johnpalmer

After having him work 24 hours of overtime, leaving the colocation center to go home, and then go straight to the airport (*after* stopping by work to drop off equipment...), so that he's tired and stressed, comes back in four days to hear that everyone has ideas about how to fix the SQL Server - what's *WRONG* with the SQL Server? No one wants to say, but they're *ALL* sure they know how to fix it, and none of this "what do you think of this suggestion?" crap, nosireebob, they go straight to the "why don't you do this?"

Anyway, after all that, and he's feeling underappreciated, and *HIS* ideas make the SQL Server work quite nicely, thank you very much - Did anyone notice, or give any indication of caring? 'course not....

Anyway, *AFTER* all that...

*DO NOT* have him find out that it apparently takes more than entering more hours in the time entry system to get paid for the extra hours.

Or to get compensatory time off for the hours, if he's salaried.

Or to get a "Thanks, sucker, we really appreciate your doing all that work for free, and we'll be sure to include it in your performance review, if and when you ever get one of those".

I'm starting to realize that my not liking my job is going a bit deeper than I'd originally thought. I hope things change.