From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Rod Gasson wrote:

>>  Now, I'm totally suprised about this, because this is the same guy who
>> on his first day in the server room, typed "DIR" at one
of the Novell Netware
>> consoles and was suprised that it didn't work.

> I'd forgive him for that 'cos dir is a valid command on both our windoze and
> linux boxen, so I'd be inclined to try it on a Novell Netware console too.

  At the time, I thought nothing of it.  After all, everyone has to start 
learning somewhere.  It was just after several months of stupid stuffups (zero 
hardware knowledge, and he didn't even know how to configure a network printer 
under Netware, that I found out that he was a "Certified Netware
Engineer". 
Piece of paper and all.

  A CNE who couldn't even perform a basic task that a CNA (netware 
administrator) can do?  Some of our country clients (accountants) were better 
equiped to do that than he was...

  Mind you, I'm no CNE, but I'd expect that someone who's more qualified and 
gets paid more than myself to actually _know_ more than me, not just _think_ 
they know more...  That's a difference that management hadn't worked out yet.

> One that really gets to me is a freind that works for a goverment dept often
> uses her account to sent out virus warnings (both real and fake) without
> checking the facts first. The mere fact that these 'warnings' originate from
> a .gov.au address means that many recipients will assume that since it comes
> from a government department it must be factual. It seems so hard to get her
> to understand that if she really MUST forward on these warnings without
> checking the facts first she should do it using her own private email
> account, rather than an official goc.au one.

  I ignore virus warnings. 99% of the time they come from idiots.  And the 1% 
of the times they are indeed valid, they're not applicable to me anyway  :-).

> LOL..  You probably did ruffle a few feathers, but the fact that everything
> you said was probably 100% on the mark meant that anyone that did give you a
> hard time about it would merely be further showing their own ignorance.

  I once had a sit-down with the boss where he told me not to badmouth the guy, 
or at least not in front of clients...  I said "That's fine, I wouldn't have to 
if you didn't keep sending me out to fix his stuffups..."

  Mind you, I was on my way out, I had my resignation signed but not dated, 
(ready to hand in at a moment's notice).  Turned out I was retrenched with a 
payout, along with three other guys (all of us had at least half a brain too, 
in contrast with some of the ones they kept).

  I normally use an itsy bit more tact if I actually want to KEEP a job. :-)

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