@neuralfraud said:
So I hope this post isn't somehow inappropriate, anyhow.
I'm the sysadmin for our company - the everything kind (windows, linux, network, db) but that isn't such a big problem in itself. We've had a major management overthrow and our old CIO is gone, replaced by a new VP and that person has brought in a old partner as the IT director. This IT director is the very same person who performed the audit of our department which resulted in my former boss kicked out of his department, but that's another WTF.
So this guy demands root/admin passwords, I comply out of respect for his position of course. I did ask him why he wanted the passwords, and he said "I'll be adminning too. I R smart!", so I've gone from the boss being a guy who stays out of our day to day business to a guy who wants to admin the server's the company pays me to admin!
He starts tinkering with the systems and messing with crap, snooping at log files, installing weird packages and asking me a ton of questions and that's kind of bothered me as it seems like he is spending an awful lot of time trying to understand each and every file, service, application, when he should be focusing on management as far as I'm concerned.
Worse yet, when he makes changes he does not tell me which seems disrespectful.
Looking to the TDWTF community for some sage advice if anyone is willing to comment on the situation.
He's a cowboy/lunatic/WTFer - each of the individual symptoms is inconclusive on its own, but what you have there is a syndrome. Run, run fast and run far - unless you're confident you can control him, bend him to your will, use him until he has no further use and then discard him like a used... Sorry, I was zoning out for a bit there. Did I miss anything?