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Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal?
R.Mason asks: "I work in an IT department for a small to medium sized family owned business. The job is great, except for our boss. He simply doesn't know nearly as much as he should. Our team finds ourselves teaching him or explaining remedial things far too often. Even when his own computer is acting up, he doesn't know what to do with it and has us fix it while he sits and watches. He spends hours and hours on the most insignificant tasks as if he has nothing better to do. Is it ignorant to believe an IT manager should be a knowledgeable in technology as a whole? A person you respect and frequently learn from? It creates an extremely frustrating work environment, and our team doesn't know how to approach the problem. It's becoming too much to simply "put up with it." What advice do those of you in the IT field have for this issue?"
yes, i've worked in 2 work places completely dominated by female managers, and by far i found them to be bigger dicks then men. women have a trait men tend to lack - cattyness. also for the poster - my advice is ot keep this baboon, he is gold. you can talk complete bullshit to him and he will eat it up, not knowing better. if you got someone who had a clue, then you won't be able to bullshit to him saying you have to reroute the encryption and hack the mainframe, and that it requires they buy you a new pc for home.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
We get this topic every now and then.
A few years ago it was a rant and attack how dumb managers and supervisors were.
Now we get posts asking and explaining what managers should be doing, and why actual skill in the task of the workers isn't as important as one might think.
Anyone want to take bets on how long till slashdot argues that a MBA is valuable, and CEO's are underpaid?
Our Technical Director is stuck in the world of DOS. Any windowing environment is the work of the devil. Multi-tasking OS are an overkill to him, but he reluctantly uses Windows for the Internet. He finally updated to boardband last year, having stated previously the Internet was just a fad, and dial-up was just as quick.
He is a C programmer, yet he didn't know what the IP protocol was until 4 years ago. He doesn't know what an SQL server is, or what Telnet and ssh is. He discovered VNC just last week, but that was only because he was under pressure to use it.
We ran out of ports on our office Switch, so we ordered up another one to link to the existing switch. When he found out what we had done, he told us to run the two Switches as independent networks, because linking them together was 'over complicated'.
You guys are socially retarded. No girl want's to see what you did. try getting some real pussy andstep away from the computer. You all have good jobs. Find a girl you like, shut the fuck up about your geek life, take that extra day off and spend it with her. Don't know how to get her? DDidn't think so. Buy her some flowers or jewelry. don't act like an ass and demand something back in return for the gift. Then again shut the fuck up about yourself and your geek world and ask about hers. Listen. This is a geeks only chance at getting laid. Oh and eat the pussy!