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- From: glen mccready
- Date: Mon Oct 23, 2000 7:43pm
- Subject: Managing sys admins.
-
- 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.
- -- Benjy Feen
-