filePro Programmer shortage

[Mike Schwartz (PC Support & Services, Appleton, WI)]

On Thu, February 24, 2005 12:36, Ernie Barnard said:
> And the good thing is that there are not many (or any) unemployed filePro
> programmers right now. Bad thing is that there may not be enough to go
> around.
>
> Ernie Barnard

     Yes.  I have three clients right now looking for filePro programmers;
one near Green Bay, Wisconsin and two near Chicago, and they haven't
been able to find any.

     In Green Bay, they decided to move a SCO Unix person who had "a
couple of data base classes in college" into the filePro department
starting Monday, so I will be teaching her filePro for a couple of
hours each evening, beginning tomorrow.

     It's a shame, because I am filling in right now for a couple of other
former full time filePro programmers.  One decided to persue a
Java/web development position at another company shortly after they
got him fully trained, and the other they had to let go because he
was calling in sick more days than he was actually showing up on the
job.

Mike