[ale] Awful story...

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 15:56 -0500, Stephen R. Blevins wrote: 
> If [3 Ltr. corp.] means what I think it means, please keep in mind that
> [3 Ltr. corp.] has been in the forefront of defending Linux in the 
> courts from the ravages of [a bad 3 Ltr. corp.], forcing them into 
> bankruptcy.  *Every* large organization has pockets of brilliant 
> competency and pockets of unbelievable stupidity, at the same time.

Yeah, I'll also comment that, if [3 Ltr. corp.] means what I think it
means, it means that several people need to be FIRED for explicitly
violating a mandatory "no go" policy that forbids this.  Linux support
is not merely option, it's MANDATORY (given certain parameters regarding
which distributions are actually supported) and MANDATORY support is
required for FireFox, IE 7, and Opera.  That's not a choice some low
life manager is allowed to pick and choose over.  I've already clubbed
two departments over mandatory internal policy violations regarding this
and I've go the policy documents bookmarked.  Doesn't always work,
someone always manages to pull an exemption or an extension to avoid
dealing with it "for now", but penalizing someone over supporting Linux
is a big no-no.  They just didn't know how to whack a clueless front
liner.  Unfortunately, those policies are internal and an outsider would
have no access to them in order to point them out to said clueless
managers.

> Stephen R. Blevins
> srblevi at worldnet.att.net

Mike

> 
> aaron wrote:
> > On 2009, Nov, 16, , at 7:56 AM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > 
> >> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for- 
> >> using.html
> >>
> >> Sorry to hear this, but I know it's true from the IBM side.
> >>
> >> You should've seen the blank stares among sales-droids trying
> >> to sell us hardware when we would demand both fully GUI and
> >> fully command-line manageable gear.  You'd swear you just told
> >> them you needed a flux-capacitor and an Infinite Improbability
> >> drive.
> >>
> >> If these big companies are going to tout their Linux compatibility
> >> and their Linux friendliness, they need to also make sure to
> >> understand that people that come a-calling from the Linux world
> >> will have a higher likelihood than ever before of not having
> >> Windows on the desktop.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > The obvious fact in this classic nightmare story of
> > totalitarian corporate structural failure is that it was
> > the project manager at the three letter IT company who
> > deserves to be fired and justifiably blacklisted from ever
> > using the internet again. She is clearly an Incompetent
> > Bureaucratic Monstrosity who has no business working as
> > the manager of a McDonald's fry station, let alone in a
> > major IT operation. She couldn't even pass the simplest
> > single question information technology competency test
> > ever given:  "What is Firefox?"
> > 
> > [3 Ltr. corp.] is clearly at fault and demonstrating equally
> > massive incompetence by allowing such a clueless lump to
> > hold a position of authority. They are also at fault for
> > contracting companies to provide employment services and
> > internet based testing services that are so massively
> > incompetent that they fail to recognize even the most
> > elementary components of the global open internet standards.
> > 
> > Rather than howl at the moon, I suggest howling at the
> > [common] corporate incompetence that is the core of the problem.
> > IT professionals the world over should Boycott the services
> > of [3 Ltr. corp.] until they clean up their act by dismissing
> > this kind of clearly incompetent management and cease
> > contracting with such clearly incompetent employment and
> > internet testing services companies.  It will be doing them
> > a favor, because this kind of stupendous idiocy just makes
> > them look like total buffoons, the kind of industry laughing
> > stock that is incapable of attracting or retaining any kind
> > of respectably skilled partners or employees.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > peace
> > aaron
> > 
> > 
> > 
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