magnus369
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Currently-
This morning I finished updating a whole crap load of systems… no big whoop, finished about 9am. However, at another location tonight we had a system choke and die. So currently, since we just took over this location less than a week ago, I’m having to have my coworkers who are local to the area pick up spare hardware and do a good chunk of the physical work that I’d rather do myself. Yes, I’m a control freak. Unfortunately, I’ve also not been allowed network access to this location as yet either, which is making this even more nerve wracking as I keep having to talk these guys through it over the phone.
I’ve done this or similar to it so many times now that I feel like I could freaking talk someone through landing a damn plane. However, the anxiety and the frustration doesn’t get any better either.
Anyone else have this particular issue, or am I nuts?
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your just nuts
work from home?
no network access?
people doing the work for you?
seems like a holiday to me 
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If you are the boss, and have people working for you - learn to trust them. They WILL do a good job, if you selected them right in the first place. If you are micro managing, then they will just ease right off, and just do exactly what you tell them as doing anything else means that they will have to do it again anyway …
It will make your life easier, and their life more rewarding.
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DavidLW wrote:
If you are the boss, and have people working for you - learn to trust them. They WILL do a good job, if you selected them right in the first place. If you are micro managing, then they will just ease right off, and just do exactly what you tell them as doing anything else means that they will have to do it again anyway …
It will make your life easier, and their life more rewarding.
The hardest thing I’ve had to learn since becoming a manager is delegation - and I still have problems with it now. I occasionally slip into “Do it myself so I know it’s done right” mode but that pisses off my team (looks like I don’t trust them) and my boss (I’m not doing what he pays me to do)
Feel the same when Ive been at college just want to know whats going on and do stuff.
Only two days a week but still can’t wait to leave in a couple months to be full time.
magnus369
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Alex1318 wrote:
your just nuts
work from home?
no network access?
people doing the work for you?
seems like a holiday to me
Would seem that way… problem is, they’re more likely long range, remote controlled, voice actuated puppets…
DavidLW wrote:
If you are the boss, and have people working for you - learn to trust them. They WILL do a good job, if you selected them right in the first place. If you are micro managing, then they will just ease right off, and just do exactly what you tell them as doing anything else means that they will have to do it again anyway …
It will make your life easier, and their life more rewarding.
Wish I was the boss, then I’d have a better pay check… I’m the one everyone runs to when they can’t figure it out on their own.
The best part about working from home:
Not working.
Which is why I don’t do it, bc I know I wont get anything done.
magnus369
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FINALLY.
Server is up and running.
Users in at least 4 states and 2 countries are logging in…
and hopefully the server load isn’t going to stress the damn thing into breaking.
Magnus369 wrote:
Sounds like you need to learn to say “google it, I am doing something else that you don’t know how to do atm and can’t help you”
Magnus369 wrote:
translation: Fire me.
If your boss fires you for telling someone to Google a simple problem while you work on something more complex rather than hold their hand, he’s an idiot. Why even employ these other people if you have to do everything for them?
magnus369
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RealityCheque wrote:
In this case that I’m referencing in the topic is not an everyday thing. Plus it’s not my coworkers jobs to begin with, as both of whom wind up being more along the lines of customer support/sales, and neither are expected to handle this level of outtage on unfamiliar equipment, in an unknown location, without any documentation what so ever. It’s something that came up unexpectedly due to several people quitting their jobs at once. As I’m not physically anywhere near that location (I’m roughly 1500 miles away), I’m having to direct these people.
If I told them to just “google it as I’ve got better things to do”, then yes I would expect to be fired, just as much as I’d expect to fire anyone who said something like that to me.
What I’m bitching about is the fact that I know damn good and well I can do the job far faster in person, and due to it being an unplanned (read: system died unexpectedly), I wasn’t able to arrange travel to take care of it before hand.
And as I’ve also pointed out, I’m not the boss. The staff at the location we just got assigned to wasn’t even a location we were supposed to manage. We wound up with it because a group of paranoid people decided we were going to take their jobs and they decided to jump ship at the same time just to cause more headaches than firing them would. What’s really screwed up is that I have other projects to handle at the same time and wouldn’t have come anywhere near their crappy little fiefdom. So more than likely unless they continued to piss off upper management, they never would’ve even been considered for termination.
The only good thing that came from this was the fact that I didn’t wind up having to fire these people. And now that this happened, I don’t have to worry about them being hired back in a panicked re-hire. However, it does mean I get to document an unknown network, running god knows what software, with who knows what network connections. And until I wind up there in person, I’ve got to do so by proxy.
