[ale] venting about an old sysadmin - WAS: Using OS X as a thin client

[preston.lists at gmail.com (Preston Boyington)]

Jerald Sheets wrote:
> 
> Hey...  I'm a sysadmin.  I see your unkind and ungentle and raise you  
> a devious and unforgiving.  :D
> 

throw in a "spiteful" and a heavy portion of distrust and you could have
the sysadmins that wrongly thought my using a LiveCD to fix a huge comma
delimited text file was grounds for my getting written up.  even after
showing them that Excel and Access choked on the file (several hundred
meg worth), they didn't drop the matter.

one even said, "i could have written a program to do that in FoxPro(?)"

annoyed i said, "unless you could have written the program, verified the
data, and imported it for our surface model in the 30 minutes I wound up
having; we would be better off doing it my way."

thankfully the sysadmins where i am now are very linux centric and i
have nothing but good things to say about them.


ok... i feel slightly better now.

<drops dollar in can as i walk out door>