bubblegoose's Journal: It's hard not to be territorial

My company is finally interviewing for the second senior sysadmin person. This person would be my peer, there would be two guys junior to us. Interviewed a guy yesterday, about 10 years experience (compared to my 6 years). He has lots of certs and a Master's degree.

Its hard not to just dislike someone like that outright. For the last 3 years I've been the main IS guy here. While the two guys who are junior to me are pretty good at the day to day desktop support stuff, it just seems to me like they don't take initiative in trying new things or just coming up with solutions. So job security has always been easy for me.

Hiring another person would be a good thing, there are so many things that I need to do but the day to day stuff keeps me too busy.

They are also interviewing for an IS admin position. I think I've found my favorite candidate, although my main criteria is how cute she is :) Actually the girl we interviewed has about 4 years help desk experience, she just wants a change. And she's cute so that's always a plus. Good thing I haven't made my criteria clear during the interviews...think of the lawsuits.

Ah...

[jawtheshark]

... yeah... I can understand you (been in that position before, now I'm used to it: it's less work for me). Doesn't mean he isn't a nice guy. :-)

hire him...

[TechnoLust]

if he starts trying to usurp your power, mess things up and say, "That always work before HE came." :-) j/k, don't actually try that.

You can always argue...

[Trolling4Dollars]

...that with his experience, how long do you think he actually plans to stay here?

Re:You can always argue...

[bubblegoose]

Good point. My boss brought up to him since he doesn't have more than two years at any one job. His reply was "I'm getting married and I want to settle down".