[ale] Insolence of those asking for FREE help on public lists

[Carl Forsell]

I also have seen this... After 10 years as a Novell Administrator, I hired
an assistant at my previous place of employment.  My assistant had NO
experience other than as a middle level user. I took him under my wing, sent
him to training that I would have loved to go to, gave him a server to take
home and "play with" (gave him a P166 when I had a 386-40 at home).  After 6
months of employment, he announced to me that after only 6 months on the job
he knew more than I.  I wanted to kill him.

Just before I left there (2 of us were supporting mission critical systems
with 180 users in 8 sites - me pulling an average of 72 hours a week, and
him at 60 or so), I overheard him telling a few others that he could get
more done if I was not in his way.  Since I left (4 1/2 months ago) he has
worked every day (on call 24/7/365) with an average of over 90 hours a week.
For this they gave him a 10K raise and took away his overtime.  His net pay
has dropped slightly and if broken down to an hourly rate he is somewhere
between McDonalds and Burger King Counter help ( no exageration).  People
with attitudes like his get what they have coming sooner or later.

I am very gratefull to the assistance offered by ALE, and always attempt to
pass this along.  There are good people out there, and ALE seems to be the
home of many of them!


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy T. Bouse <undrgrid at toons.UnderGrid.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: [ale] Insolence of those asking for FREE help on public lists


In the many years I've been working with Linux as a beginning newbie
and throughout the years of learning and in turn helping people freely as I
had been helped I find it terribly disturbing that there is still a high
number of people that don't understand Linux yet know enough to find the
mailing lists to seek help yet show complete and utter insolence to any help
they receive by replies like "your advise is not worth anything over here"
when they obviously had a problem which prompted a posting to a public list
and advice was freely given...
I've even seen this response from other interactions during face to
face encounters where they ask someone they think has more knowledge and
insight into a problem but once you assist them they suddenly have this vast
knowledge and discount anything you say on the matter... What is it that
makes
people behave this way I don't know... And probably never will... I guess
that's just how some people choose to live their lives...

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