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

I have to agree, a very good place to be leaving.
Unfortuneatley, I've noticed a trend the past decade
or so. It seems I've met more bosses who are totaly
cluelss then decent ones. Most are either hired as a
manager and are businessmen not geeks, or own the
business and are really good at sales but totaly
clueless as to technology and/or business. My last
couple at AK Used computers and Alaska Microsystems
were both nice guys, give ya the shirt off their backs
nice, but had difficulty understanding DOS/Windows 3.1
concepts and even admited not wanting to learn. Makes
it hard to explain to to them at times. Having dealt
with some of them, I can understand why those who are
good at both ends usually can find extremely great
paying jobs. You know, the ones we all complain about
making how many didget income? :o

Almost makes ya apreceate the good ones ;)

                          Kurt

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From: "captgoodnight captgoodnight"
Subject: Re: Charter college Linux courses - Are they
worth anything at all?
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:11:44 -0800

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"
>To: "Damien Hull"
>CC: AKLUG
>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.
>

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