27 Mar
2024
27 Mar
'24
7:34 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024, 15:20 Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 14:50, Alexander Schreiber via
cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
If your company's primary aim was to have a reliable file server with
fine-grained permissions, I'd say you made a fair choice.
At a SIGUCCS conference once in my early career I showed up in ripped blue
jeans and a T-shirt for my paper presentation. My employer was aghast but
after the talk I was recruited by another university ;-)
-Henry
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.