Current Events > Twitter's infrastructure engineers have got to be stressed AF these days

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I've dealt with a similar issue in my previous job. The company ended up hiring a director of IT operations around the time they went public, and that dude was so full of shit. Our infrastructure engineers (network engineer (me), system admin, and security architect) hated the guy. There isn't really a playbook for how to handle it if your boss' boss is full of shit. The director's boss also knew he was full of shit, but kept him around any way.

There were a number of things that we had to argue with him about because they were terrible ideas. Some he forced through any way and they didn't go well.

Assuming they werent all fired or quit

You make a bold assumption that Muskrat hasn't fired them already.

Not IT, but my game plan has always been to implement my boss's bad ideas as slowly as possible--or not at all if they forget to follow up--and the good ideas as quickly as possible to even out the output.

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Not IT, but my game plan has always been to implement my boss's bad ideas as slowly as possible--or not at all if they forget to follow up--and the good ideas as quickly as possible to even out the output.

Yeah... There was one day where the director wanted us to implement a virtual desktop solution for employees in a certain way, but it just wasn't going to work from a basic technical standpoint. He refused to back down about it. We then had to go to the vendor of the product he was trying to get us to do this with and ask them if it would work even though we knew it wouldn't. The vendor directly said their product wasn't meant to be used in that way. We forwarded that response to the director, thinking that was going to be the end of it. The director then whined to his boss, the VP of IT operations, who then told us to do it any way. The VP of IT operations wasn't really in the loop on the details. So we just never did it.

The system admin and security architect later ended up quitting on the same day. I then went to work for the same company the system admin went to. The replacement system admin asked me about that same shit that we refused to do. I gave him a quick rundown and told him straight up that it just wouldn't work. He was confused about why they were even asking him to do it, but he understood after he heard the whole story.

Well, at least he isnt in charge of running a nuclear power plant.