Current Events > Last job was largely ruined because of the global IT director they hired (rant)

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tl:dr: He was full of shit and generally insufferable.

He was the kind of guy who would tell blatant falsehoods about things and wouldn't back down about them no matter how wrong he was. He was my boss' boss, and it was so weird thing trying to navigate certain situations at work because of that. There were a number of situations where he would say stuff that's just blatantly false.

• He spent the 1st few days of his tenure telling me the guest wifi was down at the corporate office when it wasn't. He just never registered his phone on the splash page.
• He once said "There is no such thing as an email firewall." While we were literally paying Barracuda to use their email firewall service for the company.
• He said "MPLS is a dead technology that no one uses any more" while we literally had 6 ISPs at the corporate office. Two for voice MPLS, two for data MPLS, and two for public internet access. Also the two internet access connections we had from AT&T and Spectrum used their own internal MPLS networks to provide us internet service.
• He once said he didn't want small netgear switches on the network because he once hacked into his neighbor's switch. I thought back to his difficulty getting on the guest wifi and just figured he was lying.
• He tried to get us to implement a virtual desktop solution for the company that just wasn't going to work from a fundamental technology standpoint and he refused to accept that. We even asked the vendor he wanted to buy the solution from whether they thought it would work and they straight up said the software wasn't meant for that purpose. He then ran to his boss to try to get us to do it any way.
• When the company started rapidly growing in size, I told him I needed help because there was too much work to do. I was constantly working 60 to 80 hours per week. He refused to hire anyone. I was the only one who knew the network AND I was the only one who understood networking at a high level in the company. So obviously, if I was unavailable for any reason and something critical broke, they'd be screwed. When I brought this up, he said "Your job is like a McDonald's cashier. If you're unavailable, we'll just call someone else in."
• He made a decision for the whole company that changed the way voice calls would be routed without even talking to me. This set off a huge panic for me. We originally had calls going over a

The IT department ended up being so overloaded with work that it took us forever to resolve trouble tickets on top of all the other things we were tasked with doing. We had a an IT meeting one day where he pretty much spent the whole hour attacking people for not getting anything done on time. HR actually had 1 on 1 meetings with everyone in IT after this. I think we all made our feelings about that guy known to HR.

The company was about to hire a CIO and he wanted to be promoted to that position. They ended up telling him that he wasn't qualified to be CIO. He got his feelings hurt and quit. He went to some company in Charleston, SC. He offered me a job on the way out and I told him no.

A few weeks after he quit, he contacted someone else in IT in order to get in contact with me. He tried to offer me a job again. I said no.

Fast forward to today, he contacted me again and tried to get me to leave this company that I like a LOT and go work for him in Charleston, SC. If my job is like a McDonald's cashier and he can just call someone else in at any time, then I think he should just do that. I'm NEVER going to voluntarily work for him ever again. And I hope my current company never hires him for any reason.

He was pretty much Miley Cyrus in IT for us. He came in like a wrecking ball and left. The company lost about 5 out of the 12 people in IT because of him. Network engineer (me), system admin, security architect, manager of application support, and one of the entry level IT guys as well.

/rant

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