- Sep 18, 2012
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There are bad people in leadership positions in every company in the world. I'm interested to hear about yours.
My boss is a 65 year old cattle farmer who used to work in maintenance and, because he soldered a couple of circuit boards together back in the 80s, was deemed fit to be our CIO back in 1996. He has little-to-no understanding how virtualization, storage, network security, or enterprise networking works. Just this week he directed my team to create a way to "program" F1 (the function key), to click the mouse in specific places and enter some canned text into a field so doctors don't have to do it. This came down while we were in the middle of a UCS Firmware upgrade. He calls a meeting every Monday, Thursday, and Friday at 0800 to go over the same shit we talked about in the last meeting, and he is completely irrational. If you challenge his line of thinking, or even suggest that something doesn't work the way he thinks it does, he just gets mad (and red faced) and gives you the silent treatment.
Sigh,
It's Monday, and what a pain in the ass.
My boss is a 65 year old cattle farmer who used to work in maintenance and, because he soldered a couple of circuit boards together back in the 80s, was deemed fit to be our CIO back in 1996. He has little-to-no understanding how virtualization, storage, network security, or enterprise networking works. Just this week he directed my team to create a way to "program" F1 (the function key), to click the mouse in specific places and enter some canned text into a field so doctors don't have to do it. This came down while we were in the middle of a UCS Firmware upgrade. He calls a meeting every Monday, Thursday, and Friday at 0800 to go over the same shit we talked about in the last meeting, and he is completely irrational. If you challenge his line of thinking, or even suggest that something doesn't work the way he thinks it does, he just gets mad (and red faced) and gives you the silent treatment.
Sigh,
It's Monday, and what a pain in the ass.