Backstage
08.26.08 - 03:37pm
So, first things first, a little about what I do I guess.
The short of it is that I do desktop support here at Mozilla. All of it. Desktop support is an odd position because while the work invariably ends up being less technical than that of the other members in my department, I — and this isn’t immediately obvious — actually have a higher level of access than probably anyone else in the company. This includes my boss, his boss, all the way on up the chain. This is so, in part, because I actually have no-questions-asked physical access to everyone else’s computers, let alone the datacenter and all the requisite administration privileges of someone working in IT. That, along with the simple fact that my job requires I interface with literally everyone in the company, means I have a sort of backstage pass to all of Mozilla.
So, what does that mean? Well, I guess the hope there is that all this freedom makes me uniquely qualified to share a point of view with the world (or the PLANET. Ha!) at large, on Mozilla. One that’s both broadly sampled, and finely nuanced. A point of view that’s just about as close to the ground level as you can get.
The view from the bottom.
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