[ale] New worm destablized Internet

[Greg]

James:

mail me offline for some real hair raisers (runman at speedfactory.com).  I
seriously considered writing a novel about all the stuff that went on there.

ie: Told I was being let go in a week.  4 days later told that I was
staying.  When I told them *I* was leaving got the third degree about "all
they had done for me".

or the guy they hired, let him go home for lunch the first day, and he never
came back.  Smart guy.

Greg Canter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of James S.
> Cochrane
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 10:56 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] New worm destablized Internet
>
>
> I STILL tell stories about some of the idiocy there... Like the time I'd
> taken one of their old 386/20's in to the shop, and they diagnosed the
> problem as a fried motherboard, and wanted something like $400 to replace
> it (this was in '95 or '96, we were ordering new P75's and P90's
> for field
> sites), Mac Warren harangued me for my decision that it wasn't
> cost-effective to have the motherboard replaced, because a new
> system from
> Gateway would have cost $900 (and would have been at LEAST a P90, had a
> considerably larger hard drive, considerably more memory, etc...)  Heck,
> they didn't even bother to take me off the security company
> contact list, I
> got called a year or so later that the alarm was going off and they
> couldn't reach Dale...  At least you saw it in the new offices, the old
> offices had serial cables running to every office for dumb
> terminals, with
> a VERY thick bundle of mostly unlabeled cables (at least 18"
> across) going
> into the server room.  Mac didn't believe us when we said we
> wouldn't need
> a cable duct run to the new server room (such as it was), since we were
> switching to ethernet and a terminal server, so he had them run
> one up near
> the top of the wall anyway...  He just couldn't believe that
> 'all' of that
> data would go over a little bitty CAT-5 cable...  As for the IT
> department,
> their original developers/system administrators did ALL of their
> coding as
> root, and didn't document any of it.  We finally gave up on
> trying to track
> down all of the dependencies, and left the basic configuration
> the way they
> had, with users having full root priveledges but hidden behind a ksh menu
> system...  (best laugh I had was that after I left, Keith apparently
> dropped their new server while moving it from my cube where I'd
> built it to
> the 'server room', causing a hard drive crash... and it'd been a
> few weeks
> since I'd been there, which was the last time a backup had been
> run...)  The ONLY good thing about that job was it got me resume
> fodder as
> a sysadmin...
>
> James
>
> At 10:28 PM 1/26/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >I used to work for CTMS in 97 to 98 (not in the IT section,
> though). What a
> >company.
> >Small world, huh ?
>
>
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