The Crazy Man doesn't like being made to do any work or produce results. On the other hand he doesn't like it when people don't follow rules, and will usually pursue rule-breaking to the exclusion of all else. Another manager doesn't like following any rules except his own and is something of a control freak. They clash, because neither has the capacity to actually approach the point of contention with anything less than a demand for the other side's complete and unconditional surrender, and promise never to do anything again.
The Crazy Man continues trying (with some justification) to insert himself into some of the other manager's business processes. The other manager tries to retaliate by appropriating all the Crazy Man's related processes, but fails because it's hard for the head of Technical Support to claim with any justification that he should also control Purchasing. The Crazy Man wins and, being the Crazy Man, gloats.
The other manager strikes back by forcibly migrating the Crazy Man and all his staff from their mixture of Eudora, Netscape Mail and other random mail clients to Outlook/Exchange. Most of his admin stuff are just unhappy because it's something new and they don't deal well with "new"; others are unhappy because they're convinced that without their carefully-ordered, decade-old Eudora mailboxes they'll never be able to find any mail ever again. Great anguish ensues.
Moral: nobody wins a war.
4 comments:
Sounds like M$ won the war by fooling someone else into thinking that POP3 can't handle their email and that a mail server riddled with security faults is better for Doing Business(TM)....
Who wins the war? The guy selling boxes full of things that explode.
Wow, this makes my workplace better known as "the institute of the Office Monkeys" look like kindergarten.
hahahahhaa....
Read both sites...I love it, I absolutely love it.
Fellow Cow-orker Magnet
7 weeks go by and still no update...
We are left to conclude that one of the following must therefore be true:
1. They've still got you locked in The Dungeon
2. You've been pushed too far, have finally completely lost it & have gone walkabout
3. You're on extended holiday spending all the loot you made triple-billing them for the engagement
4. She's EATEN you
5. Someone's put 2 & 2 together and finally not reached 5 and are on to you - and you're being sued for defamation of character
6. You're one slack bastard.
Heh. Institute of The Office Monkeys. I like it.
And now for the questions:
1. They've still got you locked in The Dungeon
True - the Dungeon seems to be reasonably Cow-orker proof.
2. You've been pushed too far, have finally completely lost it & have gone walkabout
How could I go walkabout now when things are just getting interesting?
3. You're on extended holiday spending all the loot you made triple-billing them for the engagement
I wish. Last I heard, though, Death Spiral still hasn't managed to fill my position, so maybe I should be contracting myself out to both places.
4. She's EATEN you
Thanks. I didn't need to sleep tonight, anyway.
5. Someone's put 2 & 2 together and finally not reached 5 and are on to you - and you're being sued for defamation of character
It's not defamation if it's true.
6. You're one slack bastard.
See? This is non-defamatory.
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