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@JROK said in I can't even:
And no authorization or clarification on IT role.... hence my 'protect my ass' emails.
CYA emails are always good ideas, no matter what. But I'd recommend staying very non-confrontational. There's no winning there. Proving mistakes are his, not yours, is fine. But to whom do you want to prove it? The only person over you is the CFO, there is no one to CYA to.
It seems pretty clear that he's a micromanager and running IT. Doesn't seem like much actually needs clarification. Your job is to do what he decides you do, and that's about it.
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@scottalanmiller
Thanks for input. That has been the direction I am taking. ..and when CFO tells me to do something and I do, he then demands 'on whose authority are you doing' - so CYA email or recorded only.And the original company and other company employees are fantastic... just the CFO and vendor.
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@JROK said in I can't even:
And the original company and other company employees are fantastic... just the CFO and vendor.
In this case, though, from your perspective it is very important to remember that for all intents and purposes the CFO is the company. You can't really separate the two. A CEO can be fired for being bad, and that happens (and I've been the "firer" of CEOs more than once), but until it actually happens, you have to view the two things... the company and the company's chain of command, as being essentially the same thing.
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I can't even.
Taken from a spiteful website.
"How many VM's can I run on my host? The host has 64GB of ram and I want to run linux desktops on them and provide each guest with 2GB of ram, I'll allocate more if you tell me it's okay to do so."
"People will be using RDP to access these guests for the purposes of training, but I need to know how many VMs can my host run. How come no one is telling me what I want to hear?"
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This topic is beyond levels of insane and the response to "liquidate everything and host these on a web hosting platform" is
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@DustinB3403 That reasoning is a bit spurious. I'm curious about what kind of ISP has that huge of a termination fee, on top of multiple ones since evidently there are at least two since it'd be 80k per ISP.
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@tonyshowoff said in I can't even:
@DustinB3403 That reasoning is a bit spurious. I'm curious about what kind of ISP has that huge of a termination fee, on top of multiple ones since evidently there are at least two since it'd be 80k per ISP.
I asked cox what the fee for termination would be - they told me the remaining contract term. not sure it's reasonable they could get it.. but they could try... unless teh contract says otherwise.
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@Dashrender said in I can't even:
@tonyshowoff said in I can't even:
@DustinB3403 That reasoning is a bit spurious. I'm curious about what kind of ISP has that huge of a termination fee, on top of multiple ones since evidently there are at least two since it'd be 80k per ISP.
I asked cox what the fee for termination would be - they told me the remaining contract term. not sure it's reasonable they could get it.. but they could try... unless teh contract says otherwise.
I once terminated an OC3 contract years ago, it was $10k but I just never paid it. So 80k per ISP, hmm.
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@Dashrender said in I can't even:
@tonyshowoff said in I can't even:
@DustinB3403 That reasoning is a bit spurious. I'm curious about what kind of ISP has that huge of a termination fee, on top of multiple ones since evidently there are at least two since it'd be 80k per ISP.
I asked cox what the fee for termination would be - they told me the remaining contract term. not sure it's reasonable they could get it.. but they could try... unless teh contract says otherwise.
$80K is easily the termination costs. Insanely foolish to be in that boat, but totally possible.
That's 5 years x 12 months, that's $1200/mo or something like that. Totally reasonable numbers.
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@scottalanmiller Multiple ISPs though gets me. At any rate, holy cow, then again I ran out on my bill in the 90s, and the more I think about it, it may have $17k. Looks like I got a bargain, thanks NYNEX you shitshow of a company.
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@tonyshowoff said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller Multiple ISPs though gets me. At any rate, holy cow, then again I ran out on my bill in the 90s, and the more I think about it, it may have $17k. Looks like I got a bargain, thanks NYNEX you shitshow of a company.
I think that he was trying to build a hosting company, and everyone wants a guarantee that you have two different ISPs.
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@scottalanmiller The NYNEX OC3 I mentioned above, was over multiple links and they claimed that it was "redundant", but as you can imagine, if you were in the New York area in the 90s, it's NYNEX so it's easy to believe they'd say something like that.
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@tonyshowoff said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller The NYNEX OC3 I mentioned above, was over multiple links and they claimed that it was "redundant", but as you can imagine, if you were in the New York area in the 90s, it's NYNEX so it's easy to believe they'd say something like that.
I had similar "it's not really redundant" two carrier fiber issues in Scranton in the early 2000s.
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@scottalanmiller The only thing dumber I've heard, at least from the phone company in the 90s, was when I was told that ISDN doesn't have an IP address, and no I don't mean in some sort of niche point to point frame relay stuff, I mean as in for piss poor Internet access. I did ask "well, how is it sending/receiving packets without an Internet Protocol address" and the guy just laughed and said "I don't know man, it just doesn't have an IP address!"
