Comment Re:Certs aren't t worth the paper (Score 1) 489
You are assuming to much here, you know what happens when you assume -- you make a$$ out of you and me. The server that was offline was not mission critical, if so it would have never happened. All production work continued as usual. After several months, actually, almost a year of trying to help someone who was getting all of the credit for others and mine work and none was given to persons that was really doing the work... one has to take action to show the boss or owners what is actually going on. There are just some people who will not take help, no matter what you do, this was one of them, he was one who thought he knew it all -- this type of person will not take the time to learn from other nor their own mistakes.
You also assume they were honest mistakes, I assure you that they weren't. Several of them he had been told over and over that they weren't right. Just how many times does someone have to make the same mistakes before you let them go? In the schools it use to be 3 strikes and you were out. They have changed that to "no tolerance" which means if you do something wrong the first time you are out. You cannot continually go behind someone corrected the same mistakes over and over even after you tell the person that it is wrong.
As far is the other 2 persons were concerned: one of them was a programmer, non-administrative type; And, one was my backup before we hired an "CNE" but was also the primary one to take care of desktop and end user issues -- he was performing this task as we were suppose to have a "certified" Novell Engineer on site to handle these type of issues.
And, further more no one said that the network was down -- only one server not the entire network once again you are assuming incorrectly.
In a previous position, I worked directly under the Vice President of Technolegy, without certs of any kind, who believed the same way -- certs aren't worth the paper they are printed on. He went on to say that if he had to take the Microsoft tests he would probably fail them because he knew too much as there is the way that works and the Microsoft way which isn't mutually inclusive. In this position, I did some things with Windows NT that Microsoft said that there wasn't a way to do what we wanted.
I still say that certs aren't worth the paper that they are written on. Certs are a "box" and most people who have certs cannot work outside of that "box". People who have the experience without the certs know how to think outside of that "box"
You also assume they were honest mistakes, I assure you that they weren't. Several of them he had been told over and over that they weren't right. Just how many times does someone have to make the same mistakes before you let them go? In the schools it use to be 3 strikes and you were out. They have changed that to "no tolerance" which means if you do something wrong the first time you are out. You cannot continually go behind someone corrected the same mistakes over and over even after you tell the person that it is wrong.
As far is the other 2 persons were concerned: one of them was a programmer, non-administrative type; And, one was my backup before we hired an "CNE" but was also the primary one to take care of desktop and end user issues -- he was performing this task as we were suppose to have a "certified" Novell Engineer on site to handle these type of issues.
And, further more no one said that the network was down -- only one server not the entire network once again you are assuming incorrectly.
In a previous position, I worked directly under the Vice President of Technolegy, without certs of any kind, who believed the same way -- certs aren't worth the paper they are printed on. He went on to say that if he had to take the Microsoft tests he would probably fail them because he knew too much as there is the way that works and the Microsoft way which isn't mutually inclusive. In this position, I did some things with Windows NT that Microsoft said that there wasn't a way to do what we wanted.
I still say that certs aren't worth the paper that they are written on. Certs are a "box" and most people who have certs cannot work outside of that "box". People who have the experience without the certs know how to think outside of that "box"
