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Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)


From: Pete Templin <petelists () templin org>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:29:21 -0600



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


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