Work annoyances.
I may not have posted this in a while, but I am at another position from the last time I talked about my job. No, I didn’t get fired, just moved and shuffled around. My new team lead drives me up the wall (doesn’t everybody’s?). Here is a conversation with one of my co-workers this morning:
Co-worker: Crack smoke action of the morning: <brand> servers have an httpd rpm installed. Why is that and what does it do?
Co-worker: After digging around I reported back that it was apache, and it’s serving client websites.
Dattas: … Who asked that?
Co-worker: Our team lead.
Dattas: You’ve got to be kidding
Co-worker: #CantMakeThisUp
Now a lot of managers aren’t supposed to be technical, they are supposed to manage. However this is a team lead, he is supposed to be the guy to go to when all else has failed. For those who didn’t know what httpd or apache was, that is fine, you are not a team lead for systems administrators in a large web hosting company. The problem is that most beginning level 1 techs here know what httpd is, and yet one of the highest ranking technical persons in the company doesn’t know? He has held back major advancements in our company because he “isn’t sure” or “it hasn’t been tested enough.” A lot of the time enhancements have to be done without him knowing and then after it has been working for months you can turn around and tell him that hey, we’ve increased server efficiency by 50% by making these changes. Another major problem with my new team lead is anger management. This guy blows his top at the smallest things. He has verbally abused most, if not all of the team. This isn’t even constructive yelling, this guy personally attacks people when he blows his top.
The manager above him is more of a network guy, he is a nice guy usually, but occasionally, like everybody else, he has his bad days. I don’t blame him for having his bad days, I blame him for saying stupid things that contribute to low morale in the company. While asking him some clarification questions after receiving some orders from him, he said:
When I ask something be done I don’t want questions back
I deeply hope that everybody reading this knows how completely backwards this is. Clarification requests only help improve people being able to do their jobs. I don’t ask questions because I know the answer, I ask questions to ensure that I do what they want me to do.
Anyway, I just needed to blow off some steam. I’m sure it can always be worse.
Tags: annoyances, Work