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>> let them suffer >I agree to that. If management doesn't feel pain of its mistakes it does not have an incentive to improve. This makes sense, but how do yo

• Zenst 14y ago
  By planning your holidays. 1) Identify issue and alert manager that it needs addressing - say ew say clock changes for summertime as a poor obvious example. 2) manager ignores it with it will be fine mentality as nothing is on fire at the time 3) you book holiday when you expect shit to hit fan Shit hits fan, you have issue documented as you alerted your manager and got response not an issue so you booked holiday and not there. With that you can not be blamed. Also ALL IT people worth there salt work above and beyond what there contract states - so if your contract is for DBA work, that is not sys admin work, that is not crawling under desks networking or desktop support - but you help out and do those things. So with that if it is outside your scope of your work contract then again you have the ability to ignore it as well. But the holiday approach is the best. But there are 3 types of managers - those that can do your job, those that think they can do your job and those that will admit they have no idea. Then ontop of that there are those that can balance dealing with you and sheilding you from HR and the other crap and then there are those that just look after themselfs and smile to your face and say all sorts behind your back. As a rule a manager that can do your job is one you will get on with, ones that can not do your job are less likely to be good managers I have found, though have met some that are and there is no hard and fast rule or way to single the good from the bad sadly until your few months into a job.