[Wolves] Yeah got on the open advantage Linux admin course.

[Peter Cannon]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 12:13, Kev Adams wrote:

> Very short sighted of them - surely it pays to keep staff happy & update
>  their skills.  From what I've read on the list you ARE a sysadmin aren't
>  you? Certainly seem to have enough systems that you're administering :~)

lol 
You hiding in my office somewhere?
Actually, at work, I run a W2K & XP pro machines on a KVM switch then of 
course theres this Fedora Laptop that I also use to administer the CentOS Web 
Server upstairs so I suppose your correct.

> No wish I needed to - business ain't that good Ha!

I'll see your Ha and raise you a harrumph!
Business is crap, I predicted the bottom would fall out the hardware market 
this year for resellers and it looks like I maybe proved right.

Its a brilliant time for end users (Joe Public) Dell are doing a dogs bollocks 
machine for £399 with a 17 inch TFT even buying the parts from Morex it cant 
be beat and theres just no margin in it.

We've stopped building our own, thank god for service contracts is all I say. 
mind you its harder for us as we don't sell to the public.

> > It states in employment law that employees are entitled to go on
> > training courses funded by the firm.  I don't know the up to date
> > legislation but it was pretty good when I was doing my union bit back
> > in the late 1990's.  It will have improved to greater extent by now.
> > Of course, employers will still make it difficult for people, which is
> > totally wrong.

As I say I looked into it and found that it wouldn't cost them a bean, I even 
offered to take annual leave to go on the course.

> Sure if you get a reputation for going against company policy you're
> probably not going to last too long :-(

Oooooh you know me so well! I've never liked being a sheep following the 
heard ;)

-- 
Regards
Peter Cannon
Fedora Core 4 & Suse 10.0
Jabber:highwayman.turpin at gmail.com

"There is every excuse for not knowing,
There is no excuse for not asking!"
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/attachments/20060126/b41bed5c/attachment.bin