Purely Whimsical

My instructor is an (edited), (edited), (edited), man with (edited). And I have very politely refrained from saying it out loud and just trying to get through it.

He is admittedly knowledgeable. You have to be, to be a CCIE. Of course, the test was far easier when he did it over 10 years ago, but who’s counting? He had to take other tests every few years or so to keep the CCIE, and he has.

Grr, all that doesn’t change arrogance and ego, which I would excuse a little more if he didn’t just read directly from the slides that Cisco provides!!! He also has neatly slid around answering any in depth question people have.

… And today he yelled at me for an incorrect ACL (Access Control List for you technophobes, made for many things including primitive firewalls) - which I knew and was correcting - and then yelled again when he saw my correct answer. He didn’t understand my solution, and made me “fix” my correction. Strangely enough, his “fix” didn’t work.. and mine did!

I really dislike being corrected when I know I’m right, especially when the person who’s doing the correcting is yelling.