Tingling with Anticipation
It seems the social experiment is over. I have left work today and upon my return we will have new leadership and direction. We (I feel like part of the management team even in my defacto state) have hired a new manager named Jason something and he starts on Monday. I haven't seen his creds but I keep hearing buzzwords like "Proffesional",
"Experienced", "Seasoned", etc...
I actually can't wait. It's been nice being out from under my last boss who I love to death as person but felt very uninspired while she was there. We desperately need some direct management. I mean someone other than me has handle the stuff that is middle management. My company is what most people would label as a small company (under 250 employees) but we do big business. Big business generates email and email needs a response. Since we don't have an official full time manager those duties have kind of been falling to who-ever could get around to it and typically it feels like that's been me.
Now I don't mind picking up the slack but I can't keep people from crawling into my ass and stinking up the place. I'm not delusional and think that my department couldn't exist without me but some days it sure does feel that way.
I mean I go out of my way to make life simpler for people. I am not a knowledge whore that does everything himself without explaining the how's and why's of how stuff works at my job. I have typed up over 800 mb's of txt files as walk-throughs for various job functions like how to re-dial on the desk phone to how to perform a live server swap on a clients production network.
And people still come to me with stuff like hey scoolio(real name withheld for national security reasons) what's a thin-client and will it work with our software?
I had an interesting discussion at work today too and I wonder how other people feel about this.
"paper tigers" if you're in IT I know you've heard the term before. I think everyone would agree that experience is better than education but is this a valid argument? It's kind of chicken and the egg. I don't have any paper certs at all. I should, I could, but I just don't. I've personally worked with a lot of really smart people that never had certs either and I'm only an eight of what those guys are. I have also met lots of real sharp guys with certs and I respect the hell out of them, but people with certs and zero experience and attitude to boot. Man fuck that I wanna bring an AK (not Alaska think Kalishnakov) to work start paintball practicing.
I hate clueless tech's (see previous article) but I seriously hate clueless co-workers. Talk about killing the esprit-de-corps try watching a co-worker die on a call and then see your phone light up with a conference call and you jump into the "what do you mean the backup isn't all there" and what the fuck have you done with my server?"
Everyday the whole let's start our consulting company thing gets more and more attractive.
I think I'm going to do one of the following sometime in the near future:
It's not as bad as it sounds, I'm just venting.
This whole Service Pack 2 thing is killing the helpdesk. I don't know what's worse: eating crow for teaching people to do their windows updates religiously or telling people I'm sorry windows sp2 killed your application and we will have it fixed sometime in the near future.
Things are looking brighter especially the red ink on my bank account. Ever since my schedule at work got shifted to the late shift and my wonderful/beautiful domestic partner had to quit her job we have been bri-z-oke. She just started working again at the local hospital, in SICU of all places, and the money should start trickling back in but we are so far behind I considered selling bodily fluids (all of them).
If my job would put me out on the road I could really get back in the black much quicker and probably even reduce my stress level but I doubt they'd let me leave the office and end up reducing the available knowledge level.
something's got to give soon or I'm going postal.
More to come later. Does anyone even read my blog? Let me know.
Posted bleary eyed, and I'm all out of meds late on a Friday Night.
"Experienced", "Seasoned", etc...
I actually can't wait. It's been nice being out from under my last boss who I love to death as person but felt very uninspired while she was there. We desperately need some direct management. I mean someone other than me has handle the stuff that is middle management. My company is what most people would label as a small company (under 250 employees) but we do big business. Big business generates email and email needs a response. Since we don't have an official full time manager those duties have kind of been falling to who-ever could get around to it and typically it feels like that's been me.
Now I don't mind picking up the slack but I can't keep people from crawling into my ass and stinking up the place. I'm not delusional and think that my department couldn't exist without me but some days it sure does feel that way.
I mean I go out of my way to make life simpler for people. I am not a knowledge whore that does everything himself without explaining the how's and why's of how stuff works at my job. I have typed up over 800 mb's of txt files as walk-throughs for various job functions like how to re-dial on the desk phone to how to perform a live server swap on a clients production network.
And people still come to me with stuff like hey scoolio(real name withheld for national security reasons) what's a thin-client and will it work with our software?
I had an interesting discussion at work today too and I wonder how other people feel about this.
"paper tigers" if you're in IT I know you've heard the term before. I think everyone would agree that experience is better than education but is this a valid argument? It's kind of chicken and the egg. I don't have any paper certs at all. I should, I could, but I just don't. I've personally worked with a lot of really smart people that never had certs either and I'm only an eight of what those guys are. I have also met lots of real sharp guys with certs and I respect the hell out of them, but people with certs and zero experience and attitude to boot. Man fuck that I wanna bring an AK (not Alaska think Kalishnakov) to work start paintball practicing.
I hate clueless tech's (see previous article) but I seriously hate clueless co-workers. Talk about killing the esprit-de-corps try watching a co-worker die on a call and then see your phone light up with a conference call and you jump into the "what do you mean the backup isn't all there" and what the fuck have you done with my server?"
Everyday the whole let's start our consulting company thing gets more and more attractive.
I think I'm going to do one of the following sometime in the near future:
- Start assasinating people all ninja style
- Start taking four hour lunches to avoid the suicidal tendencies
- Demand a raise and say to myself well the 20 bucks a paycheck is going to make a huge difference
- Start working remotely from home and claim some seriously infectious flesh eating bacteria is reducing me into an oompa lumpa
- Get a new job
It's not as bad as it sounds, I'm just venting.
This whole Service Pack 2 thing is killing the helpdesk. I don't know what's worse: eating crow for teaching people to do their windows updates religiously or telling people I'm sorry windows sp2 killed your application and we will have it fixed sometime in the near future.
Things are looking brighter especially the red ink on my bank account. Ever since my schedule at work got shifted to the late shift and my wonderful/beautiful domestic partner had to quit her job we have been bri-z-oke. She just started working again at the local hospital, in SICU of all places, and the money should start trickling back in but we are so far behind I considered selling bodily fluids (all of them).
If my job would put me out on the road I could really get back in the black much quicker and probably even reduce my stress level but I doubt they'd let me leave the office and end up reducing the available knowledge level.
something's got to give soon or I'm going postal.
More to come later. Does anyone even read my blog? Let me know.
Posted bleary eyed, and I'm all out of meds late on a Friday Night.
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