Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question])

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Brian Loe wrote:

>
> Instead use your change management policy to request the changes you
> want to make or the access a user wants. Then if bad decisions are
> made by other people they are documented as to who is responsible for
> the resulting evil!
>
> I could care less what my employer wants to do, so long as I have
> informed them of my opinion and accountability for their stupidity has
> been assigned to someone else.


This assumes two poiots though, that the BIG guys up there have integrity 
and have taken responsiblity for their decisions.  I seldom find either f 
those to be the case and have seen cases whence the "stupidity" still 
rests on the techies shoulders as "they failed to properly inform me of 
the error of my ways".



Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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