I'm on call this weekend. And I've said for a while that my company does things wrong. And we've never done anything about it. I think this weekend was a tipping point. It was a point where I realized just how little progress had been made towards known and desired goals. There is nothing I can look at and say "yes, I have finished task X, Y, and Z. Nothing. Just a lot of mindless talk without real action.
So today, in the midst of being pissed at what little work had been done, I made a list. It's not the perfect list. Just a list of actions that need to be accomplished and processes to complete to turn our out of control IT department into something I can be proud of.
Kind of scares me, though. Thomas Edison said "Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work" and I think he's right. Correcting the course of this ship is going to take weeks of effort. Probably months or even years. But it will take a lot. But it needs done or nothing is ever going to change.
I already know the pace of growth isn't going to change. We've been told that it's not going to slow down, and it might even get worse. But I can't let that stop me. I've simply got to get moving and get working. You're either with me and you'll learn as I go, or you'll fail miserably. I don't really care which, because there is work to do and I'm not going to work for a two-bit operation. Not in the least.
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