Timeline for IT manager giving false information to management about the possibility of remote work
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
4 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2020 at 20:36 | comment | added | seventyeightist | And actually on reflection: "He told me not to tell anyone since he's telling our CEO/management that we don't/can't have a VPN at all." so he's not only lying but asking the OP to be complicit in the lie (I missed this when I read it before). So he's not only lying for reasons of 'personal beliefs' or whatever about productivity but also trying to get the OP to conceal the lie as well... this guy needs to be fired and replaced. Either he set up a stealth VPN and didn't communicate it (why?) or the VPN was known with out of hours work etc but now it's denied (why?) this guy is up to no good. | |
| Mar 16, 2020 at 20:21 | comment | added | seventyeightist | ... and an additional comment because I was too late to edit -- the readiness to lie about this should be taken by any reasonable management as maybe symptomatic of a... let's say a "flexible relationship with the truth" in other situations. They may well want to unravel what else this guy might have misled them about because of his own feelings / convenience / whatever. | |
| Mar 16, 2020 at 20:10 | comment | added | seventyeightist | I feel like this is the 'correct' answer, because it addresses the immediate problem (needing to work from home due to coronageddon and whether you have tools in place to do that) and also the issue of the IT guy gone rogue. In what way is it the place of a sysadmin (an important role, but not generally having strategic input about things like "productivity of people in the company as a whole") to unilaterally make the call to lie to management and give false impressions because of their personal feelings!? Upvoted. | |
| Mar 16, 2020 at 15:52 | history | answered | Dave3of5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |