Don’t kick the dog, kick me!
I’m so frustrated with my job. Sometimes, especially when I feel like I’m putting 150% into my job, I’m getting -50% back. Because I’m one of two people that knows how certain things work around here technology wise, I work more and spent more time on getting the problems fixed because problems don’t go away, and our department doesn’t exactly grow in size. In fact, it seems to get smaller. I’m not the only one here that feels this way.
It’s frustrating. I was asked to research out a problem today that I had already exhausted my resources on. All fingers pointed to one individual to fix the problem. I was told not to dump this problem on this individual, so I went to seek help from other individuals. They all said “Ask IndividualIAmNotSupposedToAsk” … nice. Nothing like being a ping pong ball. I think more time/effort is spent on politics then the actual issue. This has been such a problem lately. I’m so not down with drama, or the politics, I just want to do my job and make technology work. I like technology, but it’s only nice when it works, ya know? That’s my job. I fix things. Being completely frustrated with that I set that problem aside.
Then I get a call. It was one of those arrogant men who thinks all woman are secretaries if they are in IT, because they just aren’t smart enough to “actually” be in IT. I just love those types, you know, they talk to you like they are leaving a message on an answering machine. Anyway, this guy was telling me about a server of his, and why it wasn’t working. It’s a Linux box, right? He was getting the error message “Boot device not found” .. he wanted to know what to change in the BIOS because he thought it was a hard drive problem. I wanted to make sure the hard drive was getting power and he says he was positive that that CDROM was. Caught off guard, I asked him to tell me what he tried. With a snooty tone he says he threw the Windows XP Boot CD in the drive and was able to install Windows.
:: head desk ::
When I was silent (more so in shock) he told me, he has Degree’s and he knows what he’s doing.
I’m so ready to go home.
