[95334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Thu Mar 15 00:31:07 2007
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:29:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <45F8C739.6020803@utc.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jeff Kell wrote:
>
> Jay Hennigan wrote:
> >
> > This is as best I recall a direct quote. "We don't care. You can
> > call yourself Supreme Imperial Grand Poo-Bah if you want as long as
> > our network stays up."
>
> Nah, the proper term is "Network Czar" until you get into network
> security, then you become the "Network Nazi" or the "Firewall Fascist".
>
> For techs, I've heard "cable stretcher", but you don't breathe a word of
> it until the fiber splice is verified...
Some of our NOC engineers in my previous position got pretty upset
at how funny I found the term "reboot monkey" when I first discovered it
(a friend visited from the states).
One of the girls knocked me out pretty good. :)
Gadi.
