politics in da workplace

[Summo]

Close enough.

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[PR.]

Gah your lucky.

Our managers think we sweet f*ck all day because at the end of the month we can't say we earnt you X amount of money

We also have the managers who complain that they don't have the time to learn how to do things like use our new Intranet (read managers are too scared to look foolish by not knowing anything about IT)

The other annoying thing is people don't appreciate how difficult things are:

• Wednesday - I wanna new domain to email from. BY FRIDAY
• Thursday - Create new email domain
• Friday - Did I not say I wanted to email 3000 emails to a list of addresses that are mostly wrong?!

Oh and we just have to have our company name in green so we must send HTML emails, [No techy, I with no clue, know more about email] which then to the 20% of the addresses which are right, come out as HTML nonsense

 

[mr.Blacky]

first off all i aint a techie so don't get me wrong lol. i do know a bit more then the average person but where i have a problem is with that some people dont even think about it, even about the easy things. I cant count the people that cant cut/copy and paste though i have to say i dont have any patience with dumb questions

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Sar
Summo: I'd let them continue on their merry way, and when the server collapses tell them exactly why it has done so: It's their fault. And when they (inevitably) say "Well why weren't we warned?" you can pull out your screenies etc and say remember these?

Then call them selfish cunts.

Sar Sar Sar Summo can't do that...anymore than I can.

We techs [even us techs who sometimes disguise ourselves by wearing suits] can't let the network take itself out...no matter how much we want to. We can't because...we're techs. Senior management know this, and exploit us brutally.
I happen to have been through a problem alot like the one Summo speaks of. In my case it was space on servers which held users homedirs. [you understand I can't really go into specifics heh].
Almost every server was full. I try to make people aware of the upcoming problem. It goes a little like this:

ME: the servers are full. either older files must be archived and taken off the production servers or extra drives must be installed.
THEM: no. you may not touch the files on the production servers
ME: the servers are full. either older files must be archived and taken off the production servers or extra drives must be installed. if you do not ok this, there will be all kinds of possible problems up to data-loss
THEM: this is unacceptable. we will complain to your boss.
ME: whatever. still, you must ok me either cleaning out the drives or upgrading the servers
THEM: no. you may not touch the files on the production servers. you must maintain 99.9% availability without removing files or changing the servers in any way.

Five days later one of the servers is down. 300+ people can not work. Two days after that a rush-shipment of 140 18GB U2W scsi drives arrives together with a note from "them". all 22 homedir servers are to be upgraded before tomorrow or it's our collective arse. Now..........can someone please tell me why the heck they didn't just allow us to upgrade the servers in the first place? if they had let me upgrade no server would ever have gone down ffs

 

[mr.Blacky]

caus it is smart? uhmmmm can explain a bit its called "just in" theory = just have what you need, no waste of space
though in your case it was "just not in time" and they should have believed you

 

[PR.]

At the moment I'm just the asistant techy, but if I was put in that situation I would put memos out on red paper to all senior management, document it, try to make the management reply via memos so they prove its them to blame.

Then when I can do no more, I would just sit back and wait, make some reservations for new HD's for when it does happen.

Then boom,

Clueless boss "Duh, y does the server not work?"
Me " You forced me to let it break"
Boss "I knew nothing of it!!"
Me "Apart from that red memo on your desk and
the reply from you on my desk"
Boss "Get more Disk drives!"
Me "Sign this and there dispatched!"

To the Illiterate IT peeps

What really annoys me is when peeps go behind ya back to complain, whats the point in that, it just makes me more stuburn to help them

For an office full of adults it often feels like a McDonalds training semina :/

 

[Summo]

Oooooh yeah...

It's like they think we're lying to them or something. Maybe there's some part of the Manager's brain which is responsible for translation...

Techie: Servers are full. Need new drives or there'll be downtime and possible loss of data.
Manager hears: I want to spend money so that I can buy stuff you don't understand, probably to take home or sell to a rival company. I also want to read all the information on this server so I can sell that to a rival company as a sweetener. I'm bluffing about the downtime.
Manager: No. Fix it.

 

[SoWat]

I'm thinking of putting in a bid (in my boss's name) for this item . I particularly like the way he wants to 'surprise' the winner

 

[Testin da Cable]

I normally wouldn't have posted this. Was very pissed off tho. Ah well

 

[Wij]

Wij-><-TdC

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

Ain't that sweet

 

[Testin da Cable]

wub woo wijlet

 

[Wij]

:wub:


fs, some privacy !!2