Office Rant
Mar. 6th, 2008 15:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeDear Secretary,
I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings about you when you walk in my office and say, "I'm bored." I'm not your playmate. I'm certainly not your boss insofar as I do not have the authority to assign you work to do. I'm a guy who likes a good drive-by but otherwise prefers to be left alone to work.
If I don't stop typing, and I don't make eye contact, and I don't reply, that's saying something. Listen to it.
My door is the thing whose job you are at this moment doing, which is, filling the doorway. Please pull it to as you leave so it can do its job.
- Wm
Dear Data Guy,
Can we make it an S.O.P. that when you wipe a customer's inventory data for a website I'm working on, you inform me? That way, the next time this happens, I won't spend three fucking hours trying to track down a bug that isn't a bug, merely an absence of data.
If you're going to be an asshat, do it to your own deadlines, not mine.
Thanks,
- Wm
p.s. Lift the ring when you piss. This isn't a dorm or a frat house. Have some fucking standards, mm-kay?
I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings about you when you walk in my office and say, "I'm bored." I'm not your playmate. I'm certainly not your boss insofar as I do not have the authority to assign you work to do. I'm a guy who likes a good drive-by but otherwise prefers to be left alone to work.
If I don't stop typing, and I don't make eye contact, and I don't reply, that's saying something. Listen to it.
My door is the thing whose job you are at this moment doing, which is, filling the doorway. Please pull it to as you leave so it can do its job.
- Wm
Dear Data Guy,
Can we make it an S.O.P. that when you wipe a customer's inventory data for a website I'm working on, you inform me? That way, the next time this happens, I won't spend three fucking hours trying to track down a bug that isn't a bug, merely an absence of data.
If you're going to be an asshat, do it to your own deadlines, not mine.
Thanks,
- Wm
p.s. Lift the ring when you piss. This isn't a dorm or a frat house. Have some fucking standards, mm-kay?
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Data Guys
Date: 2008-03-07 15:57 (UTC)Case in point - prime example:
I've shared this before...But it bears repeating
When our previous Data Guy changed the IP address of our main production server in the middle of a work day, then went to lunch. He also did not respond to his company provided work cell phone during lunch.
When he returned, he was actually surprised to find everyone in a dead panic and the phones ringing off the walls.
When the action he took was discovered to be the culprit, he was sincerely insulted when everyone in the company wanted to hang his genitals from the flagpole.
He had been coverting the system from IP address to DNS address and went ahead with changes without telling anybody.
In his words, "It should have worked", and therefore he sincerely and honestly felt it was NOT his fault when the entire facility screeched to a halt.
He was unsympathetic that everyone spent a frantic hour and a half (he took long lunches) trying to determine why the company completely and unexpectedly stopped, with not a shred of a clue to guide them to a solution.
As I mentioned, he didn't tell anybody he was doing this.
30 people wanted to flail him for his arrogance and incompetence, yet we were all somehow misguided and were picking on him.
yeah.
IT...um, err...Data Guys.