Comments on: Sysadmins and Egos: Great in pairs! http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/sysadmins-and-egos-great-in-pairs/ A blog for IT Admins who do everything by an IT Admin who does everything Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/sysadmins-and-egos-great-in-pairs/comment-page-1/#comment-3489 Chris Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:25:03 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/sysadmins-and-egos-great-in-pairs/#comment-3489 Great article. I also work in a situation where my opinion is relied on heavily. I do, however, let the upper management deal with it. Why? Because I don't want the users to be difficult with me. I find I work in a company where the users are often petty if you confront them. A couple weeks ago, there was an issue with excessive bandwidth at all our locations. As it turns out, some people were sharing some questionable material across email, etc. I let my boss know the problem and that I was looking into it. He said he wanted the cause found and he would deal sternly with the culprits...as it turned out, I found out it was other management types doing it...so of course my boss sort of brushed it aside and said "well, keep an eye on the problem in case it gets worse." Looks as though the boss didn't want to confront these people about it because it was not worth it in the end. Great article. I also work in a situation where my opinion is relied on heavily. I do, however, let the upper management deal with it. Why? Because I don’t want the users to be difficult with me. I find I work in a company where the users are often petty if you confront them.

A couple weeks ago, there was an issue with excessive bandwidth at all our locations. As it turns out, some people were sharing some questionable material across email, etc. I let my boss know the problem and that I was looking into it. He said he wanted the cause found and he would deal sternly with the culprits…as it turned out, I found out it was other management types doing it…so of course my boss sort of brushed it aside and said “well, keep an eye on the problem in case it gets worse.”

Looks as though the boss didn’t want to confront these people about it because it was not worth it in the end.

]]> By: therek http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/sysadmins-and-egos-great-in-pairs/comment-page-1/#comment-3476 therek Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:38:32 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/sysadmins-and-egos-great-in-pairs/#comment-3476 My favorite sentence: "We say jump, the servers say “how high”." :) My favorite sentence: “We say jump, the servers say “how high”.” :)

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