YAY -t!

javachik, I've applied my extensive internet debating skillz to the confidentiality issue, and here's the answer: If you stamp confidential on a page that already says confidential, then clearly you have no expectation of confidentiality based on the word confidential on that page.

¡Quod erat voila!

Can someone tell me the name of the boyish blond gladiator in the first season of Spartacus? I don't want to risk spoiling myself by looking too hard.

The shit that got me in trouble at work was hearing word of a director trying to push a change through that observed none of our controls--not of code, architecture, or security. So I called a meeting on someone else's project that had ground to a standstill because I have the relationship with the business user, and because I'm the SME on the application used as the back end.

I tried to get one of the managers to stipulate controls over the platform for which he is responsible, but he demurred, saying it wasn't his place. IT IS ABSOLUTELY YOUR PLACE. And as much of a lowly maggot I am, I'm still calling that out--the director said he'd take care of security, and he managed to completely forget to mention the component of the application that waved the security red flag.

So I waved it. IT STILL IS MY PLACE.

Why am I in trouble? Because when I told the manager he had a task that needed to be started right away, he asked if I'd start the paperwork, meaning I'd be up for the deployment in the wee hours of the morning, whereas I only meant I'd get the paperwork in under the wire, and the work part was in the hands of the platform owner.

Apparently that's too much like telling him what to do, BUT I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS APPLICATION other than having seen a number of flagrant risks in it.

Me and the other manager usually get along just fine. No idea why he had to complain about me behind my back, but my ex-manager does actually agree it's not supposed to be my job, even if I have to see this bit through.

-t, that's awesome, congrats! Get plenty of sleep, adjust to the new routine, and a bazillion new passwords....

Oh, and in a post with no whining: CONGRATS, -t!

ita, good lord. I don't understand why you're being expected to do your old *and* your new job. That's absurd. And does this mean you do have to be awake in the wee hours for the deployment, because that doesn't seem fair at all.

and a bazillion new passwords....

Oh, yeah, already have the Evernote notebook set up.

I hope it blows over, ita, and those ita-will-do-it-she-can-do-anything expectations won't rear their heads again. Or not too often, at least. Jeesh.

Congratulations, -t!!!

Congratulations, -t! Brava on the new job!

I haven't yet begun to relax enough to think about the job situation much. Although I do have one firm who wants to know if I'm willing to go back to work for my just-former employer in Miami, DC, or Seattle for two years. And another one who wants to know if I'd be willing to go to the UK to work on a high-speed rail project for a couple of months at a time for the next year or two.

Neither of those are hard offers, but they're both encouraging. Although frankly the UK sounds far more appealing than DC, I must admit...

ita, that situation is fucked up.

Consuela, glad you have some solid bites.

My cats are sleepy piles of cuddles. I approve.

Waiting to see what stormin' we get.