Pet Peeves
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Head of IT department who thinks he can run network AND database administration for some 500 users with only 2 full time admins. He doesn't need a dedicated DBA because this sums up onto personell cost. Instead hiring external consultants which cost much more, but they can be hidden under material costs.
Frank
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Frank Kalis
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Head of IT department who thinks he can run network AND database administration for some 500 users with only 2 full time admins.Try 400+ users but no full-time admins... One chap who does network admin / troubleshooting as part of his job, and two very-part-time DBAs (of which I am one...)
Thomas Rushton
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Try 400+ users but no full-time admins... One chap who does network admin / troubleshooting as part of his job, and two very-part-time DBAs (of which I am one...)at least you ARE in a DBA position.
Frank
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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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Try 400+ users but no full-time admins... One chap who does network admin / troubleshooting as part of his job, and two very-part-time DBAs (of which I am one...)at least you ARE in a DBA position.
Not exclusively, and probably not officially either. It's one of the many things I do here.
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The posts on the previous page reminded me of a couple more things...
Managers who claim to be technically competent, apply patches to servers in the middle of the night, don't tell you, then expect you to fix things when they don't work the next morning...
People who page you with a '911' - and then aren't at their phone after you threw half of your lunch away so you could race back to the office to answer the 'emergecy' call...
And Antares a hardy "here, here" to what you said. It seems like some people get promoted well beyond the level of their competence with outrageous salaries, while others who are quite competent, work very hard, and have families to support wind up poorly compensated or even getting the axe sometimes. I saw another post a while back that said bascially that salary usually has little to do with your education, skills, and the ability to perform your job well. I would say that based on what I've seen I have to agree. Life isn't fair, but then who said that it was?
Best to all,
Sandman
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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uhhhhh....did I say 'people who don't proof read their work' before? That should have been 'emergency'
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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This week, my pet peeve is cat-5 hurricanes, especially the one named Isabel. We are right in its path, here in Virginia Beach. I own a waterfront condo and a boat. Today, that is. By Thursday afternoon, if the hurricane continues on its present path at its present strength, neither is likely.
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Managers who think I am a f*****g fireman.I didn't know you worked here!
Wait a minute, I thought that was a business requirement. They even sent me a business case for it.
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Head of IT department who thinks he can run network AND database administration for some 500 users with only 2 full time admins. He doesn't need a dedicated DBA because this sums up onto personell cost. Instead hiring external consultants which cost much more, but they can be hidden under material costs.Frank
And that is a sad fact when done. I even saw a cost comparison of contractors versus FTEs (full-time employees) and found we paid almost 2 times as much to the contract company just for the sake of having a no-strings deal where we could evaluate people as we wanted instead of a 90 day probation. But what ticks me off is when FTEs are cut and contractors are kept (duh that was the cost of 2 FTEs in many cases you goobs). It seems never to be about cost savings but how well you can hide your resources in the budget.
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I get real peeved with folks who don't follow basic troubleshooting in Windows. I spent 6 hours one middle of the night a few months back because someone stated my app was backlogging a call switch and putting an 80% load on the server but on the other 3 it was only about 5-8%. I told them no way and they needed to do something about the problem. AFter some discussion they decidede the CPU was the issue and did a middle of the night change control. The CPU was installed and nothing, ok maybe motherboard. Now wait a freaking minutes was all I could yell. I have dealt with PCs and never seen a CPU or Motherboard have this affect without causing other issues. Hey by the way what all did you check to determine CPU. They commented since it was the CPU that was seeing the load must be the CPU. Well I asked if anyone bothered checking the darn event logs. I got dead air on the call and then someone going what is that. After all was said in done the answer was blatant in the logs (bad admin controller card for the switch barking at the event logs so fast it was bogging down the system. They change the card and in the morning what did we learn meeting no one even stated check the EVent Logs first until I threw it in (again). That didn't just peeve me off and I probably would have been a good stand in as the hulk. Always check the logs as step one, good programers or even just those with a clue should be writting to them.
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I got one for ya.
When the same person asks the same questions over and over and over...
I just want to get Mid-Evil on em.. Grrrrr.
Ok.. I feel better now.
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Will
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I got one for ya.When the same person asks the same questions over and over and over...
I just want to get Mid-Evil on em.. Grrrrr.
Ok.. I feel better now.
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Will
Hate to say it, but the best way to deal with this is tell them something wrong so they end up explaining how they cannot do their job and when they suggest you told them how to do it you promptly give the right answer and they many times will not bother you again. Of course there are situations you cannot do this but in those you can it can be quite fun.
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Hate to say it, but the best way to deal with this is tell them something wrong so they end up explaining how they cannot do their job and when they suggest you told them how to do it you promptly give the right answer and they many times will not bother you again. Of course there are situations you cannot do this but in those you can it can be quite fun.yes, sometimes it pays to give them something to think over, so they cannot hold you back from the real important tasks.
Or give them something half-true, half-not true
Btw, we shouldn't get in social contact anymore!
Frank
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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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Btw, we shouldn't get in social contact anymore!Oh, why not, don't you think it would be fun to hang out with me in a bar.
BTW, I am not a negative person these rants are the ones I hold back when smiling at the folks who ask for reports on the same data they have reports for.
Edited by - antares686 on 09/16/2003 05:58:42 AM
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Oh, why not, don't you think it would be fun to hang out with me in a bar.Drinking a beer with you and several others here from this forum would certainly mean a lot of fun!!!
Maybe some day.....
Frank
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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]
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