On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein >> >> 6. An off-site contractor with mad skillz who's on retainer in case > > One big problem with this is --- They got mad skillz but they don't know > your stuff. > Imagine hypothetically hiring a newhire. No matter what skillz they got, > they ain't gonna know all your stuff on the first day. It takes training.
I never had problems with this. I knew a few good contractors, and I would hire one the week before my holidays and spend a couple hours going over everything with them; most likely issues, network maps, etc. Then they'd be on retainer during my vacation. Without fail the day after I'd leave, a disaster would strike. Its like the disasters knew :-) Then again, I haven't seen a solo shop as technical as Mark describes. I know a place less technical, which only had work for one person. They hired a second full time person anyway; they felt the business risk was too high if the sysadmin quit/died/etc. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
