RE: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Help!

(laughing so hard I'm choking!)

My deepest, most sincere sympathies on such a boring work place!

At 2/27/02, you wrote:

>wow ..
>now my place of work seems oh so normal !! kinda boring really ...
>
>Nelson Flores
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>-----Mensaje original-----
>De: Bellows, Bambi [<mailto:BBellows_at_usg.com>mailto:BBellows_at_usg.com]
>Enviado el: Miércoles, 27 de Febrero de 2002 15:29
>Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Asunto: RE: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Help!
>
>Both. I was a consultant to this pharmaceutical company at the time and I
>honestly liked the job that I was doing, so I stuck it out. After I got
>over the initial shock of having an insane boss, I found the whole thing
>amusing. Seems he didn't trust the data center with cables for some weird
>reason, and after the company relieved him of his post (OH so gently), his
>garage had something like $30K worth of cables in it. They didn't press
>charges. But, MAN, there were some stories.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:14 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>Hi Bambi,
>
> > I once had a manager who was a paranoid schizophrenic.
>BEEN THERE!
>
>A former boss from hell got very angry (there's a reason they call it "mad")
>because he tried to fire me and found out he couldn't. Even so, he liked
>having me around because he needed me. I hung in there because the company
>was paying for my masters degree at the time. Later, after I got the degree,
>I left for greener pastures within the company. In the exit interview my
>former boss accused me of abandonning him, congratulated me on my move, and
>literally wept at my departure. He confessed he had been trying to "get my
>goat" because he was a 20 year military man who managed by intimidation. But
>he respected me because I was never intimidated, always stood my ground,
>behaved as a gentleman, and served him faithfully (his words). Two years
>later I saw my former boss from hell on the 6 o'clock news being put into a
>police squad car and with yellow crime scene ribbons around his house. Turns
>out that while he was being laid off he said things which were interpreted
>as threats on the lives of certain managers. This was taken seriously and
>the police confiscated all his guns.
>
>I guess the lesson is that eventually the truth will come out. The decision
>remains with us as to whether to put up with the insanity or move on. Do you
>have a high insanity tolerance level or are you just a masochist?
>
>Steve Orr
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:23 AM
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>
>I once had a manager who was a paranoid schizophrenic. Very exciting, let
>me tell you. But, one thing he told me in a rather roundabout paranoid way
>is that the way you deal with crazy bosses who were out to get you is to
>make friends with other people at your boss' level in the organization,
>hopefully who report to the same person your boss does, and let them know in
>a laughing kind of way what your boss wants you to do. Never be
>confrontational or speak ill of your boss, because, of course, that will
>wind up biting you in the ass, too. But, that way, when your boss starts
>badmouthing you and blaming you for everything that goes wrong that was his
>fault, you'll be insulated from having anything bad happen to you as your
>friends will close ranks around you and stop your boss from making your life
>a living hell.
>
>And then he threw his coffee cup across the room, turned bright red and
>started shrieking about how the VP of R&D had always hated him. God, I
>loved that job. Many, *MANY* wonderful stories came out of that place.
>
>Anyway, I never thought to follow this advice, let alone share it, but, it
>sounds like, in this case, you have a crazy boss, and if you stick around,
>you're going to need a little safety.
>
>Of course, posting your resume isn't a bad approach either.
>
>HTH,
>Bambi.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:48 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>I've lost patience, my temper, and I'm about to quit a job because the IT
>manager has decreed that we will have "his" data warehouse running within
>24 hours, and we will use his design.
>
>1 - We are NOT to use any kind of views, not even materailzed views.
>2 - we are not to do any computations, summaries or rollups
>3 - we are to have everything in one table
>4 - "the" table name and column names will be meaningful to any clerk
>5 - we are not to "start" or "snowflake" designs. "That's just a bunch of
>high power talk."
>6 - all users will be trained to use MS Access to get at "their"
>data. (These are users that were just converted off from "green screen"
>teminals within the last 45-days, to Windows 98 with 64k RAM.)
>7 - We are not to just copy the legacy transactions.
>8 - We are to load into "an" Oracle table, all legacy transction data
>because "we don't want to limit how or what a user will look at"
>9 - It is not necessary to talk with the users to see what data they want
>to look at, or the atomic level. "They are smart enough to fighure this
>out on their own. We just need to provide them the data."
>10 - There shall be no long term maintenance required by "the" dw.
>
>Any ideas on how to deal with this situation?
>
>For tomorrow, I've done a CTAS from a materialized view that we created to
>support one departments known requirements.
>
>Don
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