Comments on: Stop Signs vs. Stop Lights http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/16/stop-signs-vs-stop-lights/ im in ur data centrz patchin ur serverz Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: richpo http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/16/stop-signs-vs-stop-lights/#comment-74130 richpo Sun, 18 May 2008 06:40:52 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/?p=1201#comment-74130 I couldn't agree with you more. I feel the same way at were I work. At least once a week I get an e-mail on a new "process" that is being rolled out. I believe this all goes back to having common sense. If you don't have any then you need a boat anchor not just a stop light. We used to have a lot more people with common sense (and people to watch the people without common sense) but then someone thought it was a good idea to try and outsource common sense. This didn't work to well for them. So the next plan was to try and outline common sense through a process called "ITIL". The people still left at the company with common sense are being told they don't know how to do there job anymore and should become a process zombie. A process zombie is much like a real zombie. A regular zombie wants to eat your brains because, it's a zombie and that's what zombies do. A process zombie can only follow processes because that's what a process zombie does no matter how stupid the process may be. If a process zombie does not have a process they might become angry and try to eat your brains anyway ;) You can easily recognize a process zombie by the following phrase: Please reboot your, (modem,computer,....internet) 1st or I can not help you with your issue. -Richpo I couldn’t agree with you more. I feel the same way at were I work. At least once a week I get an e-mail on a new “process” that is being rolled out. I believe this all goes back to having common sense. If you don’t have any then you need a boat anchor not just a stop light. We used to have a lot more people with common sense (and people to watch the people without common sense) but then someone thought it was a good idea to try and outsource common sense. This didn’t work to well for them. So the next plan was to try and outline common sense through a process called “ITIL”. The people still left at the company with common sense are being told they don’t know how to do there job anymore and should become a process zombie. A process zombie is much like a real zombie. A regular zombie wants to eat your brains because, it’s a zombie and that’s what zombies do. A process zombie can only follow processes because that’s what a process zombie does no matter how stupid the process may be. If a process zombie does not have a process they might become angry and try to eat your brains anyway ;)

You can easily recognize a process zombie by the following phrase: Please reboot your, (modem,computer,….internet) 1st or I can not help you with your issue.

-Richpo

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