Subj : Re: Kill 'em all; let god sort 'em out
To   : Atreyu
From : jack phlash
Date : Thu Oct 21 2021 16:12:35

on 21 Oct 2021, Atreyu said...
 
 At> See I never really worked in a "team" environment beyond what I
 At> mentioned earlier about working with one other tech and an IT manager...
 At> essentially just the three of us. I think I pondered about this before
 At> elsewhere in another net I think; the pros and cons of working in a
 At> small IT department versus a large one.

Yeah, and I can't speak *too much* to that because my current company is the
only time in my career I've worked as part of a large team who are all
ostensibly working on the same stuff. I say "ostensibly" because, well,
that's the rub. While we do collaborate on a lot of stuff (like I'm working
with a small team of people tonight on an upgrade that I had developed, 
documented, and trained them on, but they'll be executing) there is still a
ton of "silos" of a single person who is anything approaching a "SME" on a
certain technology or environment with no real backup. It seems like
resourcing is an issue pretty much anywhere you go. With larger companies,
it just seems to scale out. :/

 At> Something like that kindof happened around the latter part of my
 At> full-time tenure. Company owner thought it would be a good idea to hire
 At> a young guy fresh out of college and have him handle the company
 At> website, blogs, some basic mickey mouse tech stuff in-house.
 At> Unfortunately he was a total disaster and screwed up everything he
 At> touched. He didn't last longer than a few months before he left and
 At> basically he had the attitude that "we didn't train him properly".
 At> You're right... its a matter of perspective.

Ouch. Yeah, I mean, on one hand it's obvious that other people's accounts of
you or your work aren't completely accurate - no one can really know your
thought processes, every action you take, etc. so you've got to brush some of
that kind of criticism off. On the other hand, some people really do just
plain suck. :P We hired a new guy recently who has disappointed every time
I've asked him to do anything, even some of the simplest tasks. If that
wasn't bad enough, at the same time, he has some kind of compulsive need to
constantly spout off know-it-all (but usually actually obvious) bullshit.
Perhaps from his perspective he's being setup to fail similarly to the guy in
your anecdote, but I think more likely it was just a bad hire.

(On a side note, we're having a damn hard time hiring people nowadays. We're
opening a couple of remote satellite offices in other cities JUST to try to
widen the talent pool, and I hear it's like that everywhere. Weird.)

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