On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:27 AM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Wow! I thought I was the only one seeing such long times to resolve
>> support issues.
>
> this is going to come across very negatively, but I have to honestly state
> that I can hardly remember an instance where a support issue was solved (I
> know there was 1 or 2 that I was involved in) by the technician and not
> myself, if it was ever solved at all.  I've seen little actual benefit to
> my support contracts, at least where I was involved.  Most of my colleagues
> that don't have the same skill set and/or background may feel differently.
>

One of the reasons I left Red Hat support a while back was because the
questions had gone down in skill needed to answer. When 19 out of 20
questions were being answered by reading a man page to user... it was
no longer fun to work in Support. I found that working at other
places, it was pretty much the same situation... many of the questions
could be answered by doing some research, but most people did not seem
to know how to do that.


> admittedly I'm an RHCE, but if as a customer I can't call in and expect to
> have a tech that can help me*, maybe they need a better support procedure
> for those customers that know more than the average tier 1 tech.
>

Probably, but it usually the customers who want tier 2/3 techs don't
want to pay for them (or as one boss at a big corp told me, if we
wanted that we wouldn't be paying for you :).)





-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"

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