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Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)
From: Pete Templin <petelists () templin org>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:58:38 -0600
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
Pete Templin wrote:
I didn't suggest saying "I'm not gonna do it". I just suggested "You hired me to deploy dynamic routing on your statically-routed network. What prompted you to think that I could configure site-wide anti-virus services such that no one ever reports a virus leak from our enterprise, without training, time to test and develop such a critical solution, or both?"It turns out that they can hire people with all kinds of certifications that say thye can do all of that for a lot less than what they are paying a "specialist".
You're right again. But those generalists would earn a spot on the "don't hire these top network engineers to maintain your fleet of windows boxes" list projected on the screen, while the specialists either wouldn't be doing work outside their scope or the PHB would understand that it's not their specialty.
pt
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- Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?) Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 15)
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