Are you trained by your company?

[255-255-255-0.livejournal.com]

Are you trained by your company?

I was just wondering because I called my local ISP last night due to a dropped connection.

I had a bit of a chat to the bloke who was answering their support calls.
He suggested, (among other things) I could have a damaged NIC.
I pinged the NIC and got a response, pinged my router and got a response.
I told him this.

Him : “So how do you ping your NIC?”
Me: Using the ping command (Duh) < I didn’t actually say Duh ;-)
Him : “What’s the address, do I just type in PING NIC ?

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[255-255-255-0.livejournal.com]

Well I'm not either, I just thought this sort of stuff would be taught if the tech person didn't know?
How naive am I :-)

[insomnius.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's not a hugely problematic problem that I don't get trained, because if I don't know I get embarrassed and go find out for myself.

This is not true of all our tech people :/

[insomnius.livejournal.com]

There may be jobs out there which require some form of knowledge and/or skills.

Maybe I should go out and find one before my brain explodes.