[windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics
- From: Bill Beckett <Bill.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:52:15 -0400
Gawd, I feel real old
-----Original Message-----
From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:54 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:42:02 -0400, Jeff Malczewski wrote:
>Old?!? I'll be 28 tomorrow!!
In IT you're stone-age. ;-)
I'm 32 this year, and some of the more computer-litterate phd-students here
at the dept gaze at me in awe when telling them I've used 2k4-modems for
quite a few years doing FidoNET and BBSing "back in the days". Then took the
step to the twice-as-fast 4k8 modems and so on. 8-) Broadband is as common
as air to them. It's not more than about ten years ago, maybe less. 8-)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:49 AM
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics
>
>
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:29:09 -0400, Jeff Malczewski wrote:
>
>>Indeed... I have one "muppet" that I'm supposed to be able to
>>delegate stuff to, but if someone comes and asks me, I usually just do
>>it myself,
>for
>>the same reasons that Glenn lists.. It just takes FAR too long to
>>explain to people how to do the job that they were hired to do.
>
>I second that!
>
>The Assnt Sysadmin I have now though is pretty good, in the meaning
>that he doesn't try to do things he doesn't know about, ie he knows
>when to stay clear and ask for help and/or support. To bad his
>admin-tasks are 2ry to his real job as a PhD-student...
>
>>What happened to all the self-started and self-motivated learners?? I
>guess
>>they all get promoted to positions like mine and don't remain
>>"muppets"... Hence, the "muppets" that are left aren't very useful...
>
>It's a generational thing. Do you ever see middle-aged sysadmins
>sniffing your firewalls or trying ceaselessly to connect to your
>servers, except when trying out the security? Script-kiddies and their
>teen-friends however are a different matter...
>
>Anyway, you're getting old. ;-)
BW,
Sorin
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