I suppose it might have been, if it wasn't that shortly after we hired him...he told us his career goals had nothing to do with system administration (well his background was testing computer games...which had been paying him quite well before the bubble burst, and his goal was to write computer games)....and, they will waive tuition for one class (up to 3 credit hours) per semester for employees... and now that we had hired him, he had no interest in actually doing (or learning) any system administration. We were stuck with him until he found his dream job and left us.
We're supposed to be able to terminate somebody if they don't work out by the 6 month mark....but it required that he have been given measurable goals, and they've never done anything like that before. But, they made sure to do it when we hired his replacement....one of his roommates. (we also briefly employed one of his other roommates as a student admin. We found out that he had quit, when we came in one morning to see d-ban running on all the student computers.) Some day soon, we'll be switching to servicenow for request tracking....because we're not sure how he got our current ticketing system is working the way that it is.....(or at the moment...the way that it isn't...) Manager commented the other day, that its interesting that most of root password prefixes are about people leaving us. Found a server that wasn't in cfengine, so he was trying to log into it... Well, there's only the two themes for root passwords. Somebody left, so we had to change it everywhere...or somebody did something that potentially exposed it, so we had to change it everywhere. (such as a time when an admin typed it into the wrong window...and it went out over IRC, another time an SA's PC got botted....those admins are still around, and they hate those passwords.....) On 5/14/2011 5:48 PM, Simon Lyall wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: >> We once interviewed a candidate...and he said for special skills that he was >> very good at using the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google to find the >> answers, so any SA task he didn't know how to perform he could find it.... > Sounds like a very valid skill to me. I'm doing a bit of Windows desktop > support at work and I find that 95% of the time I can get the solution to > any problem with google. The thing is the people I'm supporting also have > access to google so why can't they find the same answers I do? > > Instead they do things like when I ask them to download iTunes, flash, > or IE8 manage to google and go to spyware sites ( with flashing banner ads > ) rather than microsoft, adobe or apple.com . > > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
