The Grass is Greener

[CajunCenturion]

I've been participating in this forum and its discussions for the past couple of years and it's amazing how many threads follow this template:

Question: I have this problem at work, and they proceed to present their case.
Responder(s): That's improper management, bad working environment, or poor co-workers. I think you should polish up your resume. It's time to move on.

What happens when you realize the grass is NOT greener on the other side?

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[pmonett]

Well let me see :
- my department director (along with the rest of the IT department) does not like Notes and resists all attempts to accept new projects with the energy of a man hanging on to a cliff for dear life - even though Notes manages the mail and the only two business-critical apps that the company has
- the IT director is totally clueless about all things IT, and is apparently intent on staying that way
- the net result is that I have to go around practically begging for work, and when I do get some, it has to be presented like a modification of an existing functionality, else it will go to the Java team
- the Java team is horrifically overbooked and understaffed, so it takes them ages to get a project out of the door while I'm begging for work
- the network team is incapable of adding disk space to the regularly overflowing NAS
- every time the NAS overflows, there are countless server issues to deal with, for which we often need the backups
- the network team has already proven itself quite capable of deleting the backups in order to make space available on the NAS

but :
- I'm paid rather well
- I have very little oversight
- I get along well with my direct collegue

You think I should be happy ? I don't. But I put up with it because right now, there's nothing on the horizon.
If I get an offer (or find a place) that gives me tons of work, even for less pay, I'll probably take it.

Pascal.

 

[BocaBurger]

Well Pascal, There should be job openings in IBM Websphere DataStage TX support in Boca Raton.



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