Yep, that's the attitude. A few jobs ago I worked for a small to medium sized company that was getting by with an IT manager and me as the assistant. When I put in my 2 wks notice the owner decided that I never did anything and he wasn't replacing me. The IT manager put his 2 wks notice in the next day because of it. We later found out that they had to replace the two of us with 4 guys just to stay in business. Last I checked, the firewall that I put in place is still there, years later, without a single update. I wonder if the guys even know what that little box in the bottom of the server cabinet even is. It sure had pretty lights on it, prob why they kept it.
stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Toni Mueller > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:39 PM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Email server and large Emails. > > > Hi, > > On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 14:26:00 -0600, L. V. Lammert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The bigger question is - how does the BOSS know there was a > 30 second > > delay in incoming email due to virus scanning? > > the BOSS probably doesn't know that the delay is owed to the virus > scanning, but I've experienced such people talking on the phone to > their peers, and it goes "Hey Joe, I'll just send you this > presentation > I did yesterday" (or similar), and then get angry when the other side > doesn't have it in an instant - no matter how stupid the idea might > have been. And in such cases, it's the easiest thing to do for them to > bash their sysadmin who's a cost and not a benefit to the company > anyway (I don't subscribe to this attitude). > > > Best, > --Toni++
