The time that you've been given to familiarize yourself with their environment is gone. You have found a tonne of inefficiencies and know exactly what you need to do to clean, automate, improve etc... BUT Now you have to start doing the work that 'the business', the part of the company that makes money, you find yourself taking short-cuts and applying the same types of band-aids. It is the curse of all IT professionals!
I just tested the MSN search engine. I searched for a string which resulted in 5 pages of hits. I clicked on the 'next' link (to browse the second page of results), and found the page empty. I repeated this with the same result two or three times before it worked as it should.
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The time that you've been given to familiarize yourself with their environment is gone. You have found a tonne of inefficiencies and know exactly what you need to do to clean, automate, improve etc...
BUT
Now you have to start doing the work that 'the business', the part of the company that makes money, you find yourself taking short-cuts and applying the same types of band-aids. It is the curse of all IT professionals!
I just tested the MSN search engine. I searched for a string which resulted in 5 pages of hits. I clicked on the 'next' link (to browse the second page of results), and found the page empty. I repeated this with the same result two or three times before it worked as it should.
It appears that there has been a lift on the 'blocking':
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From: myname
To: myname
Subject: Kyle, xxx has invited you to open a Google mail account