RE: Oracle DBA future
From: Sweetser, Joe <JSweetser_at_icat.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:31:48 -0600
Message-ID: <E323160E08E560459CD05A883546C3CE0BC83C25@earthquake.ICAT.COM>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:31:48 -0600
Message-ID: <E323160E08E560459CD05A883546C3CE0BC83C25@earthquake.ICAT.COM>
> You need to ask people like System Administrators for things.
> You will need to interact with HR for benefits
> Your boss - you need to have good skills there or your review, etc
will suffer.
> You might technicall be able to do all the right stuff but one slip
of the tougue could kill you!
Case in point - we were hiring a new DBA and HR called a meeting of the team and asked what was ideal in a candidate. I said a Jewish woman of color, under 40, who was blind.
HR didn't like the joke and I got a minor reprimand.
sigh,
-joe
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