Also chitchat has no records, only emails count when your boss is pushing you in front of the bus because he fucked up big time. How many time have I seen people say “I never said that you’re lying” when their little project failed…
Exactly!
I was accepted a proposed timeline based on promised resources, which I never got.
And when shit hit the fan, they just said, but it’s your timeline?!
That was the point, where I promised myself, I’ll do nothing important anymore on the phone, because I’ll need written evidence.
And just a few months later, I was in that exact position, where I was blamed that something wasn’t ready, which was promised to the customer.
But as I had everything written in mails, what I’ve promised to accomplish, I could show, that everything there was actually finished and only the stuff managers promised, which I have objected to, was just horse shit.
Can’t trust anyone.
They will act friendly on the phone, just to throw you under the bus, when the heat comes up.
I love my coworkers but I’ve been bitten in the past and now I only trust emails, even for small projects and even if I can’t be fired.
In the past, the CTO of a company destroyed the Linux servers by putting random commands in bash (he only knew Windows). They tried to put the blame on me, I printed all the emails where I warned them that it was the worst idea ever and said something like “you suck, it’s your fault, don’t try to sue me, I quit.” There is no need to put your whole life (personal and money) in danger because one idiot cannot do his job.
Also chitchat has no records, only emails count when your boss is pushing you in front of the bus because he fucked up big time. How many time have I seen people say “I never said that you’re lying” when their little project failed…
Exactly!
I was accepted a proposed timeline based on promised resources, which I never got.
And when shit hit the fan, they just said, but it’s your timeline?!
That was the point, where I promised myself, I’ll do nothing important anymore on the phone, because I’ll need written evidence.
And just a few months later, I was in that exact position, where I was blamed that something wasn’t ready, which was promised to the customer.
But as I had everything written in mails, what I’ve promised to accomplish, I could show, that everything there was actually finished and only the stuff managers promised, which I have objected to, was just horse shit.
Can’t trust anyone.
They will act friendly on the phone, just to throw you under the bus, when the heat comes up.
I love my coworkers but I’ve been bitten in the past and now I only trust emails, even for small projects and even if I can’t be fired.
In the past, the CTO of a company destroyed the Linux servers by putting random commands in bash (he only knew Windows). They tried to put the blame on me, I printed all the emails where I warned them that it was the worst idea ever and said something like “you suck, it’s your fault, don’t try to sue me, I quit.” There is no need to put your whole life (personal and money) in danger because one idiot cannot do his job.