From Something to Nothing (and back)
Gretchen Phillips
University at Buffalo
Abstract
This paper addresses the experience that I have had in
making the transition from technician (UNIX systems administrator
variety) to management. It discusses some of the issues that I
have had to cope with in this unfamiliar territory. If this
paper has any management-speak in it, it is only because I have
included it by accident, as my background is as a technician. I
won't say that nothing, but likely very little, in this paper has
anything to do with management theory; rather it is just the
experience that I have had over the past several years.
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