On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Paul Graydon wrote: > That sparks off a random thought. How empowered (for want of a better > word) is the junior sysadmin? Is there a chance that they're not able to > make the leap to problem solving because they're afraid a) They're going > to break things more, and b) they might be overstepping the boundaries > of what they're supposed to do?
I think there's certainly that fear. I mean, as I was a junior, I had a mentor who was very understanding about the "junior guy making mistakes"[1], but I've witnessed less understanding sysadmins berate a junior guy for making the problem worse when "the problem was so simple a [pejorative] could have fixed it". Now, if you've had that reaction, even once in your career, it can definitely cause you to shy away from what is, to the junior SA, out of the box thinking (but to more senior folks is just "the way it's done"), for fear of what might happen if you're wrong. D [1] "Get rid of all these hidden directories, clean that crap up". "OK" "rm -rf .*" _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
