From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 13:38:33 ARST
Me and my ex-business partner actually worked at a big mortgage company
where this stuff went on daily... they hired a clown making $140,000 to be
"The director of systems"
This expert needed me to show him how to use Symantec ghost to make an image
of a pc... that's about when I hit the road...
Corporate jobs exist to give the bottom feeders a place to eat... They don't
do much and they don't expect much in return.
All the real people get sick of it and start their own thing...
I worked 6 years in a corporate position, and I can tell you its all a game
of ass kissing, and "drinking buddies" like you mentioned helping each other
out...
Check out the site we made about our last full-time job
www.workergarten.com
it sums all your issues up pretty nicely...
Everytime someone asks me how to handle these job issues I hear the line
from "Scarface" the Bolivian drug lord asked Tony -
"I think you speak from the heart,
Montana. But I say to myself this Lopez, your boss... he had chivatos
(snitches) like that working for him. His judgment stinks. So I think to
myself...how many other mistakes has this Lopez guy made? How can I trust
his organization?"
Do you know what that means?
These problems exist because the top guy allows it... so ultimately you must
leave the job immediately... it's a bad place because its being ran by an
idiot at the top. Period!
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Morris
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 10:07 AM
To: 'Tien'; 'CCIE Lab'
Subject: RE: Problem at work
I don't know how large your company happens to be, but you may also choose
to talk with someone in HR in confidence about the problems you are having.
They may be able to find ways to quietly fix things.
Of course, sometimes that backfires and everyone knows what happened, so you
get to evaluate what the outcome may be! But I agree with the other
posters, if you don't like the place you are currently at, look for
something new!
Despite the downturn in economy and people out of jobs, I hear complaints
from recruiters all the time that they cannot find qualified people for all
the positions they do have! Spend time looking around!
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Tien
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 4:36 AM
To: CCIE Lab
Subject: OT: Problem at work
GS,
I have this problem at work, hopefully someone can give me some advice or
guidance before i make an decision.
Im a network engineer for a local ISP operation team, my manager oversee two
groups, one for internal IT desktop support and the other one is for ISP
operation which i am in.
Problem 1, the supervisor from IT team constantly step over and trying to do
our jobs. there's nothing I can do, since he and my manager are really
close. I got really upset one time when he(IT guy) was represented me for a
mpls project i am doing to our exec management meeting. When I questioned
his involvement, my manager told me he just helping us out. This is clear to
me, my role is just do the technical part and they will claims the credit.
Problem 2, I spent hours sometime day to fix up some of the mistakes my
senior engineer did. some of those mistake as silly as duplex mismatch. This
is a problem and my manager refused to address it, because they are
drinking buddy. :( What's worse is not only i have to take care of my own
projects, my manager is able to make me finish the senior guy's projects as
well.
I dont think i have much options left beside move on and find another job,
or comply with whatever thats going on and suck it up.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Tien
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