[LUAU] Am I going to TPOSSCON - If not why?

Al Plant webmaster at hawaiidakine.com
Sat Feb 4 16:39:54 PST 2006


Aloha Rob,

Applause for Jim from over here in FreeBSD land too.


Al Plant

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Robert Green wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> You may not know me, I'm a list lurker 99% of the time for the past
> many years, and just now wading through the smoldering backlog of mail
> from the past week on LUAU and HOSEF / HOSEF managers.....
> 
> I just wanted to thank you for:
> 
> a) trying to keep a level head and calm things down when the flames
> were flying
> 
> and
> 
> b) sharing this insightful story -- the suggestiong to bring solutions
> instead of just problems wherever possible strikes me as a sort of
> professional collary of "if you don't have something nice to say, don't
> say anything"
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> --- Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
> 
> Allow me to tell a story.
> 
> Back when I was the hot-shit network (telecommunications and data  
> communications) stud at Sun Microsystems, (late 80s, and very early  
> 90s), back
> when a lot of people called me "Jim net.god Thompson", my new boss,  
> (I'd just been moved up), a very wise Indian gentleman, stopped me  
> during one of my weekly 1:1 rants.
> 
> "Jim", he said to me, "you always bring me problems, but never  
> solutions!"  (You have to imagine it with a thick Indian accent.)
> 
> I was, in a word, "enlightened".
> 
> Sam Rangole (for that was his name) had shined a perfect spotlight on  
> my misbehavior.   I was complaining about how stupid the other groups  
> were, how far they had to go, and how they were not going to reach  
> the goal anytime soon.   He didn't waste any breath giving me "yes  
> but", or "you should", he simply asked me to start bringing him  
> something he could use to do his job.:  Solutions (from an expert).
> 
> In my new state of enlightenment, I started working harder.  I would  
> see a problem, diagnose it, and never raise it to Sam's attention  
> without a suggested path forward.   The results were amazing, rather  
> than fear me, people I worked with started to seek me out.  "How can  
> I make this better?"  "Will you check my results?"  I was no longer  
> someone who would tear them down, but rather *could be counted on* to  
> make them look better.
> 
> So, everyone,  please bring forward solutions to the problems you pose.
> 
> Jim
> 
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