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September 23, 2005

Still Fighting for Anarchy at Informatics

I've been told that I am "blackballed" for my insidious acts in the PhD office over here at Eigenmann. Apparently, the file cabinets in the vacant offices were providing some sort of function, and my involvement in moving them so they could actually be used, has somehow altered the stable universe. Informatics can be such a weird place politically. I've been told that it is the same way in most other departments but I can hardly believe that anything ever gets done if everyone has to subscribe to this level of bureaucracy. At times things seem to get better, but I still find myself astounded with the extreme lack of efficiency in acquiring resources here. I have been around this campus for several years now, and I have worked for many departments, and I have to say that it seems to me that more was accomplished with less in all of those cases. One of the departments I worked for had 300+ users in offices all over the campus, all of which were supported effectively by me and one other person above me. Another place I worked had no more than 50 users in 3 separate buildings, but we had no budget, and somehow we made that work. Where am I going with this? Informatics is somewhere in the middle, probably < 300 users, and what seems like a never ending budget. So why then, do I have to get in trouble just because I started using an unused filing cabinet? Also, why do people have to dread asking for help or recourses from Informatics? My hope is that it is not sheer incompetence that causes these problems, but rather that there are issues that are unclear to me. I am not trying to stir the pot, I just wish I knew what was going on some of the time.

Posted by whazlewo at September 23, 2005 10:07 AM

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I feel ya, man. Sometimes, you just gotta cut through the crap and do what needs to be done.

BTW, be sure to read the memo sent out this morning - apparently you screwed up on your TPM reports again...

Posted by: Matt at September 23, 2005 11:31 AM

Tell them to lick your balls and then you'll talk.

Also, I think incompetence is the best possible scenario, other than immutable outside factors. You can fix incompetence. Being an asshole... it takes epic tragedy to fix that.

Posted by: Erik at September 24, 2005 3:05 AM

test

Posted by: test at February 27, 2006 1:31 PM

Tell them to lick your balls and then you'll talk

Posted by: testtest at February 27, 2006 1:31 PM

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