I don’t know about where you come from, but where I am papers happens all teh time.
Just the other day I had takes place with papers. It was pretty roughs I tells you before.
I know a lots of people who have trouble with their grammar, isn’t it?
Damn you @Woodman and @moufassa. I nearly had an aneurysm over the grammar in those posts.
It’s a plot. You’re all out to get me. I know it.
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Out where? I’m inside right now.
Dear HR
Life will be so much better if you can check whether we have resources available (aka money) to purchase resources (aka laptops/desktops/software) for new resources (aka new people) BEFORE hiring them…
…now we are stuck with a couple of people doing diddly-squat because we have no resources (laptops etc) for them to use.
Resources (laptops) are available, but resources (software) are not available, and will only be available sometime in the future.
The mind boggles…
TL;DR : Company can afford new hires, but cannot afford purchases of laptops and software…
Dear $Finances
It works out cheaper to purchase a Volume Key than to purchase individual orifice software packages.
I am stuck with dozens of Orifice2013 software packages just because some bladdy idiot decided not to use VLK’s…
Wake up and smell the coffee!!!
kthanxbai
FWIW I went last month on a junior manager course.
One of the things I got taught was “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”…
…and I see lots of people (damagers including) who’s NOT planning properly. What’s the matter with you guys? You are wasting company money and resources by not planning properly. But what the hey, I’m probably a lone voice which is ignored quite easily.
At the moment I have stopped job hunting as it is almost December (silly season), but, rest assured, I will definitely proceed with seeking for another job when 2015 rolls around… after 10 years at the same firm.
Somebody else will get a loyal employee next year.
I’m saddened at the decline of planning…
…and it’s good to be back on this forum… Hello everybody.
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Welcome back!
Don’t stay away so long, next time.
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So you promote a long-time network engineer to supervisor of the daily IT operations, after finally figuring out that promoting someone within will work better than hiring outside? This after making a disastrous new supervisor hire that failed miserably? In one of the busiest offices of the firm?
And you let the best candidate for the position (a long-term Tier 2 person who was the right-hand man of the last good supervisor there) go because you couldn’t figure this out earlier? I think sound decision-making and good managing took a long-term sabbatical from this place.
Hah, a portion of the field well known for it’s high social IQ.
Why not just promote a card board cut out?
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You don’t need someone who knows how smooze as a supervisor. You need someone who knows what the hell is going on.
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In this case, it is indeed better to have someone who understands the systems. Unfortunately, the way our engineers work, they’re so focused on that one set of tasks that they have no clue about anything else. I remember one of our former server engineers knowing nothing about switches and where things connect on them.
I’m really hoping I’m wrong, though. That office needs a competent supervisor. Their Tier 2 guys are great, but they can only do so much without leadership.
Yeah, ad hoc groups are all well and good, but they do not do well for managing groups larger than them, or a bunch of issues happening at the same time. They are better suited for single-issue purposes, with a definite timeline and limited members.
You don’t need someone who thinks of people as complicated widgets. You need someone that understands how people respond to various stimulus with the ability to adjust as their people do.
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But people are complicated widgets.
Which is why I never want to be the boss of anyone.
“I hate PCs. I’d rather work on a Mac…”
Aren’t you cute.
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Refusing to answer a question as a teacher because you’ve answered it several times is respectable. Refusing to answer the question because you don’t want to put in the effort taking the time to answer is cause for a refund.
Offloading work on me isn’t going to do you favors, you know. I’m going to be out for 3 weeks soon and you already have a tough enough time handling a day on your own so I can just tell it will be absolutely horrible for you when the time comes. And guess what? I earned my vacation so I won’t be replying to any of your emails while I’m out. Good luck.
Why not just say you don’t know? Teachers can admit that you know.
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