RE: backup plan for a campus [7:7052]

[McClendon Susan Contr AEDC/ACS]

Stephen,
   Your situation is very common. Especially with military contracts.  The
Colonel is never wrong, but YOU are, even if you were ordered to implement
his solution.  
   Average and mid-level personnel are usually not blamed by
insecure/immature management because "They were just doing their job" and
the implication is left unsaid that they were simply average employees -
next time an expert will be required, and management begins immediately to
hire an expert.  No one gets hurt here.  However, once the expert is brought
in, and the same situation reoccurs, they have to howl & point fingers. It's
the exceptional and talented who receive a level of professional and
personal abuse that doesn't belong in the work place, the military, or any
where else.  Somehow they see you as strong enough to take it, and assume
that your expert opinion if heard would damage them severely.  So they have
to take you out first. 
   Clients always seem to take advantage of companies who fail at client
management/relationships.  So leave these guys who wouldn't stand up for you
when the situation required it.  Remember they still look bad no matter how
much is blamed on you.  The client will go looking elsewhere, and may even
refuse to pay.  You should find another job.  It's a big wide world out
there.

- Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: backup plan for a campus [7:7052]


yes they did cut my budget.....yes i told them it was a bad idea ....and
yes they made me do it .....
all it took was a UPS brownout to show them i was right.....for my troubles 
.. i was blamed by the customer and shunned by my employer...

all in all a good days work......

steve (once buggered twice shy)


>From: "Carroll Kong" 
>Reply-To: "Carroll Kong" 
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: backup plan for a campus [7:7052]
>Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:56:28 -0400
>
>At 09:33 AM 6/4/01 -0400, Stephen Skinner wrote:
>
> >once apon a time there was a man who was given a spec to build a network
> >with full redundency.......the spec he put togother cost WAY to much and
> >need severly cutting down.......he told them not to do it but they 
>ordered
> >him to .........so he did it ....the network fell over and the company 
>sued
> >for designing a crap network .......who got the blame......the man with 
>his
> >NAME on the design doc.........
> >
> >
> >have fun
> >
> >steve
>
>1)  I am confused.  So, if the man who built the "over priced" network made
>a fully redundant network, and it still failed, did he not fail his job
>miserably?
>
>2)  Or did you mean, they cut his budget, and STILL told him to make the
>fully redundant network, despite his warnings?
>
>I am going to assume #2, since #1 does not make sense.
>
>
>
>-Carroll Kong
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