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[jarad.livejournal.com]

Them: Customer colocating a huge NAS box.
Me: In ur datacentre, beating ur servers.

They arrive and plonk their box on the industrial strength shelf I had the foremind to install in the rack.

Me: Here's the sheet with your IP addresses on it, and here's a screen and keyboard.
Them: Uh... won't it just get one automatically when we turn it on?
Me: No, we don't run DHCP for customers. These are public addresses... all you have to do is pick one, enter the settings, and voila.
Them: Well... we don't know how to do that. Can we come back tomorrow?
Me: o.O *one of these guys is their IT manager... and they don't know how to set an IP address on a Windows-driven NAS?* Okay!

Comments

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

And people wonder why techgeeks tend to be bitter and cross...

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

the FUN part is when you realize that the guys who can't do shit are the guys getting 3 or more times your salary...

[ismarc.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing. The worst part is when you realize that these idiots who are making three times your salary are also the ones responsible for hiring IT talent.

[eightofspades.livejournal.com]

I look out there at 'IT Manager' postings, and I don't see any that most IT managers could ever get a foot in the door on. How does it happen?

[ismarc.livejournal.com]

How does it happen? From what I've observed the only individuals who are screened for (often absurd) qualifications are the trench workers. Management and above only need some sort of document declaring their competence and be able to write their own names. Then these management boobs siphon off all the knowledge of the trench techs to justify that 300% salary and meaty benefits package.

Add to this the fact that stupid, moronic, brain-dead, idiotic, technophobic, vile, disgusting, morally bankrupt human resources bathtub-scum (who should be publicly beaten with giant marital aids until tender and juicy and then sodomized by enraged buzz-saws and other assorted power tools, then left to rot in a sewage drain) weed out technically capable candidates in favor of those with backgrounds in management (any management background will do) and personalities "more in line" with the corporate culture. So the real techs never see an opportunity to interview for the position.

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

It's all who you blow know.

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

Yep, proof that the more you get paid, the dumber you become.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I could handle being Really, Really Dumb some days... ;-)

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

They say ignorance is bliss...I guess it helps to be rich ;)

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

Hey, if ignorance is bliss, that man is orgasmic.

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Visual I needed not ;)

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

i really really really want to be an idiot...

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

I could handle mildly dumb...I rather not be a complete idiot, no matter the cash.

Darn that pride

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

I don't wonder, I *am* bitter and cross.

Now I just need to get the Elder Sign set into the ground before my cube so I can give some of the fools an appropriate "send off"

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

Elder Sign + ejection system = amusement factor :)

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

And all I need is a working intradimensional gate to a certain point in R'lyeh.....

And presto! Instant squid food!

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

yeah, but we might have a cheezed off squid god from too much junk food ;)

[network-nerd.livejournal.com]

A couple of years back, we had an MCSE request help from our Systems groups because he had never actually set up DNS on a Windows server before.....

[jecook]

Must have been a paper MCSE. ::shakes head sadly::

I am sort of glad to see that MS is starting to go the Cisco route and put a "use by" date on their certs, although as someone who actually learned the shit required to pass the certification test instead of mesmerizing the damn test and all it's variations.

[kayfox.livejournal.com]

That must be new, what the always have done is specify specific roducts that the certification if for (IE: Windows Server 2003, etc).

Yes, Im an MCSA, no, I dont know jack shit about W2K3, even though it says I do, yes, it was an experiment on how little I could learn about W2K3 and still pass.

The should go the route of the FCC with the Amateur exams: you either memorize the questions or you learn the material, no cheating.

Or in the case of the morse test, you learn it or be screwed.