[68627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Templin)
Mon Mar 15 08:30:13 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:29:21 -0600
From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87ad2i8dt0.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Seconded. This is dirt simple to do. If we believe in public
> humiliation, a list of infected machines and their owners (along with
> a suitably snarky "don't hire these top network engineers to maintain
> your fleet of windows boxes" message) could be displayed on the
> projection screens at the break.
Employee to PHB: "You hired me to provide core network engineering and
lead the level 2 network ops staff. Tell me again why you want me to
provide any server engineering, if you knew my strengths when you hired me?"
There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do
Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly. I route, I
switch, I help with securing networks. And I do wear a lot of hats at
my day job, but I remind them that they hired a specialist, and promised
lots of server support all along the way. Granted, the Windows guy is
overloaded and the UNIX/Linux guy would snore in front of his PHB...
pt
