[150102] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Fri Feb 17 14:43:39 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:42:42 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com wrote:
There is a theory of management that says a good manager
needs to know nothing about the staff or the jobs he is managing,
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<neck hair == raised> :-)
From empirical data, this is not a good thing for companies. They
constantly make bad choices because they not only don't understand the
concepts, but can't even grasp the consequences of their decision.
For example, I had four GigEs each to several upstreams. I pointed the BGP
session to the loopback at the provider's router, so the traffic would load
share across the four GigEs. I was told my one of those managers who "needs
to know nothing about the staff or the jobs he is managing" that was not
redundant and that I had to do one BGP session per GigE, so four BGP sessions
to each upstream. After some heated discussions with the manager about why
that was not a good design decision, I warmed up my resume and started looking
for a new job.
scott
