More on Quitting
Posting from: Tucson, AZ
Listening to: Ron Sexsmith, Jazz at the Bookstore
When I decided to quit my job, I was not sure about the amount of time I was giving notice. On one hand, I wanted to give them as much chance as possible to replace me (I assumed they'd be hiring outside), but on the other hand, I had seen someone else who gave several weeks notice get treated like crap for the remainder of his time here. However, I decided to let them have 4-6 weeks notice and gave myself permission to shorten that if things got ugly. I am now at T minus three and a half weeks, and things are not at all bad.
One of the nice things about quitting this far in advance is getting to enjoy seeing what is coming down from upstream for the rest of the folks here that I will not have to deal with as I will be gone.
There is someone here who I consider my ultimate workplace nemesis. He figures out what management wants to hear and then massages the data to make it justify that predetermined conclusion. This is just plain wrong, and I will not do it. We have gone round and round about this. He thinks it is okay to do that as long as your predetermined conclusion is correct. I believe that you cannot fairly assess your predetermined conclusion when you are in the mindset that you are looking much harder for reasons why it is correct and hardly or not at all looking for reasons why it might be wrong.
Well, after a couple of rounds of Kirsten vs. Nemesis on *insert major problem of the month here*, Nemesis simply stopped involving me in the investigations except to try and get me to rubberstamp his conclusion after he has put together the "analysis" justifying it. I do not do that. Instead, I have just been referring him to my boss and refusing to allow my name to be put on any of these things. The last one I was "involved" in only came to my attention because a manager asked me to exlain the reliability analysis on a certain problem to him. I am, after all, the reliability engineer. I had to break the news to him that the reliability analysis was not done by a reliability engineer but rather my nemesis, and it did not have our buy-in or agreement. It was based on a lot of sketchy assumptions because Nemesis decided that was the best we could do. The conclusion of this was that we were going to keep shipping product with the customer's agreement based on this "analysis" that it would be okay in certain environments. The products would be segregated and tracked so that they would be used only in those certain environments.
Fast forward to this past week: the hardware that was faulty which Nemesis justified using with his "analysis" is now being recalled altogether by our supplier which means we will likely have to go retrieve from our customer the hardware in which it is installed.
Gee, maybe someone should have listened to reliability for once...
Ha ha. Ha ha ha. HahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nemesis is left behind to clean up the mess he made, and I am off to Montana (-Hannah). My little corner of the fabric of the space-time continuum has been freshly washed and pressed.
Listening to: Ron Sexsmith, Jazz at the Bookstore
When I decided to quit my job, I was not sure about the amount of time I was giving notice. On one hand, I wanted to give them as much chance as possible to replace me (I assumed they'd be hiring outside), but on the other hand, I had seen someone else who gave several weeks notice get treated like crap for the remainder of his time here. However, I decided to let them have 4-6 weeks notice and gave myself permission to shorten that if things got ugly. I am now at T minus three and a half weeks, and things are not at all bad.
One of the nice things about quitting this far in advance is getting to enjoy seeing what is coming down from upstream for the rest of the folks here that I will not have to deal with as I will be gone.
There is someone here who I consider my ultimate workplace nemesis. He figures out what management wants to hear and then massages the data to make it justify that predetermined conclusion. This is just plain wrong, and I will not do it. We have gone round and round about this. He thinks it is okay to do that as long as your predetermined conclusion is correct. I believe that you cannot fairly assess your predetermined conclusion when you are in the mindset that you are looking much harder for reasons why it is correct and hardly or not at all looking for reasons why it might be wrong.
Well, after a couple of rounds of Kirsten vs. Nemesis on *insert major problem of the month here*, Nemesis simply stopped involving me in the investigations except to try and get me to rubberstamp his conclusion after he has put together the "analysis" justifying it. I do not do that. Instead, I have just been referring him to my boss and refusing to allow my name to be put on any of these things. The last one I was "involved" in only came to my attention because a manager asked me to exlain the reliability analysis on a certain problem to him. I am, after all, the reliability engineer. I had to break the news to him that the reliability analysis was not done by a reliability engineer but rather my nemesis, and it did not have our buy-in or agreement. It was based on a lot of sketchy assumptions because Nemesis decided that was the best we could do. The conclusion of this was that we were going to keep shipping product with the customer's agreement based on this "analysis" that it would be okay in certain environments. The products would be segregated and tracked so that they would be used only in those certain environments.
Fast forward to this past week: the hardware that was faulty which Nemesis justified using with his "analysis" is now being recalled altogether by our supplier which means we will likely have to go retrieve from our customer the hardware in which it is installed.
Gee, maybe someone should have listened to reliability for once...
Ha ha. Ha ha ha. HahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nemesis is left behind to clean up the mess he made, and I am off to Montana (-Hannah). My little corner of the fabric of the space-time continuum has been freshly washed and pressed.
posted by Kirsten | 3/09/2008 04:52:00 PM
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