Why did you say that it costs $8,000 to be trained in... something? Haha, at my last job, when the company decided to switch to .NET and C#, they ordered this

Why did you say that it costs $8,000 to be trained in... something? Haha, at my last job, when the company decided to switch to .NET and C#, they ordered this hilarious three day training course that ended up costing about $30k (four people went). The guy doing the training knew his stuff, but I don't think I'm alone thinking this a bit ridiculous. Obviously this isn't .NET's fault, or C#'s, or even Microsoft's. It just comes to mind when I hear the term 'dot net' ... as it was a major sign that I should be leaving that job soon (which I did). A developer that needs an $8,000 training session may not be worth his $60k salary. 100% agree. Like I said in my OP, I think C# (and .NET) and Java (with it's libraries) can be used for wonderful things by wonderful people... the problem is, being the industry standard, there are a lot of very unwonderful people in the way.