Re: Politics vs. What's Right - long, sorry

Empathy oh empathy! Buckets and buckets of empathy!

YOU candid and frank? No way!!! ;-))

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"Koivu, Lisa" wrote:

>
>
> Happy Friday everyone....
>
> I've gone from a fast paced environment (small company), to an
> extremely fast paced environment (dot-com) , to my current employer
> (large company) that is so bogged down in politics that nothing is
> done 'right'. Even the tapes aren't switched for the backups on a
> regular basis - it's so bad that the operators will pop a tape out and
> push it right back in, and there's no protection on the backup files.
> In other words, backups may or may not work.
>
> I am not the one responsible for the db I am referring to above. The
> person who is claims that there's nothing much he can do other than
> complain to his boss, who complains to someone else (in another state)
> and suppossedly "comes down" on the operators. This has been going on
> for months and months. So as we were talking, he says to me, What
> would you do? Play the game, try to slowly change the system, or buck
> it? Well, since he's been taking the route of slow change, I said
> BUCK IT. I gave him three alternatives and even suggested either 1.
> quantifying the loss of one day's worth of data, or even being down
> for 10 minutes, or 2. flying out there and meeting the operators/their
> manager face to face and explain what the impact is, or do both. He
> said #2 would be viewed as going around his boss (well, don't do it
> without talking to your boss first, you clown). I also said, What's
> your #1 priority? He said, Keep my job. I said, yes, but a dba's job
> is to always be able to recover, dude, you know that!
>
> There's a lot more than this situation above that is stuck in a
> political game. Most notably, funds for the project I am suppossed to
> work on - coincidentally, we have no hardware.
>
> I may be blowing off steam here, and if that's what you think I am
> sorry. However I'd be interested in what angle you would take. I am
> NOT a politician - I am very candid and frank. I am no buttkisser.
> This is gonna be difficult and I honestly don't know if I want to
> stick around for this. How many of you have been in this type of
> situation?
>
> Thanks
>
> Lisa Koivu
> Oracle DataBORED Administrator
> 954-935-4117

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