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

> From: R. DuFresne <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question])
> To: "Brian Loe" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Firewall Wizards Security Mailing List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 1:52 PM
> 
> 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

I really have to agree with Ron on this.  I see this all too often:
Tech:  "If you do that, this important functionality will break."
Manager does that.  Functionality breaks.
Manager: "It is all your fault."
Tech: "I warned you that would happen."
Manager: "You didn't persuade me to not do it, so it is your fault."
Manager spreads his version of fault around the company.

hermit921