<OT> Did I do the right thing?

[Jerry McBride]

I just finished answering a plea for help from a newly installed unix admin. 
He needed help finishing off the install of a an applicaiton that the "old" 
previous admin hadn't completed. My take of the situation was that the "old 
guy" was chopped off at the knees, juist as the project he was working on got 
started...

Anyways, I politely pointed out where and how to gather the needed 
documentation to complete the project. It's funny, I would have assumed the 
documentation should have been there already. The response I got back was 
kinda snotty, so typical of todays youth and it ended in yet another plea for 
help...

After finishing my brandy and pondering what to do about this last bleet for 
help... I responded with a paraphrased quote I learned so long ago... 
Something like...

"If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day... if you teach a man how to 
fish, he will eat for the rest of his life"... I then told the young MSCE to 
"GO FISH".

I'm not conflicted about what I told the guy... I'm just a tad bit concerned 
that he won't groc it... :') Did I do the right thing?

Cheers...

P.S. Happy birthday to me... 48 and none the wiser. :') Uhhh... BudWiser...

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