Re: OSS and getting money for it (was: [tlug] Re: Why Vista Sucks)

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

Moin,

Sorry for the late response, i am... whell.. a bit covered in work.

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:53:10 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Attila Kinali writes:
> 
>  > I don't know how much irony is in that mail, but from my
>  > experience in SMB but also to some extend in larger companies,
>  > people have certain knowledge or skills that noone else in
>  > the company/team has which is hard to find because either
>  > people don't usualy have it or it isn't something you normaly
>  > put onto a CV.
> 
> Sure, there are exceptions to every rule.  My point is that you'll do
> much better on average if you assume that people can cover for each
> other, and worry more about ensuring sufficient amounts of resources
> that are not so flexible.  

Sure it is. But if you disregard that work is done by people
and you have to keep them motivated (ie don't tell them that
they are replacable).

> It's also often the case that having a
> particular person be crucial to the organization constitutes bad
> planning on management's part.  How often do we hear stories of
> somebody with a crucial skill who leverages that into a much higher
> salary or into getting away with shirking most work because management
> believes that person is irreplacable, and they won't train anybody in
> their skills?

If someone does what we call here "job protection" then he
should be fired as soon as possible. But i'm not talking about
those. What i mean is that in every SMB and even in the working
groups of big companies you have certain key people who hold
everything together, or have special knowledge. Although they
don't refuse to teach others in their skill, usualy noone has
the time to learn it to the extend to be able to replace them.
Hence, if one of these key people leave there is a large drop
of overall knowledge/experiance in the company/group.
The world is just not perfect....

				Attila Kinali

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