Lisa,
I'm constantly battling the political mindset.
--If you have gone to your boss in good faith (you
have documented this),
--Your boss has refused to take action (you have
documented this),
--And you know you are correct (you have documented
this)
(get the theme here?)
There should be an escalation procedure available to
employees either in your Employee Handbook or through
your HR department. If not, then you should be able
to gather your documentation, and make a presentation
to your boss's boss/whoever. "Peeing in somebody
else's sandbox" should not get in the way of
profitability or sustainability of the business. If
damagement doesn't recognize this at some level, then
that company is in trouble.
If the "corporate culture" forbids this sort of
employee empowerment - you are smart and capable -
look for a better position while keeping your head
down.
Good Luck,
Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
- "Koivu, Lisa" <lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com> wrote:
> Happy Friday everyone....
>
> I've gone from a fast paced environment (small
> company), to an extremely
> fast paced environment (dot-com) , to my current
> employer (large company)
> that is so bogged down in politics that nothing is
> done 'right'. Even the
> tapes aren't switched for the backups on a regular
> basis - it's so bad that
> the operators will pop a tape out and push it right
> back in, and there's no
> protection on the backup files. In other words,
> backups may or may not
> work.
>
> I am not the one responsible for the db I am
> referring to above. The person
> who is claims that there's nothing much he can do
> other than complain to his
> boss, who complains to someone else (in another
> state) and suppossedly
> "comes down" on the operators. This has been going
> on for months and
> months. So as we were talking, he says to me, What
> would you do? Play the
> game, try to slowly change the system, or buck it?
> Well, since he's been
> taking the route of slow change, I said BUCK IT. I
> gave him three
> alternatives and even suggested either 1.
> quantifying the loss of one day's
> worth of data, or even being down for 10 minutes, or
> 2. flying out there and
> meeting the operators/their manager face to face and
> explain what the impact
> is, or do both. He said #2 would be viewed as going
> around his boss (well,
> don't do it without talking to your boss first, you
> clown). I also said,
> What's your #1 priority? He said, Keep my job. I
> said, yes, but a dba's
> job is to always be able to recover, dude, you know
> that!
>
> There's a lot more than this situation above that is
> stuck in a political
> game. Most notably, funds for the project I am
> suppossed to work on -
> coincidentally, we have no hardware.
>
> I may be blowing off steam here, and if that's what
> you think I am sorry.
> However I'd be interested in what angle you would
> take. I am NOT a
> politician - I am very candid and frank. I am no
> buttkisser. This is gonna
> be difficult and I honestly don't know if I want to
> stick around for this.
> How many of you have been in this type of situation?
>
> Thanks
>
> > Lisa Koivu
> > Oracle DataBORED Administrator
> > 954-935-4117
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