Office Politics

I work in a large organization and we have a large development team working in various regions. With team of such size and regional diversity, continuous build and integration is a must. So we have decided to move to a better build platform. We installed the evaluation version and I was impressed, problem was that without licenses we could not do much.

Computerworld's annual salary survey came out today, which makes us wonder: how are Shark Bait's denizens faring in this economy? Are you getting paid what you deserve? Have you taken a pay cut and are happy just to be employed, or has your moral taken a beating along with your salary?

I kept getting calls from our help desk that user's devices couldn't pull network services. After querying the switchport the device in question was connected to it would be administratively shut!

Back in the days before cell phones and cheap blu-tooth wireless phone headsets I had a wired "hands free" headset for my office phone. I "promoted" it via "Midnight office supply" from an empty desk where it had sat unused for quite a while.

Something amazing happened a few hours ago. I was using the copy machine to copy some papers when my best friend came and said "When you're done with that go to the meeting room." So I finished and went to the meeting room. Where me and seven others were sitting at the table. And my boss handed everyone a card. Each had two boxes one said "Vito" and the other said

We are an organization that is part of a far larger organization. We and other offices are located in other cities from the two main organization headquarters.

Computerworld is about to release its annual Best Places to Work special. We want to create an alternative survey here in the Shark Bait community — the worst places to work!

What are your opinions on the use of HTML emails in the workplace?

The posting about the "Queen of Creep" gave me the courage to post this one:

We have one user (no further details on who the user is, please) who communicates with I.T. in the following sequence:

I rate it the worst for the following reasons:

1) upper management doesn't understand IT or what it takes to accomplish things at this government agency. Top IT management is not grown from within, but appointed from the outside to fulfill political favors.