[Lug-nuts] Re: standford study says 9.5% of research engineers do virtually nothing.

The source for the post is an X post in which the poster cites himself for the statistic and hasn't actually published the study. Worth seeing the methodology before drawing too many conclusions. I smell someone with an ideological axe to grind. Watched this YouTuber's thoughts on it yesterday: https://youtu.be/_a_Vz2ytVCQ?si=IovzQD1ezsgeJ2g_. Just a person with a camera, but she hits a lot of the good reasons to be skeptical. On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:05 AM Linus Sphinx <sphinxtar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually, they have it upside down, I only appeared to be doing > nothing, analysis is 90% of the job. Even a script of only two lines > must be maintained. In any disaster the IQ hierarchy takes over and > you find a half dozen guys looking over one guy's cube with two more > researching and calling out answers to the questions. Sure they could > probably cut that down to two guys but in IT the only way to move up > is moving to another corp. or embed yourself so far into the machine > it's blackmail by fear. Most corp. keep a bench at least two or even > three deep just to cover their ass so they always have somebody to > train the replacements for the piss poorly documented mess created by > so much turnover. They'd rather pay some consultant's ludicrous rate > than give their home grown people the six figure 100% paid wildcard > health benefits and a 401k with matching contributions to keep them. > _______________________________________________ > Lug-nuts mailing list -- lug-nuts(a)bigbrie.com > To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave(a)bigbrie.com