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Lately I have had several people commit to do things at my workplace. They then don't follow through on what they said they would do and don't say anything when they don't follow through which really pisses me off. If you are not going to do something you committed to do at least have the common F$%# courtesy to tell me. I swear sometimes I think children work here. This is the thing these are different teams within IT. Don't even get me started about the Linux Team and not telling me about servers and then acting shocked the warranty is expired on the server. If you don't tell me about a physical server you deploy how am I supposeed to track the F$@% warranty? I refuse to go play hide and seek with servers.
Example#1 - Earlier this year we had a Server with it's warranty expiring on 7/20 of this year. I asked the team that uses the software running on the server what they wanted to do. They told me they would be migrated off the server by 7/20 to a virtual machine and I didn't need to extend the warranty on the physical server. I was reviewing warranties yesterday and find out the original server is still in production. Contacted the team's manager and inquired about status. The manager told me, well we decided to go a different direction so the software is going to stay on the server. I politely asked why he didn't inform me of this change in plans because now the server warranty is expired and the company will have to pay to extend the warranty on the server plus a re-instatement fee to Dell. (Dell might wave the fee but I didn't tell him this. I get a blank stare back.
Example#2- Same team server #2- This server is a virtual machine on cluster of servers at a remote DataCenter. Management decided to eliminate the virtual machine cluster at this remote DC. I am in charge of the project to shut the virtual machine cluster down. I create sub-projects for each VM that needs to be migrated. The same team manager from example #1 tells me the VM needs to stay in the DataCenter and do not migrate to the Data Center 20 miles away. Ok we need to get approval to buy hardware since the cluster is going away. I get a hand wave from the manager, whatever that means. I get approval to buy the hardware. Get the server racked cable, powered up and OS loaded. Hand the server over to the manager for his team to migrate the software. The server sits for 3 months. I inquire as to what is going on. This VM is now the last VM that is on this virtual machine cluster at this DataCenter. Oh we decided to go a different direction and we don't want to migrate at this time. Can you just migrate the VM to the cluster at the other DataCenter.
Good thing I get paid by the hour. :\
Example#1 - Earlier this year we had a Server with it's warranty expiring on 7/20 of this year. I asked the team that uses the software running on the server what they wanted to do. They told me they would be migrated off the server by 7/20 to a virtual machine and I didn't need to extend the warranty on the physical server. I was reviewing warranties yesterday and find out the original server is still in production. Contacted the team's manager and inquired about status. The manager told me, well we decided to go a different direction so the software is going to stay on the server. I politely asked why he didn't inform me of this change in plans because now the server warranty is expired and the company will have to pay to extend the warranty on the server plus a re-instatement fee to Dell. (Dell might wave the fee but I didn't tell him this. I get a blank stare back.
Example#2- Same team server #2- This server is a virtual machine on cluster of servers at a remote DataCenter. Management decided to eliminate the virtual machine cluster at this remote DC. I am in charge of the project to shut the virtual machine cluster down. I create sub-projects for each VM that needs to be migrated. The same team manager from example #1 tells me the VM needs to stay in the DataCenter and do not migrate to the Data Center 20 miles away. Ok we need to get approval to buy hardware since the cluster is going away. I get a hand wave from the manager, whatever that means. I get approval to buy the hardware. Get the server racked cable, powered up and OS loaded. Hand the server over to the manager for his team to migrate the software. The server sits for 3 months. I inquire as to what is going on. This VM is now the last VM that is on this virtual machine cluster at this DataCenter. Oh we decided to go a different direction and we don't want to migrate at this time. Can you just migrate the VM to the cluster at the other DataCenter.
Good thing I get paid by the hour. :\