A Question of Ethics

[catscradle]

So I'm reading over e-mails and come across one from my boss asking me to contact Mike in UTS and get trained on Oracle and SSH. Thus proving that my boss has no clue on anything I do that's remotely tech related. It's like asking someone to go to med school to learn how to put on bandaids. All I need to do is give certain students access to oracle. SSH is just a secure shell client that allows me to perform that function. After that it's a matter of knowing a few unix commands. Basically the skills I need to do this are the ability to read, the ability to manage 15 minutes of my time, and the ability to follow instruction. Understanding the ins and outs of oracle are not required for what our office needs it for.

Now the question is, do I take a few days off work and tell her that I'll be in training all day to learn Oracle, or do I just make her believe I'm that much of a genius and picked up on my own?

Comments

TAKE THE DAY

[http://users.livejournal.com/_darlingnicky_/]

Are you kidding? the way you've been treated lately? Take the days. Take a week. It's the Scotty principle from Star Trek. Overestimate everything by 2/3 so when you pull it off you're a genius.

Re: TAKE THE DAY

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I"m starting to think that might be the way. And I have more training coming up at the end of October for some new university software. Woohoo!

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the time my boss at the state public health agency sent me to 2 full days of ArcView GIS training at the Atlanta Regional Commission. I'm sure it set the dept. back a couple thousand dollars but she was like "Oh, you might have to do some maps!" While it's true GIS stuff is fun, I'm a web designer, not a data mapper. What was really funny somehow after that class, my name got on some GIS mailing list and then I was entered into a give-away and won a piece of $1000 GIS software. If I'd sold it faster, I would've made some money but by the time I thought of eBay it had devalued.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Ha! This is all the more funny since one of the programs I work with is GIS and they're doing give-away stuff to increase enrollment. But it's typical when you go to those events that your information is shared with recruiters. I was pretty appalled to find out that all the inquiry information we were getting in wasn't from people that expressed interest in the school, but just happened to show up at the same huge event we were recruiting at. Our Enrollment Director was totally skewing the inquiry numbers by participating in the grab-all-the-names-you-can-and-run mentality. We were up by something like 2500% while actual enrollments dropped. Somehow he got a promotion out of that while people doing actual work were laid off...

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

A question of ethics in YOUR office?

Take the days off.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much my assessment as well ;)

[gimme-that.livejournal.com]

Take the days off! Go to the movies. Remember what Napoleon said "From the sublime to the ridiculous is merely a step." :-)

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

So true, so true. *looks up move schedule online*