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So, as you can guess, I am pretty P'd off right now. I was just backdoored by our new IT Manager hired earlier this month. She decided to bring in one of her old colleagues and I guess now I am a Network Support Technician rather than the Network Administrator (they mainly keep me because I am the only one that knows anything about the network).
I am now firing out resumes, if I can bail ship before he starts the 15th of May, they are SOL.
Why are co-workers putting backdoors on the business network?
By the sounds of it, management is incompetent.
Good for you in putting out resumes, there is, in all probability, a better place out there.
Good luck ITG, I hope things work out for you.
DZ, I think "backdoored" is meant as in "sidelined". Someone brought in over his head?
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I was just backdoored by our new IT Manager hired earlier this month.
Trust is a weakness. Most networks are set with security to block 'External' access to the network. Not the *internal*. Again, trust is a weakness.
I guess it's understandable that you're p/d off - nobody likes to be bypassed (whether it is justified or not)... Your post sounds like you just wanted to vent, and that's fine. If you're looking for advice - and I should know better, since you're obviously just venting, which, again, is fine - why do you feel like you're being bypassed? Do you not have a contract that tells you exactly what your duties and rights are (and position, for that matter)? If they keep you because you're "the only one that knows anything about the network", wouldn't it be in their best interest to keep you? ...
Just wondering :)
I thought it referred to a homosexual act without his consent, by someone he least expected it from.Quote:
I think "backdoored" is meant as in "sidelined".
Especially when used with those expletives!
Sure it would be in their best interests to keep ITG on board since they will more than likely ask the same duties of him as the new person is getting situated while paying him a lot less (going from admin to tech has to be a significant hit to the wallet).Quote:
Originally Posted by Negative
I had a very similar situation happen to me where I was fired within two weeks of a new boss being brought on, and I wasn't even given a reason for the whole thing, just told to pack it in and leave roughly three weeks prior to Christmas.
Don't let the politics get you down ITG, sometimes it works out for the best when you find a higher paying job and can rub it in their faces.
I'm in a position right now where I'm trying to move up, which is a move out of my department. My departmental manager is doing everything he can to sabotage the move. I'm too valuable, we're shortstaffed etc etc. I've heard all the excuses.
If he closes my doors of opportunity then just how valuable of an employee will I be likely to remain. Without opportunity, all people are slaves.
Unfortunately, this is just how the game is played. Walk around there smiling like you just won the lottery. That'll mess with their heads nicely. That should keep you entertained until you find a new place to hang your hat. Don't waste time being pissed about it. This move has happened to all IT people at least once (including myself) so focus your energy on new horizons.
--TH13
Something else to do...
When this kinda crap happens to me...I go get a new haircut...the corporate cut as I call it, new suit or 2...and always dress like I am off to a job interview........book some "out of office appointments".....
Dont waste your energy being angry....and as theHorse says...smile lots...let them think your up to something.
Stay positive....
BTW....if you do go for interviews and they ask "why" you are looking to change...dont dis your current employer\manager...just say something like you are not feeling "challenged enough' in your current position...or you would like to broaden your current skills..blah blah blah...
Good luck
MLF
When asked why you want to change employers, I like to say zomgf i love this company, it's better than my current one blah blah.
I go thru the same thing on my job. This place is a fustercluck. 2 of us
doing support for 400 desktops and 150 remote users. And my co-worker
won't delegate any of the server work because "she's not training her
replacement" (which I'm not!).
Fortunately, I like my job. I hate the business though. Horse is right; put
on a happy face and start looking. I am...
C'est la vie. ;)
What I've done in the past is to take on hidden jobs that no-one knows are being done. After a while no-one even notices. eventually you leave and the void becomes noticed.
ITG... Same type of thing happened to me... Basically, the management at my company was a bunch of f'ing morons (some of you probably remember when I was working for them, because I was on AO for like 15 hours a day then). But, then they decided they didn't "need" me any more. Though I still got calls from them after, asking passwords to thing, because, even though "security was an issue" they didn't have access to 1/2 the crap on the network.
Anyway, it took a while, but I started a new job. Teaching computers of all things. Went from being paid $12 an hour full time (40+ hours per weak), to teaching part time (6-8 hours a weak) and making $59 an hour. My takehome pay is the same now as it was then, and I have to payout for part of my insurance, and I work less then 1/4 of the same hours. Which, btw, is great, especially now, since I had a son last summer.
Don't forget to ask for a pay rise about this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by thehorse13
Steve
They are creating a job title with duties now (however, I am actively looking elsewhere).Quote:
Originally Posted by Negative
BTW, The company is a financial company and the security is null, I guess it is best to leave before someone notices the security flaws, because it is only time before someone hacks (i mean walks in through one of the security holes).
Yeah, it's amazing how lax some of these outfits are. I work in an ITARQuote:
Originally Posted by Info Tech Geek
facility which manufactures machine tools for the defense industry and
exports quite a bit, too. Our machines tools are used to manufacture
everything from cars to tanks to planes. And there is little or no computer
or network security as of yet outside of AD. I routinely run virtual machines
and no one has a clue. This promises to change in the next six months
via a series of network upgrades, but we'll see. Chit, we don't even know
where all our computers are (we got about 150 remote users)...
WOW! I left a company 2 years ago that built military engines and I was heavily involved with the DoD & DSSA.Quote:
Originally Posted by brokencrow
This outfit's so cheap. We've got 30-some odd servers onsite, and not a
single one of them has even so much as a 1 GHZ processor. We aren't running
any server hardware newer than 6 or 7 years old (yet). Most of the servers
are actually converted desktops or workstations. We actually have gone
to eBay to get older HDD's for some of the servers (we do have a few servers
running RAID arrays).
The IT dep't was gutted about 3 years ago when the company was owned
by someone else and milked for the cash. My favorite is a quote from the
new owner, "This is a machine tool company, not an IT company."
Such is life in Hell...
:rolleyes: