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Term used to describe the embittered but experienced network engineer who has the infuriating habit of knowing mostly everything that a young engineer is still learning. And will tell stories and tales from the “old days”, which of course, young engineers don’t understand or much even care about.
Grumpy Old Network EngineeR
Plural form GONERS to refer to a group of GONER telling stories over beer.
Yes. I’m told that by my younger colleagues that I am a GONER.
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Greg is a Network and Security Architect / Designer / Engineer working freelance in the UK and worked for Resellers, DotCom's, Large Corporate's and Service Providers across a variety of products & Vendors. He prefers to work for end users, believes in the life cycle, total cost of ownership and that near enough is often good enough. He likes talking about himself in the first person to feel "royal", even when hosting the Packet Pushers Podcast on Data Networking. More about Greg at http://etherealmind.com/who-am-i/ and you can follow him on Twitter.
EtherealMind hosts a Podcast on Data Networking Industry with hosts that are independent, with guests from the Community and Vendors. Looking at technology, industry and our work lives. Our motto: Too much networking would never be enough.
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Yep, that’s the way it’s configured.
what about the Grumpy Young Network Engineer ?
GYNE ?
According to Wikipedia “Gyne is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera). …”
now it all makes sense