This is funny and all, but eerily possible. The thing that angers me is that it is sort of normal that “the boss” can behave like an angry 6 year old without being told off, it happens overseas too but I have the impression it’s a very American thing.
True, but…
There’s a couple of warning flags in that story - what’s with the “I spend my time making my boss’s life hell”? That doesn’t sound conducive to building a trusting relationship…
Then there’s how you work through a problem with someone, especially higher management. I’ve learned to not over share the details, because there’s this invisible force that commands them to give an opinion and butt in.
Just offer calm assurance that you know what it is going on and that you can fix it, and give them an estimate of how long it will take, but double it first. This will give you leeway in case of unexpected issues, and make you look good if you deliver faster.
One thing they’re good at though is getting you resources. If you need someone else to move, or something to get it fixed, be clear about that and they’ll start making phone calls and make it happen in no time.
who are you, so wise in the ways of corporate?
That noob thinks doubling the time estimate is enough. He’s like a little kid yet.
I had this sort of thing happen all the time at my last job. Eventually everyone just accepted that I was the one to ask. Then it backfired and they started assuming that i was the one to ask about everything. Then it double backfired and they started inviting me to meetings as a SME (subject matter expert)… about basically everything whether I knew much about them or not.
Me: -submits ticket- “our recycle bins don’t work anymore. What happened?”
IT: “we scripted them to disable every time you guys log in from now on.”
Me: “……why?”
IT: “don’t know, but you won’t be getting recycle bins back until the upgraded computers roll out.”
Me: “okay, when will that be?”
IT: “dunno. We have to do the entire company and we can only do about 4 a week.”
Me: “dude, set up a fucking FOG server, throw all the interns at hooking the new machines up to a cheap switch, and multicast out an image. Bang this out in a few weeks.”
IT: “nope, open source doesn’t have support so we don’t use it.”
Me: “and who is “supporting” you at a rate of 4 pcs a week?”
IT: “……is there anything else I can help you with?”
Me: “gave us back our recycle bins.”
IT: “no”
Fucking Christ these guys are dumb.
Yeah, a big part of my job is helping deploy thousands of systems with in one customer case a contractural commitment to be able to redeploy all 3,000 of their systems in 30 minutes…
But when it comes to my own system, I am mandated by company policy to let our IT handle it, who does it by hand from a USB stick… So when the time comes they want to reimage my system for whatever reason, II turn in my laptop for a few days, get it back and put my second m.2 disk back in to boot back into the OS I maintain after letting them do what they wanted to my alleged ‘primary’ OS.
Do things in recycle bin not get synced to the cloud/backed up?(edit: nope seems everything from breaking migration tool, ballooning profiles and overzealous compliance can be mitigated elsewhere). Hence doing so in the roll out? No idea otherwise or why they wouldn’t know. Sometimes we just get told to do things a certain way. Not IT anymore but currently work with engineers who try shortcutting triage queues (probably in an attempt to save everyone time, not maliciously) and we have to undo their assignment and triage it as laid out. Specifically we were told “people will try to tell you who to send internal requests to, ignore them”. Largely for accountability so tickets/requests don’t get dropped or breach SLA and also because it can break workflows. Locking out recycle bins without being able to provide a good reason is pretty wild though lmao.
They said they it’s a Citrix thing. They are getting rid of Citrix too, which is fine as it’s a pain in the ass, but moving to full PCs for remote workers tha don’t need them is a ridiculous waste of time and money, especially now. It’s just going to make things worse because supporting that won’t scale as cleanly.
And why this migration? It’s not like Citrix was a bad idea on the first place. It actually solves some real problems for us.
IT: “because we can’t remote into a Citrix box.” Me: “the fuck you cant.”
That’s what happens when you subcontract out your IT.
Would you believe we didn’t do that? They are just convinced that’s how this should go.
If only we had a word for a glass wall.
A window isn’t the same as a glass wall.
Winwall?? No that’s not it… glassdow? Oh winder!! The word for a glass wall is winder!!
Cause after all. You’re my windowwall.
Partition or glazing?
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This is glorious
“And then everyone clapped”
whilst
^ah, fuck. not that guy.^
