RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

[Kimberly Smith]

Title: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

I have had that same issue in the past but I don't have it here.  I find that

as long as you have your managements support and the development team

knows that then life will be much easier.  I am very lucky here in that I

have good management and a very well trained senior development team

to work with.  Not that there are never disagreements but comprise is the

name of the game.  You just got to be picky on what you let them think you are

compromising on:-)  I always have more issues with junior/intermediate

developers. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:20 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

"Hello Oracle Guru"

Now why is it that I get more respect on the Internet than I do in my workplace.  ??

How many of you have this problem?  It's like an ongoing fight with developers, they want carte blanche in the production database, and they do whatever they want EVEN THOUGH I tell them NO, let's do something different that won't affect production.  I go to the CTO because this is like the 3rd time this has happened, and he sends out a let's-be-sure-not-to-offend-anyone email.  But the developer(s) will go ahead and do what they want ANYWAY.  I'm waiting for the first user-mistake recovery to say STOP, I've had ENOUGH and this is how it's going to be, no ifs, ands or buts. 

My last job may have been a sweatshop, but at least people respected my authority.  Here, it's a free for all no matter what I do.  Even when I say, Dude, I own the database.  If there's a problem, I have to fix it.  Therefore I say what happens in production and what doesn' t happen in production. 

And yes, I am looking for another position.  I can only take this dba/developer/janitor role for so long.

I'M SO GLAD IT'S FRIDAY...  Bring on the Captain Morgan!  It's noon somewhere...

Lisa Rutland Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
Qode.com
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Suite G104
Fort Lauderdale, FL  33319

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