used to be the email administrator for a large state agency in Georgia; after months of discussions about the growing uncontrolled growth of the email database management agreed to let us change the setting so that the trash was automatically emptied after 30 days. (yeah, it took a lot of pulling teeth to get just that incredibly basic setting approved).
the following week the IT DIRECTOR; a dude that had literally been in all of those meetings where this was discussed came in screaming that someone had emptied the trash from his email account… he was really upset because… and i am quoting…. “that’s where I keep my most important messages”…
Did I mention that he was the IT DIRECTOR?!!!!
at a different company I had another grossly unqualified IT Director; He was absolutely clueless… one time I was visiting one of our field offices in Denver and found him standing at the fax machine with a very large (close to 200 page) document…. he had just printed the document from his laptop and was faxing it to his assistant back in Atlanta so that she could manually enter all of the changes he had typed in to his copy back to the ‘master copy’ on his computer back at the office.
he literally had a drive mapped to the shared drive in Atlanta where his document was stored at the time…
Did I mention that companies often promote totally incompetent people to positions where they have absolutely none of the skills needed for the job?
wait ’til you hear about the officers I worked with in the Air Force…
It’s called the Peter Principle. One is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence and then they are just left at that level, being incompetent.
GM was just as bad. I’ve had supervisors that were promoted form clerk to being over skilled people because he played golf with the upper management. Or the last one I had because he played for the Lions for a few years. No technical knowledge whatsoever just micromanaged every project by shuffling people around wondering why things didn’t get done on time no matter who he moved to another project. Who then had to familiarize himself with the project someone else started.
The goat on the post is becoming more common than ever.
Too many of them are elected.
used to be the email administrator for a large state agency in Georgia; after months of discussions about the growing uncontrolled growth of the email database management agreed to let us change the setting so that the trash was automatically emptied after 30 days. (yeah, it took a lot of pulling teeth to get just that incredibly basic setting approved).
the following week the IT DIRECTOR; a dude that had literally been in all of those meetings where this was discussed came in screaming that someone had emptied the trash from his email account… he was really upset because… and i am quoting…. “that’s where I keep my most important messages”…
Did I mention that he was the IT DIRECTOR?!!!!
at a different company I had another grossly unqualified IT Director; He was absolutely clueless… one time I was visiting one of our field offices in Denver and found him standing at the fax machine with a very large (close to 200 page) document…. he had just printed the document from his laptop and was faxing it to his assistant back in Atlanta so that she could manually enter all of the changes he had typed in to his copy back to the ‘master copy’ on his computer back at the office.
he literally had a drive mapped to the shared drive in Atlanta where his document was stored at the time…
Did I mention that companies often promote totally incompetent people to positions where they have absolutely none of the skills needed for the job?
wait ’til you hear about the officers I worked with in the Air Force…
It’s called the Peter Principle. One is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence and then they are just left at that level, being incompetent.
GM was just as bad. I’ve had supervisors that were promoted form clerk to being over skilled people because he played golf with the upper management. Or the last one I had because he played for the Lions for a few years. No technical knowledge whatsoever just micromanaged every project by shuffling people around wondering why things didn’t get done on time no matter who he moved to another project. Who then had to familiarize himself with the project someone else started.
The goat on the post is becoming more common than ever.
Too many of them are elected.