), I was not able to find a qualified female to add to my team. Team was really lily white, except for Charles, who used to refer to himself as "Token" when he wanted to piss me off. I didn't hire him because he was black. He happened to be formally trained on Microsoft and Novell networking, was certified on cisco, SUN, and 3Com, and had been working piddly ass ISP support.</p><p></p><p>It's not so much loyalty as it is taking care of people you promised to take care of, and just plain doing the right thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 689042, member: 1963"] My team was MY team. I had hired on a motley crew of older IT workers with scads of experience. Over 50s who have a horrible job finding work in that field, and fresh out of school trainees. With the help of my oldsters, I built that team from the ground up and within budget, and if I do say so, after a couple of years, my newbies were no longer newbies, but skilled tier 2 LAN/WAN support people whom I am confident were able to go onto bigger and better things. The oldsters? A couple just gave in and took early retirement. One started his own business setting up LANs in small businesses. What saddened me is that while my assistant mgr was black (and did I get a lot of blowback about hiring him), I was not able to find a qualified female to add to my team. Team was really lily white, except for Charles, who used to refer to himself as "Token" when he wanted to piss me off. I didn't hire him because he was black. He happened to be formally trained on Microsoft and Novell networking, was certified on cisco, SUN, and 3Com, and had been working piddly ass ISP support. It's not so much loyalty as it is taking care of people you promised to take care of, and just plain doing the right thing. [/QUOTE]
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