On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 11:32 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote: > BTW - I keep telling managers, my job is to make IT BORING.
Yes, that's our job -- but it's terrible PR. Every time you pick up a telephone handset and hold it to your ear there's dial tone. It's a constant, something you expect without question. And nobody appreciates it. No one thinks about the high technology supporting that dial tone: the redundant switches and pathways, the excess capacity, the skilled workforce always staying a step ahead of Murphy. We quietly do our jobs, keeping our systems running 24x7, providing our variant of "dial tone" -- and we are as invisible as the Bell System folks. But when a MS-Windows server crashes, watch the accolades roll in when the PFCSKs reboot it. "What would we do without these guys? They've saved the day again!" Firefighters are glamourous heroes. You're just another expensive body. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
