Timeline for IT manager giving false information to management about the possibility of remote work
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 17, 2020 at 22:18 | comment | added | seventyeightist | .. is kind of a smell here, because if the upper management were really mandating "no wfh" under cover of lack of IT resources and so on... why would the IT guy then say "don't let on to upper management"? It would be a brilliant double bluff but I'm afraid in my experience the corollary to the well known "don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence" is: "don't attribute to strategy what you can attribute to personal self-interest". Now there's a sentence that's never been said before! (I even googled it.) | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 22:15 | comment | added | seventyeightist | I understood your answer e.g. "my boss frowns on wfh due to lack of productivity" etc but that doesn't fit with what the OP says: the IT guy "told me that he disabled it bc he doesn't want everyone to be wfh since he thinks it'll lead to worse productivity. 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" The IT guy's boss would have to be pretty short sighted and unaware of people's nature because surely people other than the OP have already had VPN access before, so they would start to question it. And the "don't tell".. | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 22:04 | comment | added | Machavity | @seventyeightist Why? "My boss doesn't doesn't want you to work from home" might possibly get him fired | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 22:02 | comment | added | seventyeightist | I have come across 'IT managers' who seem to think that since they have the keys to the kingdom (e,g, sysadmin level access) that this translates into dictating business processes and deciding who "should" or "shouldn't" be able to do X thing (in one case, the IT person said "I don't know why S. needs access to this? - she's a woman!" It was about 15 years ago. But regardless of that... sysadmin types sometimes seem to equate "god-level access to specific systems" with "being able to specify who in the business is 'allowed' to carry out X process"(X could be specific access all the way to vpn) | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 21:54 | comment | added | seventyeightist | > he told me that he disabled it because he doesn't want everyone to be working from home since he thinks it'll lead to worse productivity If it was due to a directive from senior management or such like he would have said so. | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 3:30 | history | answered | Machavity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |