Miles Neale (4/30/2013)
TravisDBA (4/30/2013)
A past boss of mine once told me once when I asked him what he expected from me as his main DBA and he told me something I have never forgotten since, and it was this. 'Travis, I expect you to take care of our multi-million dollar databases and protect them from getting trashed or compromised by anyone or anything, period. Because if we have not got our data we don't have S**t. I am not paying you the kind of money you are getting here to win a personality contest. You take care of business and those databases, that's your job, and if you ever need backup from anyone giving you static over that, then I am here for you."" He was a man of his word too, and I have never forgotten those words he told me either down through the years. 😀So the boss hired a person with personality and skills matching what the job required and backed him up. We need more bosses like this!
Miles,
He was a great boss too because he never once threw me under the bus. If someone complained to him about me being a bottleneck or not cooperative, he would say many times to other people: "Travis is my gatekeeper. His job is to protect our business data, period. That is what I pay him to do. He is not here to be your friend. If he told you NO, then he had a reason for it..." 😀
"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"