I don't' know about this guys

[Exterous]

I've been incredibly lucky over the last decade when it comes to bosses. At worst I had an average boss but one who basically let me do whatever I thought my team should do. At best was the 5 years with the best boss I've ever had. I've got a new one now though and I'm not sure about this. The organization went for less technical knowledge and more people pleasing and project management skills. Unfortunately in this job you sometimes need to tell people (nicely) they are wrong and that their idea is terrible (again nicely) but the new person wants to compromise and please everyone despite their bad ideas. Also getting up to speed on technical aspects is slow. We work with people who have Tier 2 and Tier 3 datacenters but to this person everything above a glorified comm closet is a datacenter. 15,000 sq ft facilities with flywheels, redundant main grid hookups, multi megawatts of power with N+1 or +2 generators to run the whole thing are still being lumped in with little 20kW rooms with with zero redundancy and consumer UPS' purchased from Newegg. You get people who work in the first into a room and you keep calling the second a datacenter and the look is....not good.

A couple years ago I heard the term "golden handcuffs" related to employers and their benefits and compensation but didn't really realize the impact until they started chafing my wrists recently. Might be time to update things and take a look around despite my concerns and discomfort doing that

 

[Captante]

I've done pretty well in the boss-department myself over the years.

It's been since the early 1990's since I escaped from the "Dragon-Lady" as we referred to her at the limo company I dispatched for back then. (to be fair she wasn't a bad person just a terrible boss)

To find the next incompetent a-hole I'd have to go back to literally a work/study job delivering appliances in HS. (in other words I've been VERY LUCKY!)

Nothing worse than dealing with a clueless and/or petty boss.

 

[brianmanahan]

i didn't know anyone dealt with datacenters anymore besides people working at AWS or azure

i've never been handcuffed enough to stay where i'm at, but have also been lucky with bosses who stay out of the way except to help remove roadblocks

 

[Captante]

i didn't know anyone dealt with datacenters anymore besides people working at AWS or azure

Data-Centers located in NJ

33 listed in NJ alone for example (chose this location since I used to do jobs for several located there) ... I'd guess many more still in operation where land for huge metal buildings is cheaper.

Somebody has to manage them no?

 

[Exterous]

i didn't know anyone dealt with datacenters anymore besides people working at AWS or azure

i've never been handcuffed enough to stay where i'm at, but have also been lucky with bosses who stay out of the way except to help remove roadblocks

Despite things like AWS Snowball, data proximity is a big issue especially given the state of our internet connections. So your research heavy institutions (Healthcare, Universities, large manufactures like Ford and GM) still tend to make rather large investments in running their own data centers

 

[Dr. Detroit]

I've valued my compensation over having great bosses. So long as they dont micromanage I've been able to educate bosses about my role and just get shit done without their supervision to keep things running smoothly.

The grass is not always greener and every company/bosses will have their issues.