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Being a small cog, but using clever tricks to get your job done is not solving the problem. An organisation that prevents itself from acting rationally is an o

Being a small cog, but using clever tricks to get your job done is not solving the problem. An organisation that prevents itself from acting rationally is an organisation that should die Schumpter-style. Please don't prevent it.

sumtechguy 5y ago
Also circumventing this sort of thing in many orgs is a first class ticket to finding a new job. Friend of mine did that, they walked him to the curb with his cardboard box that day. His sin? Turned off virus scanning because it was taking 4 hours to do a 20 min build.
- azalemeth 5y ago
  To be honest, if I were in that situation I'd be thinking something along the lines of "well, that was a dodged bullet".
- novok 5y ago
  The organization did him a favor. Many other, far more well paying companies response to doing that is working with the developer to figure out a system to make them both happy, or just silently ignoring it until they figure out a better solution. Or just talking to the person and asking them to stop, vs firing.
  - sumtechguy 5y ago
    Took him nearly a year to find a job and had to go on food stamps. I do not think he saw it that way. If you are in some of these smaller markets it can take time to find a job. Especially if you do not live in the area.
throwaway09223 5y ago
I'm not seeing where this relates to organizational dysfunction. Using an external point to test a system is a standard practice. I'm also a little confused because preventing someone from using their abilities to problem solve would be a cause of dysfunction -- a seemingly avoidable one.
croutonwagon 5y ago
I use similar "clever tricks", albeit with SSH and socks to do the same type of testing. DNS can be funky, its useful to test resolution externally and internally. Traffic can be funky when routed, its useful to t-shoot sites through a proxy here and there as there have been times it works internally and is broken externally (often security appliances are inline that may need debugging). Working in IT infra/ops means its our jobs to use some of these tools to troubleshoot these methods.

sumtechguy 5y ago

Also circumventing this sort of thing in many orgs is a first class ticket to finding a new job. Friend of mine did that, they walked him to the curb with his cardboard box that day. His sin? Turned off virus scanning because it was taking 4 hours to do a 20 min build.

azalemeth 5y ago
To be honest, if I were in that situation I'd be thinking something along the lines of "well, that was a dodged bullet".
novok 5y ago
The organization did him a favor. Many other, far more well paying companies response to doing that is working with the developer to figure out a system to make them both happy, or just silently ignoring it until they figure out a better solution. Or just talking to the person and asking them to stop, vs firing.
- sumtechguy 5y ago
  Took him nearly a year to find a job and had to go on food stamps. I do not think he saw it that way. If you are in some of these smaller markets it can take time to find a job. Especially if you do not live in the area.

throwaway09223 5y ago

I'm not seeing where this relates to organizational dysfunction. Using an external point to test a system is a standard practice. I'm also a little confused because preventing someone from using their abilities to problem solve would be a cause of dysfunction -- a seemingly avoidable one.

croutonwagon 5y ago

I use similar "clever tricks", albeit with SSH and socks to do the same type of testing. DNS can be funky, its useful to test resolution externally and internally. Traffic can be funky when routed, its useful to t-shoot sites through a proxy here and there as there have been times it works internally and is broken externally (often security appliances are inline that may need debugging). Working in IT infra/ops means its our jobs to use some of these tools to troubleshoot these methods.