Re: Need Advice -- What would you do?

In a previous article, gnat_at_u.washington.edu (L Boyd) says:

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>Of course I know that the life of a programmer is fraught with
>ups and downs, but this is ridiculous!
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>I was a *c* programmer when all this started, and I can
>use the oci libraries in an oop, etc. I am enormously
>proud of the work that I have done: trouble is that
>I don't have enough time to do the work properly, and it
>seems like I am always struggling up a learning curve,
>hoping it will be the last.
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>I am frustrated and working at full-throttle, but cannot see
>how this will work: I am supposed to be gui-developer, sysadmin,
>dba and db developer. I *want* to finish and get out a good
>product, but I don't see how anything short of disaster can
>happen.
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>What would you do? If I stay and manage to pull it off, it'll
>be a big feather in my cap, but if it fails, it'll hurt me
>professionally.
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>I have asked repeatedly if we couldn't use a gui tool for the
>development, and he has poo-poohed the idea.
>
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
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>Lauren
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I just quit a similar situation and got a new job. With your experience that shouldn't be a problem. The job of a manager is to provide his/her employee's with the tools to do their job. You manager has failed in this, don't enable his/her incompetence by staying.

"In any organization, people tend to rise to the level of their incompetence."

• paraphrase of the Peter Principle

Good luck!

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