[LINK] Any crash courses for a Gen X?

[Rick Welykochy]

Hey Andrew,

Before we oldies on Link comment any further, can you fill us in
with a bit of info?

What is your job title?
What are the job specs / requirements?
And if I may be so bold, what is your approx salary?

Back in the days of the Profumo Affair it did indeed require
a network engineer to do a networking job. It sounds like you've
been spat out the end of the post-economic rationalisation
post-outsourced casual employment machine and are expected
to perform miracles without any training.

Bon chance.

cheers
rickw



Andrew Thornton wrote:
>
>                     Um. Ok. 2 days into my new ISP on a business plan.
> And I log into my account. Um.
>
>                    What???????????????????????? This is like looking at
> the deck of the USS Enterprise. For instance I have a table of the
> following:
>
>
>      Intra-Australian Network Performance : City-to-City hourly metrics
>
>
> The tables below show the network latency and packet delivery ratio
> metrics for the links between the eight metropolitan city POPs in the
> Telstra domestic backbone network.
>
> */
> /*
>
> The table below represents the network latency between each of the eight
> metropolitan city POPs in the Telstra domestic backbone network,
> averaged hourly.
>
> *****************
>
> Now as a Gen X person the only packet that I was brought up with was a
> chip packet. The one that went 'pop' when you opened it. I've no idea
> how I can understand anything that is going on here. But I am in charge.
> I am the "technical" person for this business. And if you conclude that
> Sgt Schultz should have also run Stalag 13 then you are correct. I am
> about as technical as I am a mountain climber.
>
> Ask someone down the hall? Um. No. He thinks that the Profumo affair is
> still going. He also thinks that if you minimise the document on his PC
> that it's vanished. So I have to "bring it back" each time as he panics.
>
> So I am for some unknown reason that would generate a funny Mark Twain
> one liner the computer person..gulp...for this business.
>
> Welcome to the madness of baby boomer plus Gen X run a business. Stay
> tuned for the next episode of total incompetence.
>
> Um. Am I honestly expected to understand any of this?
>
> I so how? A bit late to do some networking degree. Again, in my opinion
> this is where the IT world falls down. There seems to be expert world -
> Mark newton etc - and the computer illiterate like me is just somehow
> expected to know stuff that you would learn in a network engineering
> qualification.


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