I was going to write a lengthy novel about this, but I might lose my job soon so I'll post and be as brief as possible. Why you might ask? Because the management are a bunch of clowns. They are too cheap to buy stuff that is needed, as a result stuff keeps breaking down. They did agree to allow me to upgrade all the computers to xp a few months back. So I began to do that. I realized that it's like pulling teeth trying to actually get them to sign the PO's needed to make the actual purchases, so instead, I start installing Windows 2000 with the licenses that I have in order to get the job done. They find out, think that I have "changed the plan" without telling them,.. get concerned that AutoCAD 2005 will not be compatible once it's time to roll it out, and then tell me that they will be talking with me later on today about it. I still have not been talked to, but it's just a matter of time. Who knows,.. maybe they just want more info about why I have installed 2K instead of xp. Maybe they will fire me. Not because my tech works sucks (when it actually shines,.. I have turned that place upside down from the crap heap it was before),.. but instead because I do not know how to work through the red tape properly. That is my biggest problem. I have done excellent tech work,.. but we will ignore that part of it and instead focus on how you are not playing our game properly. Instead of being just an IT tech,.. I have to be an IT tech who knows how to play this game and is able to adapt to the rule changes that happen everyday. In addition, I have to know how to go through 14,000 different managers to get anything done,.. answer to the employees who are screwed because their P3 900MHz Win98 computer keeps crashing when it tries to attach 20 5 mb email attachments while working on Autocad drawings directly from a server and get blamed for anything that goes wrong,.. especially stuff that goes wrong as a result of something somebody did 5 years ago. No,.. I am not exaggerating. On top of that, I get questioned on why I do the things I do. "This servers IDE hdd is not good enough,.. we need to purchase SCSI drives instead so that engineers can work on their projects". 27 emails later, back and forth, of me explaining the differences between SCSI and IDE to upper management -- and we still have a server that doesn't quite work right.
I friggin give freaking up. I do,.. I honestly give up. I don't know what else I need to learn,.. but obviously just being a tech isn't quite good enough anymore. There's this whole drama part that I'm supposed to be doing that I do not want to do.
