Words of Thunder
Something occured to me, a little bit ago. I was outside of my job, again here over 12 hrs....smoking a cigarette. I have a lot of work here, and they hired a guy, who is to help out, he is definately a Jr person, and the guy is pretty cool. I will call him J. Ok, so the first thing I had J do for me was work on the backups, and in a smooth way, unbenounced to me, I gave him the backup job. It was now his responsiblity to maintain the backups and make sure they were working.
However, I also left him in charge of was changing the tapes all the time. Every where else, its been a rotation. Then the light bulb popped upon my head and turned on. How much of a dick can I be?? Granted, we both are lucky where we have a large backup system to where it holds 8 tapes and only have to change them maybe once a week, whereas most places you have to change them every day. So, I thought about that and realized that I shouldn't have turned around and just dumped the job into his lap. Yes, that has happened to me in the past, getting the crappy job dumped on you because your new and inexperienced. Thats how I learned, however, changing the tapes, a monkey can do. However, if there is a problem, one night when he is changing the tapes, like tonight, I think he might have a little bit of a panic and call me, which is fine, but I want to save him the stress.
So, I sent him an email. Told him I was sorry for being a dick and he was more than welcome to continue to maintain the server, I dont mind that. But I also told him that we would do it in a weekly rotation, but to just send an email when the tapes need to be changed. So now, its 10:05 and Im still at work, dealing with a problem. The backup device is acting up, so I have to figure out what is wrong with that now.....How many times have I been here at 12am, leaving, and get no recognicion for it? But, in all honesty, its not about getting the recognicion, its about doing a job and doing it right. So, on that note, I leave you. To strike forth against the forces of evil, the gremlins of technology, to spread truth about bad backup devices!!
However, I also left him in charge of was changing the tapes all the time. Every where else, its been a rotation. Then the light bulb popped upon my head and turned on. How much of a dick can I be?? Granted, we both are lucky where we have a large backup system to where it holds 8 tapes and only have to change them maybe once a week, whereas most places you have to change them every day. So, I thought about that and realized that I shouldn't have turned around and just dumped the job into his lap. Yes, that has happened to me in the past, getting the crappy job dumped on you because your new and inexperienced. Thats how I learned, however, changing the tapes, a monkey can do. However, if there is a problem, one night when he is changing the tapes, like tonight, I think he might have a little bit of a panic and call me, which is fine, but I want to save him the stress.
So, I sent him an email. Told him I was sorry for being a dick and he was more than welcome to continue to maintain the server, I dont mind that. But I also told him that we would do it in a weekly rotation, but to just send an email when the tapes need to be changed. So now, its 10:05 and Im still at work, dealing with a problem. The backup device is acting up, so I have to figure out what is wrong with that now.....How many times have I been here at 12am, leaving, and get no recognicion for it? But, in all honesty, its not about getting the recognicion, its about doing a job and doing it right. So, on that note, I leave you. To strike forth against the forces of evil, the gremlins of technology, to spread truth about bad backup devices!!
posted by The Dog at 9:46 PM
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