Good points. I was quite cognizant of not using Facebook and the like. This 
while this list has (I believe) publicly searchable archives, it's far less 
likely to be picked up than from a social networking site. I doubt they think 
I'm disgruntled (and I'm not too much, because overall this is an amazing place 
to work), I'll just start hitting the ball farther out of the park.

Jim thanks for your insight as well!

And today, time to flip the switch on outsourcing Exchange for 450 users - of 
which I was center point at managing the project and coordinating with 
management  and other teams and selecting the vendor and again also doing the 
work for the actual flip as well.

Next week: Outsource OCS. Next month: Move SharePoint from in-house to 
outsourced. I cannot say I'm not challenged here...

Dave

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 11:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Morale killer...

The interesting catch-22 is that if you start proposing broad, strategic 
proposals, you often get told that you don't understand the full picture, and 
to just stick what what you were hired to do.

My advice to David is to vent (offsite) for a little, then suck it up and do 
two things simultaneously:

 *   Start making a few broad, corporate proposals that have a clear impact on 
revenue or the bottom line
 *   Start looking at what the market might be able to offer you elsewhere

Oh, and thank your manager's manager for the feedback in an email and in person.

Whatever you do, do not disengage and retreat to a corner, as there will likely 
be some increased scrutiny of your activities for the next few weeks until they 
are comfortable that you are not disgruntled.

I wouldn't have posted what you just posted via a corporate email.  That's what 
webmail over HTTPS is for.



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