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I've snapped. Today I have decided that I can't stand my job any longer. I've been holding up hope on the promise of better things, but now I've come to accept that those in charge are a bunch of self-centred, ignorant, short-sighted, money-grabbing liars.
After 6 months of preparing a disaster-recovery proposal, speccing and pricing it, and trying to push it to the board, I finally heard back about the board meeting today. (May I point out that for a technology investment company, they don't have anyone with a technical background on the board. I'm in charge of all the IT, and they didn't even want me to speak there.)
They have decided, in their resplendantly infinite wisdom, that it would be a waste of money to implement my disaster-recovery system, and that they don't even want to upgrade the shonky old DDS3 backup drives to something that stands a chance of recording everything. Instead of this, they're (again) planning to "clear the junk out of the system, and remove duplicate files"... They've said this 5 times since June - nothing has improved.
I'm sick of the whole thing. They pay me to be here, and I have nothing to do. They won't pay to have me improve the systems they have. This year, I've spent a substantial amount of my time learning how to complete the Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Revenge and Rubik's Professor. I have nothing left to do in the new year.
It's time to move on. I've been stuck in this rut for too long.
Right - I'm going to do some sit-ups, because I have nothing else to do here...
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