Shmuel, I dont mind helping anyone, but there are two issues, one that person will never learn to be self-reliant for problems and secondly sometimes I just have the time to hand-hold, especially when IBM explained much better than I can because its their product.
Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com ________________________________ From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2011 8:32 PM Subject: Re: OT to my collegues In <of98ae8349.26cab4de-onc125791b.00186155-c125791b.001bf...@deutscherring.de>, on 09/30/2011 at 07:05 AM, Michael Klaeschen <michael.klaesc...@deutscherring.de> said: >One day I had a really big problem. Of course, it was my fault, I had > forget some details and been too stupid before, etc pp... . But dear >god likes me and therefore I got help. There's a difference between helping you and doing your job for you. Scott's complaint was about people who want a baby-sitter, not a mentor. >I will not underestimate that persons' effort for learning and >gratitude for getting help. Exactly; that person *wanted* to learn, unlike the people Scott complained about. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
