[ale] bout me company

Joseph A Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 15 06:10:39 EST 2002


Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> The fact is, WinMan bought into a system not of his making but of MS
> and probably a lot of other entities looking to make a buck.  That's
> what was there for the accomplishing.  Perhaps he looked in Computer
> User and saw an ad like this one I'm looking at right in front of me
> here:  "Get Certified Today and Start Your IT Career Tomorrow...$5,995
> includes 100% instruction by...MCSE...instructor,...testing at large
> VUE testing center, breakfast and lunch each day,...training with your
> own...computer...", etc.  "Guaranteed Passing!", the ad says!
>  Guaranteed passing??  Damnation, sign me up!  I was a shift
> supervisor at Wal-Mart, now I'm going to be an MSCE!!  GUARANTEED!

So ley me get this straight... I give them several thousand
dollars, and as long as I *physically show up* for the class,
I get the certificate? How totally 1990's! We should just skip
the "me showing up for the class" part and they can mail
me the MCSE cert.

Cheers,

-- Joe
"I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
 which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
 problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
 --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"

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