[nylug-talk] Does this situation in any way mirror what is happening in the tech sector?

[mylar]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:21 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Friday 21 September 2007, Mark Halegua wrote:
> > On Friday 21 September 2007 12:49, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > > On Friday 21 September 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7004581.stm
> > >

>    An example of what I mean by "dangerous" expectations: during a recent 
> interview I went on to an IT job, I was told that the company has 14 
> locations and a datacenter with a SAN, with a mixture of various OSes 
> (several commercial Unices, several Linux distros, Windows, etc), a lot of 
> tunneling of various processes over ssh even by people on their desktops, and 
> that all of this was being administered by...  /one/ network administrator.  
> Naturally the network admin had trouble getting approval for taking any time 
> off from work, so it was very difficult to actually spend vacation time.  And 
> forget taking off more contiguous days than a Friday to a Monday.  There was 
> clearly no backup person for the network admin, whom oh-by-the-way already 
> gave two weeks notice.  I got the impression that documentation was light 
> (because everything is "simple", and no documentation had been written in 
> months) and that there wasn't much concern for making sure that someone 
> stepping into the job would be given much of a clue before already being in 
> the fire.
>    That much responsibility is *unsafe*, both for the employee as well as the 
> company itself.
> 
>    When I try to talk about this in person with experienced admins, they seem 
> to glaze over as if to silently explain that this is the norm of today.  I 
> hope that's not the case.
> 
>    -- Chris
> 

One of the reasons why I'm glad that I got out of IT. IT has become too
much of a circus in this regard.  Fortunately IT was not my primary area
of expertise to begin with but one I acquired later on in life. Thus I
had other skills to fall back upon.

mylar



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