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<blockquote data-quote="Giga Hertz" data-source="post: 34640" data-attributes="member: 306"><p>Well this was for a private school that was part of a larger group. So I was hired by the school for, essentially sysadmining, but the head office took care of the network and stuff. So initially it was fine, and I had a reasonable amount of leeway to get things done. When I hit a roadblock, I learned how to do things to get around it until I could get a more diplomatic resolution. Fortunately this was also an attitude shared by most staff who weren't (and probably still aren't) happy with the head office.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately as time went on, they took more control and restricted less access. Initially the department was okay, but the manager was replaced by this guy who has absolutely no idea what he's doing and kept treading on toes. They'd also make a lot of decisions or just say "we're doing this" without talking to, or giving a heads up to any IT staff at any of the schools. When the principal who hired me left, I started looking for a new job as she seemed more concerned with doing things in line with what they wanted, and also said "we're doing this" without asking my input. Fortunately my brother-in-law is IT manager at a large company and they had an opening, so I applied (through official channels, of course, not nepotism).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My old job was very IT Crowd-y in that regard. I have okay people-skills, but it did boil down to "Reboot then call me back". I was also the only IT person at that particular site. My new job is far more interesting since it's in an agricultural company, so we deal with a lot of different sites, programs and setups. I have a lot more freedom and can do far more interesting things. The schools were Google based, and I was't allowed access to the Admin Console (I was allowed basic access at one point, but then a lot of silly changes and politics happened), but here it's Microsoft so I'm learning a lot of things about Azure, and on some great projects.</p><p></p><p>I probably could have just faded at my job for a few more years (I was there 6) and it wouldn't have been so bad, but I definitely would have fallen way behind - I can certainly experiment with Server and networking stuff on my own time, but not getting a foot in the door with Azure would have been a career killer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Giga Hertz, post: 34640, member: 306"] Well this was for a private school that was part of a larger group. So I was hired by the school for, essentially sysadmining, but the head office took care of the network and stuff. So initially it was fine, and I had a reasonable amount of leeway to get things done. When I hit a roadblock, I learned how to do things to get around it until I could get a more diplomatic resolution. Fortunately this was also an attitude shared by most staff who weren't (and probably still aren't) happy with the head office. Unfortunately as time went on, they took more control and restricted less access. Initially the department was okay, but the manager was replaced by this guy who has absolutely no idea what he's doing and kept treading on toes. They'd also make a lot of decisions or just say "we're doing this" without talking to, or giving a heads up to any IT staff at any of the schools. When the principal who hired me left, I started looking for a new job as she seemed more concerned with doing things in line with what they wanted, and also said "we're doing this" without asking my input. Fortunately my brother-in-law is IT manager at a large company and they had an opening, so I applied (through official channels, of course, not nepotism). My old job was very IT Crowd-y in that regard. I have okay people-skills, but it did boil down to "Reboot then call me back". I was also the only IT person at that particular site. My new job is far more interesting since it's in an agricultural company, so we deal with a lot of different sites, programs and setups. I have a lot more freedom and can do far more interesting things. The schools were Google based, and I was't allowed access to the Admin Console (I was allowed basic access at one point, but then a lot of silly changes and politics happened), but here it's Microsoft so I'm learning a lot of things about Azure, and on some great projects. I probably could have just faded at my job for a few more years (I was there 6) and it wouldn't have been so bad, but I definitely would have fallen way behind - I can certainly experiment with Server and networking stuff on my own time, but not getting a foot in the door with Azure would have been a career killer. [/QUOTE]
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