Just some background: About three years ago I left my old job having 7 years of service, 4 as network assistant, 3 as IT director, at a small network of only 400 users for a job at a local school district with a bit bigger network of 4500 computers, about 900 staff and around 7000 students. I took a paycut, but now only work 40 a week (I have a two month old baby girl) have a much shorter commute, a full pension and the ability to go back to school with 80% tuition reimbursement. (I currently have bachelors from Penn State in computer science.)
To make a long story short, I feel like I have stepped back in time. While our It budget is fairly large given our size at 1.8 million, I cannot believe the way the IT system operates. The network administrator installs things using a shotgun approach, buys hardware/software without any research, standardizes nothing and seems to make decisions on a whim and without any planning. A good example is rolling out kasperky enterprise to the network without any testing one afternoon- Some serious problem occurred lets just say that...
Anyway my real issue occured when I took a look at our microsoft license and noticed we pay a yearly site license of about 200k. Something seemed odd as that is a lot of money for the amount of software we have. I emailed our rep and was shocked to learn we basically had access to all microsoft software with our yearly agreement. i.e. we did not need to buy 600 additional visual studio licenses, we had already bought them as we pay for them with our site license, we didn't have to buy a backup software for exchange we already had it with Data Protection Manager 2007 in the site license... you get the picture- the list goes on and on and on and on. I did a quick calculation and over the past four or so years I estimate we blew over 400k for stuff we already recieved with the MS agreement... So thinking I was helping out I go to him and bring it to his attention. Note I did not confront him and say, gee you moron you blew a lot of money. i simply said hey this site license allows us to use a lot of stuff that would make our life easier like SCCM, etc... (yeah basically all installs are done BY FRIGGING HAND, we could use group policy, but its fubared and not applying properly, a real mess)
He FLIPS out, has a hissy fit and now is riding my ass hard. This had been about a week now and i am considering finding new employment.
Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this situation, or deal with a completely incompetent boss?
thanks,
To make a long story short, I feel like I have stepped back in time. While our It budget is fairly large given our size at 1.8 million, I cannot believe the way the IT system operates. The network administrator installs things using a shotgun approach, buys hardware/software without any research, standardizes nothing and seems to make decisions on a whim and without any planning. A good example is rolling out kasperky enterprise to the network without any testing one afternoon- Some serious problem occurred lets just say that...
Anyway my real issue occured when I took a look at our microsoft license and noticed we pay a yearly site license of about 200k. Something seemed odd as that is a lot of money for the amount of software we have. I emailed our rep and was shocked to learn we basically had access to all microsoft software with our yearly agreement. i.e. we did not need to buy 600 additional visual studio licenses, we had already bought them as we pay for them with our site license, we didn't have to buy a backup software for exchange we already had it with Data Protection Manager 2007 in the site license... you get the picture- the list goes on and on and on and on. I did a quick calculation and over the past four or so years I estimate we blew over 400k for stuff we already recieved with the MS agreement... So thinking I was helping out I go to him and bring it to his attention. Note I did not confront him and say, gee you moron you blew a lot of money. i simply said hey this site license allows us to use a lot of stuff that would make our life easier like SCCM, etc... (yeah basically all installs are done BY FRIGGING HAND, we could use group policy, but its fubared and not applying properly, a real mess)
He FLIPS out, has a hissy fit and now is riding my ass hard. This had been about a week now and i am considering finding new employment.
Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this situation, or deal with a completely incompetent boss?
thanks,