What is your most controversial social opinion?
Most people could solve a whole hell of a lot of their problems if they just quit talkin’ and started doin’.
Jabbering about stuff gets you nowhere. Doing anything at all is almost always better than nothing and gets you so much further. Try it sometime.
It’s really creepy that there’s a large age gap between parents and kids. Huge power imbalance there, right? That shouldn’t be allowed at all. It’s just weird we condone that as a society.
Obligatory just got fired post.
A three month ramp-up period in an infrastructure job? Even in fairly simple environments most people would need six months to be competent. Sounds like they just didn’t like the person for other reasons or wanted the proverbial purple squirrel and didn’t get that.
Because I was born lucky (big brain) and have a lot of experience of my company purchasing and then me and my team integrating other company’s infrastructures, I’m exceptionally good at learning other environments quickly. I can generally learn a new-to-me environment in 2-3 months. But of the IT people I’ve met, for most it takes 6 months to a year. In that area I’m one out of a thousand. If that sounds arrogant, well, good for you but it is the truth*.
Three months is just not long enough for most people and I would not expect it of anyone.
*I worked at a hosting company with a very complicated environment. I learned it in three months to where I was doing large projects completely on my own. Most people there were only assigned any sort of project after six months and large ones only after a year. My manager said he’d never seen anyone ramp up that quickly.
That’s right. That’s what you see the most of on helpdesk or even as a sysadmin (because items the helpdesk can’t solve bubble up to you). So your experience is an endless cavalcade of human stupidity. And just as with retail, even though the vast majority of people are not actually clueless clowns, nearly all that you directly experience are in fact fully dressed as Ronald McDonald.
And as with retail (again), it makes you terribly jaded and misanthropic. Any IT person who has done helpdesk or sysadmin becomes a bit of a jerk for a good damn reason.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
That Argentinian Spanish accent. So sharp and pointy!
I fucking love Katie’s accent.