The Real Story of the MacJihad
iCable
Nov 16 1998 12:01AM EST

     Ok, I figured it out while talking to a few of them that tried to get me to go back to the Mac and buy a new Macintosh to replace my Mac Clone.

Basically I have a 4 year degree and earn 65K a year, they earn less than 20K a year at unskilled jobs with no degree. How they can afford a Macintosh is a mystery to me unless it is a used one or they got one of those $23 a month leases.

Ok, there are two types of people in this world, I have found in my observations:

#1 Those that are willing to learn new things and improve on themselves. The ones that follow the rules and keep their employers happy, but can suggest changes to save money, time, or extra work without breaking too many rules.

#2 Those that refuse to learn anything new, and want to do things differently that the employers want them to do. They are chronically unemployed because they get termined every 3 to 6 months for horseplay, sexual harassment, refusing to follow rules or standards, and making a mess of the job they where supposed to do.

Well at least two I found, there could be others.

But anyway group #2 are the MacJihad, who think that doing things differently is better because they couldn't do things right anyway. Group #1 is the group that either always does things right, or finds a better way to do them if they are wrong. Group #1 always gets payraises or new jobs with higher saleries. Group #2 always complains that the companies are screwing them over, but in reality it is their own incompetance that is screwing them over.


     I'd actually come to this conclusion in a previous column (see backissues) but it's refreshing to see others discover these patterns of behavior and the occasional paradigm.
     -mgabrys



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