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Jenny Spitfire
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2008.02.13 01:12:00 -
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 Originally by: Darwinia
IT breed and raised since I was 12.. no escape for me anymore. 
But it worked ok for me.. got a job (I've been doing for about 10 years now) in development 2 weeks after I graduated. In my country some have to wait years to get a job in their proper field.
Wehre is that sountry?
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Posted - 2008.02.13 04:27:00 -
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Whatever you people that are studying for the IT business be mentally prepared for going into the airlines IT departments.
I just got on since i was a kid and my first real IT project was redesigning a network from one of my country's ministry.
After that the jobs and projects just kept rolling.
Tho i would recomend extended vacations from time to time or you risk the chance of burning out your chip.
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Posted - 2008.02.13 12:00:00 -
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IMHO, an IT degree should require a lot of psychology courses as well as mandatory seminars with IT veterans (10 years or more in at least 4 different companies). The new IT generation is often ill prepared when it comes to dealing with IT people. And lets examine a few:
 The old backstabbing dog:
You find this ones in companies with a very low turn over rate. They have been waiting for a promotion for years but nobody leaves and they are stuck. Every year the company opens up a very limited number of positions. The backstabber knows this and will deposit vast amounts of mud on your face to ensure he looks better than you when the time comes.
The old nucklehead:
These are usually found in management roles. They used to be the gurus of their day but at some point, they were move to management and stop studying new technologies in favor of managerial seminars. They still believe that their old methods are the best and refuse to change. They'll force you to write stupid reports on excel that could be automated with 10-liner. You can usually spot them by their love affair with telnet, their hatred of SSH or their lack of multiple monitors.
The new smarty-arse:
Those are usually 20y-olds that have been in contact with the backstabber, the knucklehead or both. The new smarty-arse was usually a script kiddie who started reading alt 2600 during his first high school year. He is now bitter and on a quest to probe himself to the world. He wont sleep until he finds an error in everything you do. He then proceeds to email your mistakes to the world, with a technical analysis on how he spotted it and what needs to be done to correct it.
The leech:
These ones are computer illiterate people who learned a few commands of the internet, got a real IT guy to make him a killer resume and got the interview the day the boss was lazy. They lack the basic skills required to troubleshoot the simplest issues and depend on others to do their work for them. They are usually nice guys who will pay your lunches and bring you candies and goodies.
And well, that was a little bit off-topic but it needed to be said and it's my thread anyway so I can do it.
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Victor Valka
Caldari
Kissaki Corporation
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Posted - 2008.02.13 13:07:00 -
[34]
Do continue.
*takes notes*
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Wired
An Eye For An Eye
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2008.02.13 21:29:00 -
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Originally by: Shameless Avenger
The new smarty-arse:
Those are usually 20y-olds that have been in contact with the backstabber, the knucklehead or both. The new smarty-arse was usually a script kiddie who started reading alt 2600 during his first high school year. He is now bitter and on a quest to probe himself to the world. He wont sleep until he finds an error in everything you do. He then proceeds to email your mistakes to the world, with a technical analysis on how he spotted it and what needs to be done to correct it.
Hmm this description sounds a bit familiar...
20 y-old - check, well i'm 25 close enough.
smarty-arse - check
bitter - very
quest to prove himself - yup
wont sleep til he finds an error - why stop at 1?
e-mail mistakes to world - yup, but i do remember to remove myself from the mailing list.
I was rather pleased when i managed to break the security model our applications are built on. I then proceeded to show everyone in the office how easy it was, but i didn't tell them how to fix it, I'm just employed to find the problems.
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Shameless Avenger
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Posted - 2008.02.14 03:59:00 -
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Originally by: Victor Valka
Do continue.
*takes notes*
As requested...
The Puppet Master:
They were also old gurus that were promoted to management. Unlike their knucklehead counterparts, they chose to keep up to date in new technologies and neglect any managerial training. As a result, they still hold their guru-know-everything status but they lack the most basic social skills to actually lead people. They are usually spotted by their ridiculously excessive micro-management and their bad temper.
The Bystander:
This is a true guru. He knows everything there is to know. He is also aware that going for manager means becoming a knucklehead or a puppet master. He prefers retirement before becoming one of those. He tries very hard to perform his job up to expectations thus avoiding unemployment but he never exceeds expectations thus avoiding promotion. He sits there on his cubicle, does his thing and go home. You will rarely hear anything from them or about them. You can spot them by the lack of technical books on their desks, as they purposely hide their knowledge to avoid an increase in workload.
The Wannabe:
These are actually leeches in self-improvement training. Their goal is to achieve the bystander rank. They still ask you to 'help' them from time to time but they try to learn how to do it. You can spot them by the proud display of 'for dummies' textbooks on their desks.
The Qbert:
This guy is a variant of the bystander. He is also a true guru but unlike his cousin, he still believes there could be happiness in IT. For the Qbert, hoping from one company to another is as easy as changing underwear. As the bystander, they also have their desks free of technical books, but they are not hiding them. They actually leave their books at home because they change jobs so often that it's easier that way (travel light). Their resume is usually over 10 pages long. If you watch them closely you might spot them checking monster.com and similar sites on a daily basis, constantly updating their resume.
The Automatron:
This is a leech that has been at it for so many years that he finally learned how to do his job. He knows by heart every procedure about the systems he works with. He is liked by the bystanders because he takes care of a good chunk of the workload. He looks like he's the real deal but every now and then a weird never-happened-before error pops up and he starts having seizures. When that happens, the bystanders help him out before he convulses to death.
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Sharupak
Minmatar
Knights Of the Black Sun
Brotherhood Of Steel
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Posted - 2008.02.14 04:33:00 -
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Originally by: Shameless Avenger
Originally by: Victor Valka
Do continue.
*takes notes*
As requested...
The Puppet Master:
They were also old gurus that were promoted to management. Unlike their knucklehead counterparts, they chose to keep up to date in new technologies and neglect any managerial training. As a result, they still hold their guru-know-everything status but they lack the most basic social skills to actually lead people. They are usually spotted by their ridiculously excessive micro-management and their bad temper.
The Bystander:
This is a true guru. He knows everything there is to know. He is also aware that going for manager means becoming a knucklehead or a puppet master. He prefers retirement before becoming one of those. He tries very hard to perform his job up to expectations thus avoiding unemployment but he never exceeds expectations thus avoiding promotion. He sits there on his cubicle, does his thing and go home. You will rarely hear anything from them or about them. You can spot them by the lack of technical books on their desks, as they purposely hide their knowledge to avoid an increase in workload.
The Wannabe:
These are actually leeches in self-improvement training. Their goal is to achieve the bystander rank. They still ask you to 'help' them from time to time but they try to learn how to do it. You can spot them by the proud display of 'for dummies' textbooks on their desks.
The Qbert:
This guy is a variant of the bystander. He is also a true guru but unlike his cousin, he still believes there could be happiness in IT. For the Qbert, hoping from one company to another is as easy as changing underwear. As the bystander, they also have their desks free of technical books, but they are not hiding them. They actually leave their books at home because they change jobs so often that it's easier that way (travel light). Their resume is usually over 10 pages long. If you watch them closely you might spot them checking monster.com and similar sites on a daily basis, constantly updating their resume.
The Automatron:
This is a leech that has been at it for so many years that he finally learned how to do his job. He knows by heart every procedure about the systems he works with. He is liked by the bystanders because he takes care of a good chunk of the workload. He looks like he's the real deal but every now and then a weird never-happened-before error pops up and he starts having seizures. When that happens, the bystanders help him out before he convulses to death.
That almost rounds it off..
There is one level above bystander guru and if you have one of these in your company, you are very lucky.
The Linchpin
This is the Bystander that knows his ****, so much so that the company he/she works for doesnt have the first clue that if he/she died, retired or got new employment, that they would be completely sunk. Generally happy perky people, The Linchpin will make your head spin with 30 seconds of conversation (if you are lucky enough to speak with these type of people that long as they are so busy) that you will spend the rest of the day trying to figure it out. The ignorant company they work for will not hire them to management because they know enough that finding someone to take their place would be a serious challenge. Some other smart company will eventually woo them over. You know that time when x software company you were a huge fan of...that delivered great technical support all of a sudden delivered crappy tech support? Yeah that was when some new director came in to that company to shake things up and allowed The Linchpin to walk out the door.
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Shameless Avenger
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Posted - 2008.02.14 05:14:00 -
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Originally by: Sharupak
That almost rounds it off..
There is one level above bystander guru and if you have one of these in your company, you are very lucky.
The Linchpin
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