On Sep 16, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <ea1e439b-1f07-415c-928f-367daa81e...@comcast.net>, on 09/16/2014
at 05:17 AM, Ed Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> said:
I had to get up and explain WTF had happened and how I fixed it.
Is that like explaining how to ride a bicycle. That is, did it take 20
times longer to explain than to do?
I did not go into detail about how I came to figure out what the
solution was. I shortened a 30 minute learning session (to me) into a
2 minute explanation as none of the audience (I know for a fact) had
the slightest idea what a PLM was let alone what a CVOL was. When I
was up explaining the issue the the commanding officer I dumbed it
down even more (not that the CO was dumb) but he had no clue what JCL
was let alone what a GDG was (you have to know the audience).
BTW the JOB(s) updated a data base ( home grown) which had nothing to
do with a GDG but it updated the DB that contained all the (sorry I
am forgetting terms here) part numbers that the ARMY had in Europe (I
know thats right but the nomenclature is just not there anymore after
30 years).
There was a grizzled old female first sergeant that didn't like my
explanation as she knew everything.
Is that anything like the trainee that shoots himself with a rifle
that he knows is unloaded? The first step to wisdom is to know what
you don't know.
I guess you have to know an army type thats been in the service for
over 10 years to understand the "type". For example its better than
a civil servant, but not by much.
--
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)
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