Re: Charter college Linux courses - Are they worth anything at all?

Sounds like a good place to leave...Ignorant managers are a burden...

Have this replacement look into LPI 1 and 2, even if he doesn't take the
tests, studying for them will certainly teach him much. The material bites
right into the meat of things...Especially 2.

Cheers to all the autodidacts,

--eddie

>From: "Shane Spencer" <shane@bogomip.com>
>To: "Damien Hull" <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
>CC: AKLUG <aklug@aklug.org>
>Subject: Re: Charter college Linux courses - Are they worth anything at
>all?
>Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:52:53 -0800
>
>Thanks Damien
>
>My question is due to what I am going through at the moment, we have
>an employee that has never used Linux before which I am cramming
>information into as my last week with this employer is almost up. My
>manager assumed this would be a wise course of action versus
>attempting to find a skilled individual to handle the realm for a
>while.
>
>He didn't know anything about the command line this morning. He is
>speeding along and wants to study more about Linux and use it. Yes, I
>have given him a 3.4ghz HT P4 to use as an Ubuntu workstation.
>
>I am having manager issues right now. A week ago he asked me to train
>our employee how to add email accounts to a postfix system with no
>easy "add user" button. And now adding phones to a complicated voip
>system. My first thought was "ok.. lets get him comfortable with the
>command line" which was vetoed by my manager, "Just get him the info
>he needs to make changes". Even though he can't make changes if he
>can't type in the commands to make them.
>
>So I am officially going nuts, and very happy I am moving off to a
>better place to work where managers listen to people that they hired
>to do something specific. I want the best for this employee burdened
>with learning what he needs to edit files on our server and reload a
>voip system. I pray he never has a typo, which will be in my exit
>report with this company.
>
>I am pretty miffed that this guy hasn't even attempted to find a
>replacement and assumes my work can be done by a newly graduated MCSE
>with no professional experience. :( I need a hug.
>
>Shane Spencer
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