Agreed 110%. The last two positions I have moved on from were due to not holding back what I thought. I fully stand behind all of it and would do it all again. Call it bull-headedness or integrity or stupidity. Whatever it is, I am guilty of it. It is the only way I know to properly do the job and I have a very difficult time doing a job in any other way. If it isn't worth giving 100%, is it worth doing at all?
I refuse to willingly go down a path that is going to end up screwing me for doing it. If someone is telling me to do something that is in my mind completely wrong, they absolutely will hear it. If I still have to do it, I either will or I won't depending on how strongly I feel about it and how much fallout I think there would be. If I do it though and it goes pear shaped in the way I forecast later, the person who made me do it will not be allowed to forget the fact that I pointed it out ahead of time. It isn't about saying I am right and you are wrong as I don't care as much about that as making sure everything works well. It is to say, listen to me next time so we don't go through this again. My forecasting capability tends to be pretty decent but of course if it works out just fine, I have also received a chance to learn to listen better to someone else... Or possibly I scrambled and found other ways to protect against or lessen the effects of what I considered inevitable failure that I didn't think of the first time I had to work up a counter. Necessity is the mother of invention, you can get really creative if you don't want to be on the receiving end of a beating because something bad happened on your watch. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob MOIR Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books... > Bottom line - Mgmt needs to take ownership of the results of their > business decisions. Tall order. But necessary to some degree for an > IT Mgr to maintain their sanity. > > Warning: YMMV - Not recommended for everyone - May be hazardous to > job status. Well telling them is a hazard because they might fire you if they don't like what you're saying. Not telling them is a hazard because they won't understand they've set you an impossible task, and will fire you for failing. If I'm gonna run the risk of being executed either way, I'd rather get it for doing the right thing... rob List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
