--- On Fri, 21/1/11, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Biju Chacko <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your "bucket list"? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 8:59 > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:06 AM, > Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> > wrote: > > "We've all heard the "herding cats" analogy with > regard to managing > > programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a > neighborhood gang of > > neurotic pumas on jet-powered hoverbikes with nasty > smack habits and > > opposable thumbs. Oh, and as a manager you're a > neurotic junkie puma > > too, only they cut your thumbs off and whereas all the > other pumas get > > to drive around on their badass hoverbikes and fire > chainguns at the > > marketing department, YOU have to drive a maroon AMC > Gremlin behind them > > and hand out Band-Aids and smile a lot, when all > you're REALLY thinking > > about is how to get one of them to let you borrow his > hoverbike for a > > few minutes so you can show those fools how it's DONE. > This is because > > managers are usually people who proved that they were > handy with a > > chaingun and were thus rewarded by having their thumbs > cut off and their > > weapons handed to some punk college hire." > > Amateur. > > I find that a healthy sense of terror helps keep sysadmins > in line. It > also helps if they don't think of you as the manager but as > the BOFH > keeping an eye on them. > > -- b
NOTHING helps keep sysadmins in line. They are born without fear, or have it 'smacked' out of them.
