jjstautt

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http://www.competitivebroadband.com/consumer/

We get to meet and hear from the IT consultant this Thursday about all the changes he wants to make to PI. I sit here pondering what drastic measure he will try to impose on us that’s going to push me past the brink instead of enjoying a nice labour day. I imagine since I am only an underpaid peon (Systems Administrator) I will not get the full story of recommendations.

Some things he suggested in our one-on-one meeting way back:

• Give postdocs and faculty Administrative privileges (I am ok with once we stop hoteling their desks when they’re away)
• Hire someone with (Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, Python, C++, etc) coding experience for use by researchers
• outsource web development. On-staff coders should be integrators only
• outsource networking
• outsource email (Exchange)
• outsource web hosting
• outsource ……..

If there weren’t so much stuff to do around PI I would be worried about still having a job after this meeting. The reality is there’s too much to do.