What Are You Doing Right Now
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@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm back.
Good, we needed a warning.
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10% of all SW posts are something like "how would you deal with this situation" and it is always someone asking something that sounds semi-reasonable until you dig into it and realize that every answer is the same: "find the person in charge, let them know of the issue, do your job as directed." Essentially every SMB IT "how do I deal with this" question I see comes down to the same issue of an IT employee not liking a situation or event, trying to take ownership of something they are not responsible for and trying to figure out how to deal with it when, the real issue is, they are overstepping their bounds and are not letting the chain of command make decisions.
This is just basic employment. What is it about SMB IT that makes people feel like the chain of command is no longer applicable?
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It's like 10% of all of the posts come down to saying "act like a reasonable employee". Do other fields have this problem so often?
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Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Hiding in the dark...
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Fighting a cold that hit me last night......
Sore throat and runny nose, minor aches and panes.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Hiding in the dark...
With my eyes closed
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Hiding in the dark...
It is always dark down there on the bottom of the world in the shadows, right?
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That's why Australia has so much desert, no rain because it is blocked by the norther hemisphere. It's in the rain shadow of the globe
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@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
Does it matter? It's not IT's place to take over management if they don't like the decisions. Inform management, be available to consult, of course. But all employees feel that management is doing things wrong, but only IT takes this tact of trying to take over and work around so commonly.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Just got to work at a quarter of 6, and I brought in donuts. We're adding some Cisco 4500s and changing the network so that the core isn't reliant on a single, old 6509 an the new design will have redundancy from the firewall throughout.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Just got to work at a quarter of 6, and I brought in donuts. We're adding some Cisco 4500s and changing the network so that the core isn't reliant on a single, old 6509 an the new design will have redundancy from the firewall throughout.
We'd have to do that work between the hours of 1 AM and 1:15AM.... can't have downtime!
Part of that was sarcastic...
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Just got to work at a quarter of 6, and I brought in donuts. We're adding some Cisco 4500s and changing the network so that the core isn't reliant on a single, old 6509 an the new design will have redundancy from the firewall throughout.
We'd have to do that work between the hours of 1 AM and 1:15AM.... can't have downtime!
Part of that was sarcastic...
I completely agree, but the business made the decision on the time. I wanted to do it at 10pm or so. Instead, we're kicking off at 6:30 for some of the servers and 7 for the network, with an anticipated finish 90 minutes later.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.
Hiding in the dark...
It is always dark down there on the bottom of the world in the shadows, right?
Nah, just a Pink Panther reference
However, in Antarctica it's dark for 6 months of the year and that's the next land mass south. -
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's why Australia has so much desert, no rain because it is blocked by the norther hemisphere. It's in the rain shadow of the globe
Not the last three days. We've had huge amounts of summer rain. Flooded classrooms & roads, the river is flowing better than in winter and solid, consistent rain (the likes of which I haven't seen in over a decade).
Over here in the west, we get a lot less rain than the east coast, but this year we seem to have swapped summers. We have their rain and they have our heat waves... SUCKERS!
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Thinking what IP range to give stuff we put in the Datacentre as part of the MPLS.
Was going to but Zabbix, Unifi, RADIUS, OSTickets, ScreenConnect etc all in there. On a Dell Server running XenServer.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
Does it matter? It's not IT's place to take over management if they don't like the decisions. Inform management, be available to consult, of course. But all employees feel that management is doing things wrong, but only IT takes this tact of trying to take over and work around so commonly.
oh - well I see people working around management's request/requirements all the time - so I don't think it's limited to only IT. Perhaps it's that IT persons just like to complain about it more - or (and who know why) feel that their opinion should have more weight that other people think their's should. I.E. Suzy in IT feels that since no one else in the company really understands IT, so what she says should go. Suzy will come to forums and ask for advice on how to get their way.
Meanwhile Bob a receptionist, just does whatever he wants regardless of what he's told, but doesn't have a place online of like minded individuals to rant about it.I'm grasping sure, but perhaps you see where I'm going.. perhaps I'm just crazy.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller is it possible that SMB IT feel that their management doesn't know squat about IT yet they are making decisions that to the IT person just seem wrong.
Does it matter? It's not IT's place to take over management if they don't like the decisions. Inform management, be available to consult, of course. But all employees feel that management is doing things wrong, but only IT takes this tact of trying to take over and work around so commonly.
oh - well I see people working around management's request/requirements all the time - so I don't think it's limited to only IT. Perhaps it's that IT persons just like to complain about it more - or (and who know why) feel that their opinion should have more weight that other people think their's should. I.E. Suzy in IT feels that since no one else in the company really understands IT, so what she says should go. Suzy will come to forums and ask for advice on how to get their way.
Meanwhile Bob a receptionist, just does whatever he wants regardless of what he's told, but doesn't have a place online of like minded individuals to rant about it.I'm grasping sure, but perhaps you see where I'm going.. perhaps I'm just crazy.
How often do you see a receptionist get told what to do and directly disobey and convey to someone that they know better and care more than the person paying them about what the company needs (not what they need, but the company) and try to "take ownership" against the management's will? It must happen, but I feel like it is very rare. I'm not talking about the way he greets someone on the phone, I'm talking about deciding to override the business' contracts or changing vendors or refusing to let people in the door or similar.
