teaching young IT certed person about old minis/mainframes

[Tom Sparks]

On 20/11/14 19:29, Dave G4UGM wrote:
> You probably don't. What you need to do is get them in a learning mood, where they want to learn, and then they may teach themselves. How you do this depends on the business culture where you are and the person themselves, and the resources you have available. When you say "maintain" what does this involve, hardware maintenance, software maintence, admin tasks such as adding user accounts, backups?
> 
> Dave
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tom
>> Sparks
>> Sent: 20 November 2014 06:31
>> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>> Subject: teaching young IT certed person about old minis/mainframes
>>
>> A question for the ones that work in the industry and are working with old
>> mini and/or mainframes:
>>
>> How do you teach a young IT certed person about the old minis/mainframe
>> that your department maintains?
> 
I would like hear some war stories......
the know-it-alls, the ph**k-ups, the clients from hell, etc

tom