[Louis Rossman]Rant on stupid technicians - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: blueskull
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 04, 2016, 06:06:17 am
content: Have fun.

author: timgiles
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2016, 07:11:41 am
content: The IT industry is filled with people who have little or no interest in the subject, just do their thing. At a company I used to work at, they were called BusinessAnalysts. The only thing they were, were anal. Oh they got to say they worked in IT, Im an IT specialist they would say. But, ask them about networking, even basic networking topology, nothing. OK, know what all the bits do on a motherboard, nah. Oh, ok, well maybe hardware isnt their thing. How about different OSs, understand what is different between Windows and Windows Server, Linux, 32/64bit? nope.I got so frustrated that I needed to leave. The only group that would have frustrated me more is if I had had to work with Marketing people.... (oo look, lets put on the box it works a a Gazillion Megabytes a second)Thank you for giving me a chance after 6 years to rant and relieve some steam!

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 04, 2016, 08:15:12 am
content: So many things this guy says rings true. When I was in my teens I worked for an IT consultancy company which catered for small to medium businesses, you know, a few servers, a router, a VPN tunnel and a good handful of clients. I have never got myself a Cisco, Aruba or Microsoft certification, hell, I didn't even finish high school, yet I shake my head at these so-called "IT professionals" who don't understand the most basic concepts who just manage to bugger things up. It got to the point where I just point blank refused to let anyone login with administrator rights without me being present. Thankfully the directors of the company who paid me to set these things up backed me up 100% as they didn't want to see their investment (and data) compromised.I later got a job in Government where I work for to this day. We have so many policies and standard operating procedures which cover almost everything. I have a simple philosophy when it comes to work and that is "whatever gets the job done". It's far easier to ask for forgiveness when you technically broke policy than to go through the bullshit to ask for permission of some clown who has no idea what I'm talking about. That goes hand-in-hand with another 'policy' of mine which I mentioned in another thread; "If you don't understand it, don't touch it". Although there is one thing I'll never breach and that is legislation.Simples.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2016, 05:46:48 am
content: I work in IT, and I see people too. I don't understand the drive to become a business analyst or project manager that people seem to have. I just hate dealing with project managers so why would I want to become one.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2016, 06:42:39 am
content: Project managers glue teams together, coordinate and track activities, report project status to senior management. In a medium to big size organization even a smartest technical person will not be able to get the job done by himself. You need to speak to and motivate many other people from different departments who you have never met before and who you depend on for your deliverable for the project. Technical people are often narrow minded selfish introverts so someone is needed to kick their butt to get things moving. Where I work nothing is done without a project manager, it is simply too many teams involved from different areas so a coordination is required. The project manager requests resources, works with purchasing, accounting,Legal, mid level managers and executives. You as a technician do not want to do all that shit they do, this requires a different mind set.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2016, 07:51:22 am
content: I'm here to quickly get things working again as quickly as possible, because production stopping costs $1000 a minute.

author: Kilrah
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 06, 2016, 08:51:18 am
content: The job of a project manager would be to make sure you're needed as little as possible (i.e. plans are made and things are done so that things stop working as rarely as possible), then assign you to work on improving the enviroment instead of fixing things that break

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2016, 11:58:16 am
content: Déjà vuMy highlight so far is a field engineer we've sent around several PoPs to install some network equipment. He had also to install an ISDN terminal adapter (similar to a POTS modem) for emercency remote management in case everything else fails. The job was to place it somwhere, plug in the PSU, connect it to the ISDN socket, connect it to a specific serial interface of a management router, power it on and to call me to check the installation. All required cables and stuff were provided, all devices were already configured and tested. Obviously a very simple task. I was wrong. The first call lasted over two hours and I had to explain the basics of a RS232 connection to him while debugging what went wrong. Fortunately he understood the concept and for the other PoPs the calls lasted only a moment for checking the emergency remote access. The best thing to do in such a case is to stay calm, very calm.

author: sarepairman2
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2016, 12:13:46 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on July 06, 2016, 06:42:39 amwhat exactly do you do around here?what this really translates to is "i make sure that people who actually do stuff don't have spending money and jury rig shit 500% under what they think it costs to make us, screw the customer"