You'll never get promoted to shipping guy that way
- TAGS:Sun Microsystems, workstations
- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Linux & Unix, Management
This pilot fish is hired as a production assistant at an outfit that designs semiconductors. "Then they found out I knew about computers, and since we didn't have any IT department, I became the default IT guy for the non-engineers," says fish. "The engineers used Sun workstations, which I knew little about.
"One day the shipping guy was on vacation, and since that was under the auspices of Production, I became the shipping guy for the week. An engineer came running to me saying he was having a trouble with his workstation.
"'Sorry,' I told him, 'I don't really know anything about the workstations.'
"'Can't you at least look at it?' he pleaded.
"'Well, I could,' I answered, 'if you don't mind me loudly telling everyone within earshot about how the shipping guy knows more about computers than the engineers.'
"He left to solve the problem by himself."
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