Work in the past month or so has been quite interesting. I have managed to loose all the respect and trust that I worked so hard to gain from most of my co-workers. I have requested new software and upgrades to existing software only to be shot down immediately because some people don't understand it. I know it's my job to convince them it's better, but lately they have refused to listen to me. It all comes down to "No, we don't have the money and we don't want to deal with learning somethign new". Sounds like a bad business philosophy to me.
Yesterday, one of the ladies that I am working on training in J2EE was having some issues with her project when it was moved up to the next level of testing over at the naval base. This project uses SilverStream 3.7 as it's application server, which is a POS if you ask me. Everything is deployed and stored in a table in an Oracle database, which makes deployments interesting. Well, we don't have permissions to move files up from one server to the next, so we had to have them do it. Well, all they did was copy all of the .JAR files from one DB to the other. This is all fine and good, except that the XML deployment descriptor didn't get sourced in on the new server so it had no idea what the beans were called and how they were stored in JNDI. In fact, they weren't.
I told her this, and she believed me. But when she told the project manager what needed to be done, he insisted that everything was done properly and it was a problem on our end.
After some fighting with the moron, we got the ability to move the files up ourselves and low and behold, everything works fine now. But I don't know what I'm doing.. :)
Posted by doug at February 5, 2004 12:56 PMsounds like you may just need to lay low a moment and let them rediscover you're talent under more subdued circumstances.
butting heads will probably not get you the reputation for which you're looking.
i'm really trying to keep that under control myself. i'm not confrontational, but i think often i forget to consider my coworkers' strengths and opinions.
Posted by: john at February 6, 2004 10:27 AMI agree that butting heads is not going to get me anywhere, but I don't like not being respected. And it's not that I don't respect my co-workers opinions, it's that they seem to immediately dismiss my opinions as if I have no clue what I'm doing. It just gets old. I'm not sure what to do. I want to call them on their disrespect, but I know that will only make it worse for me. And I don't know how to approach it without it becoming an all out shouting match. Easy solution, find a new place to work :)
Posted by: doug at February 6, 2004 02:49 PM