I may have told you this before, but several years ago I was the webmaster for the department in charge of telecommunications for all of a major research university (including all internet connections throughout the university, and including all ~20 branch campuses throughout the state). The sub-department that I was a part of was the computer support for this entire (very large) department.
So one day, the database administrator and I are sitting in our boss's office (the guy in charge of this computer support sub-department), meeting with him about a major project that we've been working on. We've reached the point where some major decisions need to be made, and we feel that getting management direction and approval would be a good idea. As we're sitting there talking to him and explaining the issues, his eyes start going more and more blank. Suddenly he blurts out "I don't need to understand any of this stuff! That's what I have you geeks for!" Bill and I look at each other, look at him, and say "Ok, that's what we needed to know" and excused ourselves.
People tend to rise just to the level of their incompetence. Therefore, I never have faith in or expectations of management anymore.
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Date: 2005-11-17 04:27 pm (UTC)So one day, the database administrator and I are sitting in our boss's office (the guy in charge of this computer support sub-department), meeting with him about a major project that we've been working on. We've reached the point where some major decisions need to be made, and we feel that getting management direction and approval would be a good idea. As we're sitting there talking to him and explaining the issues, his eyes start going more and more blank. Suddenly he blurts out "I don't need to understand any of this stuff! That's what I have you geeks for!" Bill and I look at each other, look at him, and say "Ok, that's what we needed to know" and excused ourselves.
People tend to rise just to the level of their incompetence. Therefore, I never have faith in or expectations of management anymore.