Re: Quick Tale: Lost production database because of keyboard and Veritas Cluster Server

As an unemployed / displaced type, I can identify with this sentiment 1000%.

But it is generally management's fault for providing inadequate support agreements with Oracle and/or whoever ("Oh, we couldn't afford Bronze, so we have Obsidian, you know, the stuff they chipped sharp knives out of in the Stone Age?") and no documentation, etc etc. No peers to talk to, "What's a CSI Number?", all fun things that I wouldn't wish on anyone including someone who might be taking a slot that might have been my job. And after this many years in IT, there aren't many that could; problem is, nobody cares. Oh well.

As being prepared for being prepared for unemployment in perpetuity, unless I get a REALLY good job at Burger King, I can identify with all of this. But I didn't like seeing all the people biting this poor guy's head off.

RSH. "Rich Teer" <rich_at_rite-group.com> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0202280942280.16793-100000_at_grover.rite-group.com...
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, RSH wrote:
>
> > Touching anything on a live production system is something I would never
do;
> > but it has happened and a person has a problem. All I have mostly seen
are
> > variations of "How could you be so STUPID?" or lists of things that if
done
> > before the fact could have prevented the current situation. And now,
jumping
> > down my throat because I objected to treating someone with a genuine
mess on
> > their hands as an object of ridicule instead of offering useful
assistance,
> > and then treating me with a similar level of contempt.
>
> It's no excuse for such behaviour, but look at it this way: there are
> many very talented people who frequent these newsgroups, many of whom
> are out of work - possibly because someone with less (or no) experience
> is "doing" their job, cheaper. These cheap newbies blow things up,
> and then ask here for free help - from the very people that they're
> helping to keep out of work (indirectly, perhaps).
>
> I guess it is a little unfair to blame the newbies (we were all newbies
> once), but us unemoloyed people have got to vent our frustration somehow!
>
> Of course, the real people to blame are the clueless, cheapskate
> management types who hire newbies - with no experience, and noone
> else on site to back them up (mentor them, if you will). But the
> PHB's don't come here asking for help, so I'm afraid the messanger
> gets shot instead.
>
> --
> Rich Teer
>
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> Rite Online Inc.
>
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Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 00:20:11 CST