Lupin

Seriously how do people do it?

I’ve just come from a 2hour meeting with the owner of the place, 2 of the other managers, the I.T. “Guru” who they were getting in to do all the work and me.

Basically the meeting was to discuss the building and roll out of the new server. We are currently on a windows NT server that is just about to crap its self. So the “guru” is looking at getting a new server to meet our needs and then some. Now I could clearly see that this guy is just there to fill his pockets with as much cash as he can, and this doesn’t really worry me, because it means that its going to be his ass on the line when it all goes wrong, and it will.

There were a couple of things that concerned me. One that he had not contacted out ISP to discuss swapping the mail over to an internal server and 2 that he said there is no way we can add wireless to the site.

There were a couple of other things in the meeting that didn’t quite jell like him saying that only he could so the setup of the server and the 20 or so workstations we have.
Then after the meeting why we were discussing something else, (the screwed over network layout) he then takes me aside and tells me, not to do too much work as the boss wont call him. WTF that’s the whole reason he’s paying me the extra $$$’s so he doesn’t have to call the guy.

Now I can’t wait to see the next meeting as the owner has told me that I am to do as much as I can without getting him involved.

Its got me fucked how some of you deal with all this kind of shit everyday.