Work update...
OK, the reason for my cynical post with the meme...
It is very difficult for me at work. I have a very broad range of IT knowledge and I am often called upon to help others wit things.
However, when I take the initiative to do something, I get my hand slapped for "oveer-stepping my bounds".
Latest example:
First some back story for those that do not know. We have a good sized student population and two years ago the students voted for the imposition of a tech fee. What this means for IT is that now most every student on campus gets an accout, not just the ones in computer classes that pay a lab fee. Then, this year, the tech fee committee and the administration decided that all students, not just the enhanced ones (ones in computer classes) should have e-mail. Howeverr, our system at the time could not handle it. We expanded the system, but it is still not 100% efficient. I talked with our Network Supervisor and offered to do a Proof of Concept with Linux and Postfix instead of Groupwise on Netware. She told me verbally to go ahead.
Jump ahead about a month. We have been without a director or dedicated VP for quite some time. We just got a ew one a couple weeks ago. During a meeting between our new director, my boss and the network supervisor to discuss projects, my boss brought up the PoC, to which the Network Supervisor claimed she said no such thing.
Now, we go back to last summer. The library came to us (IT) asking for the installation and configuration of a authentication proxy. I was the one tasked with this job. After working on it as a test, installed on the campus wweb server, I determined that the level of access needed to maintain this was higher than we want to give to non-IT personnel. So, the library guy and I discussed it. They bought a server and we were going to run Linux (SuSE 10 Pro is what I had) instead of Windows.
I spec'd out a machine and they bought it. The machine arrived and then I installed SuSE 10 Pro on it. Then one of our network guys ask why there was no RAID controller to his boss. She then started having a hissy fit because it was "non-standard" hardware and a "non-standard" OS. I admitted that I screwed up when I didn't order the RAID on there. I thought I had. She feels, as we are licensed for Novell servers, that we should install Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 on there instead of SuSE 10.0 Pro. I told her that was a step backwards, but she went to the Novell site and they state that SLES is for businesses looking for solid systems.
Now I find out that our new director has asked one of our network guys to do a project timeline with this as an example for the others in the department. He (network guy) then came to me to say we should do this together. I told my boss that if this is the way they are going to play it, then I want no part of it. I am not going to help them with the serverr setup as that is apparently not my job. However, it'll likely end up as a Windows box as I am the largest repository of Linux knowledge in the department.
We'll see what happens.
It is very difficult for me at work. I have a very broad range of IT knowledge and I am often called upon to help others wit things.
However, when I take the initiative to do something, I get my hand slapped for "oveer-stepping my bounds".
Latest example:
First some back story for those that do not know. We have a good sized student population and two years ago the students voted for the imposition of a tech fee. What this means for IT is that now most every student on campus gets an accout, not just the ones in computer classes that pay a lab fee. Then, this year, the tech fee committee and the administration decided that all students, not just the enhanced ones (ones in computer classes) should have e-mail. Howeverr, our system at the time could not handle it. We expanded the system, but it is still not 100% efficient. I talked with our Network Supervisor and offered to do a Proof of Concept with Linux and Postfix instead of Groupwise on Netware. She told me verbally to go ahead.
Jump ahead about a month. We have been without a director or dedicated VP for quite some time. We just got a ew one a couple weeks ago. During a meeting between our new director, my boss and the network supervisor to discuss projects, my boss brought up the PoC, to which the Network Supervisor claimed she said no such thing.
Now, we go back to last summer. The library came to us (IT) asking for the installation and configuration of a authentication proxy. I was the one tasked with this job. After working on it as a test, installed on the campus wweb server, I determined that the level of access needed to maintain this was higher than we want to give to non-IT personnel. So, the library guy and I discussed it. They bought a server and we were going to run Linux (SuSE 10 Pro is what I had) instead of Windows.
I spec'd out a machine and they bought it. The machine arrived and then I installed SuSE 10 Pro on it. Then one of our network guys ask why there was no RAID controller to his boss. She then started having a hissy fit because it was "non-standard" hardware and a "non-standard" OS. I admitted that I screwed up when I didn't order the RAID on there. I thought I had. She feels, as we are licensed for Novell servers, that we should install Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 on there instead of SuSE 10.0 Pro. I told her that was a step backwards, but she went to the Novell site and they state that SLES is for businesses looking for solid systems.
Now I find out that our new director has asked one of our network guys to do a project timeline with this as an example for the others in the department. He (network guy) then came to me to say we should do this together. I told my boss that if this is the way they are going to play it, then I want no part of it. I am not going to help them with the serverr setup as that is apparently not my job. However, it'll likely end up as a Windows box as I am the largest repository of Linux knowledge in the department.
We'll see what happens.