Re: Self testing - yeah right !

I know its an uphill battle, but once in a while, I still feel compelled to take up the charge. While I know many, many people that you describe, I also know those who look for answers themselves and test things out. Guess which class of people are making the most money and have advanced farther in their careers? I'm just trying to tell people who have at least RTFM the next step they need to take.

Cheers,
Brian

Norman Dunbar wrote:
>
> Morning Brian,
>
> You wrote :
>
> >> [soapbox]
> >> I see questions like this a lot where it is quite easy for a person
> to
> >> test themselves and figure out the answers. It's very easy for you to
> >> do. So please do it!
> <SNIP>
>
> No disrespect to Peter who is trying to learn - I hope - but, having
> been a Developer and a Techie for the last 18 odd years and having
> worked in Local Government and commercial 'institutions', I have to say
> you are on a losing wicket there !
>
> I have *never* met as many people who don't want to try anything out for
> themselves. If I had a £1.00 for every telephone call or email which
> started of 'do you know if I can do ......' then I'd be very very very
> rich inded.
>
> I gave up answering 'have you tried to do ..... ?' as the answer was
> always 'No, I though you would know.'.
>
> Example for Senior Analyst trying to edit a file on an ICL VME mainframe
> :
>
> Her: "What does Error 50144 Required object does not exist mean" ?
> Me: "What were you trying to do ?"
> Her: "Edit a file"
> Me: "Did it work ?"
> Her: "No I got that error message"
> Me: "What do you think it means ?"
> Her: "I thought you would know"
>
> And so on. Still the same today - get some other poor mug to do your
> thinking for you.
>
> I eventually started asnwering all questions with 'Yes, you can do
> that'. Seems to have worked fine !
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Norman Dunbar
> Database/Unix administrator
> Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
> mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk
> Tel: 0113 289 6265
> Fax: 0113 289 3146
> URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
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