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So incredibly angry at work
Topic Started: Apr 29 2008, 12:54 PM (592 Views)
Aqua Letifer
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dolmansaxlil
Apr 29 2008, 12:54 PM
Last year, my principal and I had a conversation about the school website, and I drew up a proposal for creating a new site that would be easily updated by teachers and thus, more useful to parents. My principal loved the idea. We called the IT department, and asked if they had the technical requirements on our servers in order to handle a content management system. They did not. So we asked if we could go with an external hosting company. The person we spoke to said we could. So we got our own webhost, and I volunteered to build the site. Some of you may remember me spending about a week last summer getting it up and running.

We were officially told we had to take it down today because we're not allowed to use an external host. We have to move back to the board servers. We have to use FrontPage or DreamWeaver to update the site.

In short, it'll go back to being a static page that teachers can't update.

I'm so incredibly angry. First, because we asked for permission and it was granted. Apparently, we didn't ask the right people - but then shouldn't the person in IT have forwarded our request TO the right people? Secondly, I spent a week of my time, plus time over this school year, getting the site up and running and keeping it updated. Third, I've gotten a lot of compliments from parents on how great it is to have an updated site that is actually useful to them. Fourth, I've had other principals approach me to ask if I'd do their site because they think it's so great. And finally, I was asked by school board personel to HELP the person who got hired to redesign the board website because what I was doing was being held up as a model of what a website can and should do.

I'm just frothing at the mouth mad.

I emailed my principal, who forwarded me the order, and very calmly stated my reasons for being so disappointed.

I have a feeling a request will come that I manage the website next year using the antiquated system they want us to use, and my response is going to be to tell them they can piss off. Nicer than that, obviously.

I'm sorry, dol. :(
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Jolly
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Piano*Dad
Apr 30 2008, 05:08 AM
JoeB
Apr 30 2008, 01:27 AM

The real issue is you made the IT guy look like an idiot and it's payback time.  The fact that he (they) is (are) idiot(s) is irrelevant.

To quote Jolly:



:yes:

As some of you may be aware, at one time my son's major was in a healthcare field. He was in his senior year of college, halfway through clinicals, when he was involved in a situation that made the head of his department look like an incompetent ninny (even though the gentleman was).

He was thrown out of the program. Oh, not with a "here's the door", but with a much more subtle approach...placing him in an impossible clinical situation, refusing to move him upon request, and making assuring noises an entire semester, while steadily digging a hole for him behind the scenes he could not dig out of.

He learned some very hard lessons, but I guess that's what life is about. He learned to get things in writing. He learned the importance of electronic and paper trails. And he learned, unless something is particularly egregious or unlawful, to not make a person with authority over you look like an idiot, especially when you have a Galahad complex and were doing so for someone else.

The person who whacked him was very good, and lawyer-proofed my son's exit. My son's daddy also knows a few people, and we solved a small budget problem at the university by cutting some money, and increasing the work load on a few folks, one of which was an older gentleman who felt he could no longer handle the stress.

The moral of the story is that sometimes it is wise to let things go, and win the war, instead of focusing on a single battle.
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Indded. Want to learn the ways of treachery? Work in a hospital or a university. Corporate America is a bunch of pikers by comparison.
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Mikhailoh
Apr 30 2008, 07:10 AM
Indded. Want to learn the ways of treachery? Work in a hospital or a university. Corporate America is a bunch of pikers by comparison.

Ayup. You couldn't make up the crap that goes on in either.
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Well, I talked to my principal this morning. He said, "I'm ignoring the email. Leave the site up. We are going to expand it next year."

"You do know that someday I may like a job at the board office, right?"

"Don't worry - I'm keeping your name out of it. They think I'm just being...well, the way I always am."

Alright then.

On top of that, my old principal emailed me today. He heard about the issues (he's the one who okayed this last year, and who got the permission from the board office to do it...which they've now revoked). He had asked me a few weeks back if I would build their school site for them this summer. He emailed to tell me he still wants me to do it. That he'll put everything in the school's name, keep my name off everything, and just pretend he didn't know either.

The program consultant was also called in, and his words were, "I've been using this site as an example across the province of how a school website should be built. I'll fight it."

And the person who is saying we CAN'T do it is an IT guy who has NOTHING to do with the educational side of the board. So while he's a big-wig in IT, he doesn't impact me. My principal said he'll take it to our superintendant (who I sit on a committee with) and fight at that level - where educational arguments will have more pull.

So basically I've been told, "You just did as you were asked, and no one is faulting you for that. You're not breaking the rules, WE are. And we'll fight it and keep your name out of it."

I'm just staying out of it.
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Jolly
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It's the smart thing to do.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Possibly good news. But don't be surprised if your side still loses. In organizational behavior, the best idea does not always - or even usually - win. It has a lot more to do with whose idea it is than with content.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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