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

Pete Templin petelists at templin.org
Mon Mar 15 15:58:38 UTC 2004


Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:

> 
> Pete Templin wrote:

>> I didn't suggest saying "I'm not gonna do it".  I just suggested "You 
>> hired me to deploy dynamic routing on your statically-routed network. 
>> What prompted you to think that I could configure site-wide anti-virus 
>> services such that no one ever reports a virus leak from our 
>> enterprise, without training, time to test and develop such a critical 
>> solution, or both?"
> 
> It turns out that they can hire people with all kinds of certifications
> that say thye can do all of that for a lot less than what they are
> paying a "specialist".

You're right again.  But those generalists would earn a spot on the 
"don't hire these top network engineers to maintain your fleet of 
windows boxes" list projected on the screen, while the specialists 
either wouldn't be doing work outside their scope or the PHB would 
understand that it's not their specialty.

pt



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