23 year old "IT Manager" placed in charge of the networky bits of a building renovation
My first tastes of power the likes of which I haven't known since.

Knowing how the company I worked for liked to play musical offices on a daily basis and converting every part of the building in every concievable way (any wall was very much a temporary arrangement) I ordered a MINIMUM (frequently more) of 2 structured cabling points PER WALL, in every room of the building including the toilets. And a modern telephone system that uses the same cable structure.

A little excessive and expensive but oh yes, give me that kind of power and I will be utilising it to make my life easier. That's basically what I do in positions of power, I'm a lazy sod. No more scrambling around running cables, finding spare switches, moving network sockets from place to place. Someone moves, "right, what socket number are you moving from and to" - down to the server room, move a couple of patch cables, done.

I now work elsewhere (5 years on) where I am much better paid but have been long beaten to that particular position. The IT Manager is my boss here and is of the type where if I want to so much as change a toner for someone he stops me on the way out of the door to check that I verified that it's empty (not low), where it's going, who asked for it etc etc. Doesn't trust me with a thing, kind of bad for self esteem but it pays the bills. I have no say in anything whatsoever (well sort of... I can make suggestions and have them shot down without a second's thought).

I'm probably in my more rightful place for the age now, to be fair.

(Lack of funnies etc, just to say I miss my little masterpiece. The networking here is far less organised or modern)
( Cloudane, Thu 8 Jul 2010, 15:27, Reply)