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All true, but that still doesn't answer what possesses someone to pack their cell phone in a box.
by bedhead 13y ago
All true, but that still doesn't answer what possesses someone to pack their cell phone in a box.
- cpach 13y agoSeriously guys, take it easy. My question is: Who never makes mistakes? I certainly do not belong in that set. And I like Patrick's candid business anecdotes. Snarky comments like this might disencourage people from writing useful advice here. Which would be very unfortunate.
- bedhead 13y agoJust trying to be light-hearted about it, sorry if that did not come across.
- lsc 13y ago>All true, but that still doesn't answer what possesses someone to pack their cell phone in a box. this is the primary difference I see between programmers and sysadmins, development and operations. I know programmers who don't own cellphones at all, while I know some sysadmins who take tertiary backup communication devices on vacation. It's a difference in focus. Of course, most programming jobs have /some/ operational responsibilities, and most sysadmin jobs have /some/ development responsibilities, but most people see themselves as primarily one or the other, and act accordingly.
- lsc 13y agoNote, I agree that packing your cellphone in a box was a mistake either way. But if you are primarily an operations/sysadmin type? that would be a really big deal kind of mistake, one that you probably wouldn't make very often. To a Developer type who saw their operations role as secondary, sure, it's still a mistake, but it's a smallish, forgettable kind of mistake.