Defending The IT Manager
I'm not without sympathy for the plight of the expat who was fired from his position as a consultant with Applied Computer Technologies (ACT) on Friday, after being on the Island only three weeks. I know how stressful uprooting your life to move to another country can be, and it must be awful to find yourself being sent back home less than a month later. On the other hand, for someone who was only on a three month work permit anyway, it was surely naive of him to think that his position here was secure, particularly as he has worked in Bermuda before.
Nonetheless, I had to laugh when I read about the alternative career path that ACT had allegedly suggested for him.
"They told me I wasn't sharp enough, quick enough or proactive enough and that I should rather consider a future as an IT manager," he said.
I know several IT managers who are neither dull, slow nor reactive. But apparently that's not true of the IT managers over at ACT.
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Better leave now rather than later...
He'll be more successful off island anyway.
I would not invest in Bermuda's future. Other than getting a nice tan.
Posted by BC on 20.06.05 at 18:43
I suggest you follow him...after you get your tan, of course.
Posted by jake on 21.06.05 at 00:52
I think we should see what the other side of the story is before we comment about it...
it doesn't make much sense jumping to conclusions.
Posted by S.L. on 21.06.05 at 02:21
S.L is right. Given the RG's lack of professionalism in reporting who knows what the real truth is.
Posted by JJ on 21.06.05 at 07:30
It is a little hard to believe this person didn't understand the concept of probabtion.
Still laughing about the IT Manager comment tho. In fact I've sent the link to every IT Manager I know.
Then again, how accurate was the RG story really?
We may never know since ACT, quite rightly, won't comment.
Posted by CB on 21.06.05 at 11:05
I know there are alot of slow news days in Bermuda, but there is no way this story deserved the top half of the front page. It only panders to ex-pat prejudices (yes, we have plenty of them).
OTOH, it is a good illustration of how "news" is created.
Posted by njegos on 21.06.05 at 14:44