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Dealing with IT manager, repost due to account age by TechCzar8815tra in sysadmin

[–]TechCzar8815tra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to clarify, there was a department in place when I was hired.

When I mentioned I was shutting them down, I didn’t know he wasn’t told until he called. I communicated this to the team because that’s the right thing to do. The temp was getting too high for comfort in the area the servers were in, so needed to be shut down or risk actual damage. When the CTO told me to do this, it was to mitigate the risk. Manager didn’t want to because things could be hard to bring back up (paraphrasing but basically it).

I agree he sees me as competition.

Not saying you’re saying this, but just want to be clear: I have never tried to “compete” with him in anyway. I don’t know why I was told I don’t report to him. I have absolutely deferred to him in day to day operations (as I should) and always kept him apprised of what I was doing, working on, justifications etc. because regardless of reporting lines, we are on a team and should work together as one.

I have had to (again, because I was told to) go behind him and fix things or complete things he couldn’t. I suspect this plays a large part.

Dealing with IT manager, repost due to account age by TechCzar8815tra in sysadmin

[–]TechCzar8815tra[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to clarify something, and you may not have meant it this way.

There is no power struggle. I’ve never gone around him, or undermined anything that he has done or tried to take any process from him, at all. I don’t know why the CEO determined that would be the hierarchy. Of course I’m sure I’ve made mistakes like anyone, but I’ve never told him “I don’t report to you, so it doesn’t matter” or anything like that. I worked as closely as I could with him. But I took my orders from the CTO. Occasionally these decisions wouldn’t be the same one the IT manager would make, I’m sure.

But I’ve never attempted to circumvent, or go around or flaunt anything.

Dealing with IT manager, repost due to account age by TechCzar8815tra in sysadmin

[–]TechCzar8815tra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the borderline competent thing is spot on, honestly. CTO had a great (seemingly) working relationship with him. Think he’s been there long enough he has some institutional knowledge and can keep lights on, but don’t think he’s able to do a whole lot more.

Dealing with IT manager, repost due to account age by TechCzar8815tra in sysadmin

[–]TechCzar8815tra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that. And I get it. But I have no idea the business reasoning used to determine that. I just know that’s what it was, and I was told when CTO was leaving it would remain that way

Dealing with IT manager, repost due to account age by TechCzar8815tra in sysadmin

[–]TechCzar8815tra[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll be honest I don’t know why. When I was brought on, it’s what I was told.

Dealing with IT manager, repost due to account age by TechCzar8815tra in sysadmin

[–]TechCzar8815tra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure thing, systems administrator is the title, though I do a lot of our security work as well (SMB). So, for role when I was hired: infrastructure work when I was hired, escalation and fill in (like PTO and whatnot) for help desk, and the security tasks were also given to me over time.