Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

Mon Mar 15 13:29:21 UTC 2004

Robert E. Seastrom wrote:

> Seconded.  This is dirt simple to do.  If we believe in public
> humiliation, a list of infected machines and their owners (along with
> a suitably snarky "don't hire these top network engineers to maintain
> your fleet of windows boxes" message) could be displayed on the
> projection screens at the break.

Employee to PHB: "You hired me to provide core network engineering and 
lead the level 2 network ops staff.  Tell me again why you want me to 
provide any server engineering, if you knew my strengths when you hired me?"

There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do 
Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly.  I route, I 
switch, I help with securing networks.  And I do wear a lot of hats at 
my day job, but I remind them that they hired a specialist, and promised 
lots of server support all along the way.  Granted, the Windows guy is 
overloaded and the UNIX/Linux guy would snore in front of his PHB...

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