Article: 180114 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: Simon Fraser Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Tact at an Interview Date: 20 Apr 2000 10:25:35 GMT Organization: Somewhere Lines: 43 Approved: Choice of bureaucracies Message-ID: <8dmluv$l3a$1@wave.pipex.net> References: <38fe1631.133926628@news-server> Reply-To: simon@surfers.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blood.cam.uk.internal X-Trace: wave.pipex.net 956226335 21610 172.31.3.186 (20 Apr 2000 10:25:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Apr 2000 10:25:35 GMT User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981002 ("Phobia") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.6 (sun4u)) Path: news1.meer.net!news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warm.news.pipex.net!pipex!wave.news.pipex.net!not-for-mail Xref: news1.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:180114 Mark Atwood wrote: >> I'm interviewing for a bob-type position tomorrow. I'm wondering if >> it's a good/bad thing to wear a leatherman clearly visible with a >> business suit. > I keep my tools in a hipside belt pack, even to formal occations, > and to interviews. Keep your tools because they are useful, not > because of an "impression" you want to leave. They may also be useful if the interviewer decides to test your hardware skills, although the chances of that happening are low, IME. For some reason, there are people out there that consider questions like "Do you know what TCP stands for?" sufficient to determine whether or not a candidate is an experienced sysadmin. o/~ Alarm bells ring, are ya listenin'? See orgcharts, jobs are missin' A resume to write, we're searchin' tonight Jobhunting in a corporate wonderland. Gone away, is the sysadmin, Here to stay is a monkey, He follows the rules, never uses his brain, Working in a corporate wonderland. In the startup we can find a good job, For recovery and funfilled things, They'll ask "Got share options?" We'll say "No man! But sanity is a harder to be found!" Later on, we'll conspire As the business goes down in fire, To form a startup, That's not so f!cked up, Working in a corporate wonderland." o/~ Simon.