This blog is many things to me, but for most of the posts I've created out here, they have been complaints about my life.
My last post talked about making changes. Most of these changes are related to things I am passion about, which is changing what I do for a living. After 28 years as a Network Admin, I am needing/wanting a change.
I am very passionate about wanting this change. But more than anything, I am passionate about the many projects I have going on. I want to complete them. But I let too many other things in life get in the way of working on them to completion. This eats at me a lot.. multiple times a day as I encounter the things that distract me.
I keep thinking I will reach that point of "I CAN"T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE!!" but then another day comes along where I deal with these things that block me from moving forward.
I've come to the recent conclusion that I can't let these distractions worry me or prevent me from completing my personal and business projects. While I've been ok to let them make me feel a lack of passion at my day job, I've let that lack bleed over to my own personal life outside of the day job. That is where my main frustration level grows larger by the day and the hour.
I must simply find the best and most effective way to work through my personal life and day job responsibilities, while rediscovering the passion I used to have for making videos, writing stories and blogging my life's adventures. It's the only thing that I can see that will relieve me of my complaints, stress and irritations.
Showing posts with label network admin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label network admin. Show all posts
October 9, 2013
January 13, 2010
Trust or Fear
Today was an odd day at work. Well, most days are filled some sort of oddness, but there was an odd thing that happened today. And it's happened before, but more about that later.
I work in a formal IT department. There are three of us that are considered system or network administrators. My official title is Network Admin.
My responsibilities include the management of our company-wide email system, main FTP server and helping with maintaining our server farm. I've been there almost seven years and have been working in IT almost 25 years.
Today, a call came in where one of my co-workers was asked to take care of a computer issue in one of our east coast offices. This co-worker then recruited the help of the other admin.
While trying various options, they asked for my help. I immediately offered and asked what the situation was. I was told that they needed to get some data off of a computer. I then asked what computer this was.
This is where the odd part comes in.
I was told by the first co-worker that they were told to keep it confidential and not tell anyone else.
Huh?
Puzzled, but recalling a similar situation happening several times before with the "keep it confidential", I tested a solution on another computer and offered it up to my other co-workers.
Now I understand certain topics and subjects that need to remain confidential. I've not spent the amount of time I have managing people's data and sensitive needs over the years without knowing how to be professional and ethical in all of my dealings at any company I've worked at.
But when you are in a close knit group of people - a team - you learn to trust each other when dealing with sensitive subjects.
All of us are admins. We all have identical rights on the entire network to manage, disable, grant rights and take care of needs from our upper management when asked.
But for some reason, my co-worker seems to think that when there is a general user that they are told to keep confident about, that means not to share that information with your other co-workers, especially when you are asking that person for specific help.
Granted, this co-worker did share the information with the other co-worker, mostly due to the fact that this co-worker needed additional help. But when my additional help was needed, lips were sealed on any details.
Why does this bother me so much?
Mostly it's due to the fact that we are a team. We all work together in the same area. When a bit of company-related information of a sensitive nature (ie. layoffs, terminations) needs to be completed, I would hope that all of us could trust each other and be confident that we are all professionals and will keep this information to ourselves. I've shared such information before when told to keep it confidential. Why? Because I trust that my other co-workers are just as ethical and professional as I am.
And that's what bothers me the most. It's the lack of any logical or reciprocal thought when a situation comes up like this.
And when it happens again, I fear that I may be just as jilted and just as silent.
Trust and fear. Two bed fellows that often accompany work-related issues.
I work in a formal IT department. There are three of us that are considered system or network administrators. My official title is Network Admin.
My responsibilities include the management of our company-wide email system, main FTP server and helping with maintaining our server farm. I've been there almost seven years and have been working in IT almost 25 years.
Today, a call came in where one of my co-workers was asked to take care of a computer issue in one of our east coast offices. This co-worker then recruited the help of the other admin.
While trying various options, they asked for my help. I immediately offered and asked what the situation was. I was told that they needed to get some data off of a computer. I then asked what computer this was.
This is where the odd part comes in.
I was told by the first co-worker that they were told to keep it confidential and not tell anyone else.
Huh?
Puzzled, but recalling a similar situation happening several times before with the "keep it confidential", I tested a solution on another computer and offered it up to my other co-workers.
Confused
Now I understand certain topics and subjects that need to remain confidential. I've not spent the amount of time I have managing people's data and sensitive needs over the years without knowing how to be professional and ethical in all of my dealings at any company I've worked at.
But when you are in a close knit group of people - a team - you learn to trust each other when dealing with sensitive subjects.
All of us are admins. We all have identical rights on the entire network to manage, disable, grant rights and take care of needs from our upper management when asked.
But for some reason, my co-worker seems to think that when there is a general user that they are told to keep confident about, that means not to share that information with your other co-workers, especially when you are asking that person for specific help.
Granted, this co-worker did share the information with the other co-worker, mostly due to the fact that this co-worker needed additional help. But when my additional help was needed, lips were sealed on any details.
Why does this bother me so much?
Mostly it's due to the fact that we are a team. We all work together in the same area. When a bit of company-related information of a sensitive nature (ie. layoffs, terminations) needs to be completed, I would hope that all of us could trust each other and be confident that we are all professionals and will keep this information to ourselves. I've shared such information before when told to keep it confidential. Why? Because I trust that my other co-workers are just as ethical and professional as I am.
And that's what bothers me the most. It's the lack of any logical or reciprocal thought when a situation comes up like this.
And when it happens again, I fear that I may be just as jilted and just as silent.
Trust and fear. Two bed fellows that often accompany work-related issues.
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