Wazza's comments

I had open heart surgery just over 4 years ago, from a bacteria infection that is typically caused 50% of the time by bad teeth. This bacteria, literally ate my hart valve (they have no blood so cannot defend themselves). As a consequence I now have a titanium prosthetic Aortic heart valve. In a very quiet room, if you stand beside me, you can hear it click every time my heart beats. I had a fever for 4 weeks lost 25 pounds of weight. Serious stuff. Teeth infections can cause Endocarditis (heat valve deterioration)or in some cases meningitis.

When you get told by the heart surgeon that there's a % chance you can die in surgery, you start to evaluate differently. Whether you believe vin things beyond death, or not, I believe we are here to learn, develop, experience and make a contribution to humanity. Ultimately the way we treat ourselves is tied with how we treat others. respect yourself, respect others...

Plus, be must be absolutely incapable of generating his/her own ideas.....

Phew, lot's of testosterone out there. There's some fundamental principles at play here. First in the economics of Supply and Demand, there's a shortage of good developers programmers, generally in the marketplace. The CIO doesn't sound like he's aware of this, obviously in such a climate, there's money to be had, if you're good? Second, Being "older" and "looking in" from the outside, there's an increasing "penchant" amongst the rising up generation, and I'm going mildly stereotypical here, "I want to create, design and make", which doesn't really gel with older traditional businesses that want to maintain codebases, that, that are key to their enterprise. Yes, they could shift with the times, and kill off decades of codebase and start again in Ruby on Rails, or similar, but at what cost? The whole iT industry goes through cycles like this every 10-20 years. Ironically, you either lose people to more innovative technology OR, later, you end paying more because it's gone to legacy and no-one around "does that anymore". Look at COBOL (before most of you were born). I love the IT industry, it's constantly changing which always creates opportunity, some struggle with this concept. Last, I think the CIO needs to recognize these and changes and adjust his approach, if you were him, with financial constraints, what would you suggest he do in recruiting?