On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 14:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Reminds of something that happened at a previous job, where I was part > of the small Unix team. We had bought an expensive pile of HP-UX related > kit from HP and apparently also some HP consultant time for training > on said kit. First day of training, HP consultant shows up in usual > full on business attire. Starts talking about stuff (e.g. SAN management > and and clustering related things) in a very ... "HP business" kind of > lingo, which rubbed us rather the wrong way. So I interrupt him, pointing > out: a) we already understand Unix TYVM and are mostly interested in the > HP-UX specific details and b) drop the business lingo and start talking > plain text, we're Unix admins, not MBAs. With a heavy unsaid implication > of "You are wearing a suit while explaining tech, that makes it hard to > take you seriously". > > So, step 1) said HP consultant _did_ drop the "HP business" lingo and > started talking plain Unix. And step 2) beginning the next day, he always > showed up at our site in shirt and jeans and was taken seriously now ;-) > > That was ... sometime in the early 2000.
Very nice story. :-) In about 1989 my company sent me to London for a 3 day training course on 3Com 3+Open, 3Com's fancy new NOS based on OS/2 1.0. The airline lost my luggage. I turned up on day 1 in a not-too-fresh T-shirt and jeans. Everyone else was in a suit. I explained: no suitcase. Day 2, no suitcase. T shirt was now "fragrant". Some other students on the course had adopted casual wear. Day 3: my luggage arrives! I turn up in a fresh clean suit. Everyone else, tutor included, is in jeans and tees. :-D My company did _not_ adopt 3+Open or OS/2. On the basis of my experience we moved to Novell instead. At the time, a good choice, I still think today. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
