“Terry also, obviously, had a terrible relationship with his superiors. I should point out that he’s not just a network engineer — he was the lead network engineer for the entire City. His bosses were all managerial rather than technical, and while the other engineers did not actually report to Terry, they did defer to him in any technical matters. Even the network architect left it to Terry to actually figure out implementation. Terry felt that his direct superior was intrusive, incompetent, and obstructive, and that the managers above him had no real idea of what was going on, and were more interested in office politics than in getting anything done. “[Childs] complained that they spent more time doing paperwork — change requests, documentation, etc. — than actually implementing or fixing anything (a common complaint among engineers, I know). He complained about being overworked (which he was, and which his colleagues are even more now) and that many of his colleagues were incompetent freeloaders (also not entirely without basis).”
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Why San Francisco’s network admin went rogue | InfoWorld | News | July 18, 2008 | By Paul Venezia
- I SO know how this guys feels! In his shoes, I would have done the same.
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