[conspire] Why you should always test your backups

[Paul Zander]

True, but asking in a casual way about IT can reveal things about the company culture.
Sometimes there is a response like, "Hank is a good guy and keeps things running smoothly"
Other times the employee rolls their eyes and tries to think of how to respond in a not too negative way.
BTW, I still keep in touch with Hank even though the company closed years ago.

      From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
 To: conspire at linuxmafia.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 2:36 PM
 Subject: Re: [conspire] Why you should always test your backups
   
Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):



> I was never in IT, but I used to ask about the IT department when
> interviewing.   The one time I didn't ask, I found myself at a company
> that treated IT as a cost to be minimized without concern for how much
> time and frustration that caused for everyone else.

Well, this may depress you, but _every_ company treats IT as a cost to
be minimised.  Some are merely worse in this attitude having corrosive
effects on IT than are others.  At the really bad example firms, the


   
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