[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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"All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carroll
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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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