> We had the seniority to tell the administrator what his priorities were; > we defined his job and had him document any new processes we hadn't > already documented as we set things up. > >> If I had a quarter for every question that I answered with "Did you > read the email I sent out about this yesterday/last week?", I could > retire early. > > We might have retired you early if you came to us as an administrator > with that attitude, and you'd be looking for those quarters still.
I suspect you work in a very different environment than I do. Fortunately, I work for more level-headed people who expect me to understand their business and provide the business tools needed, while protecting business assets from the users' whims. This place was self-administered when I got here and was a raging mess. I was brought in to bring order to their chaos. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************