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Advice I heard from lab manager with 15yrs on job. 1. When everything works everyone is happy and nobody pays you any attention. 2. When something is not work
by me_me_me 5y ago
Advice I heard from lab manager with 15yrs on job.
1. When everything works everyone is happy and nobody pays you any attention.
2. When something is not working you will get shit from everyone for 'not doing your job'.
You will not be able to completely avoid 2. So your only chance to balance the scales is by showing your hard work when in case 1.
That means auto generating graphs of network resources, disk space, creating trend reports with actionable recommendations to our manager/boss.
This way they have visibility into IT world instead of it being magic that just works. It also involves them when making decisions no matter how small.
This of course is job security measure and you need to do your job first. Goodluck.