Rusted Sky

Yet, it looks like I'm going to be embroiled in them. We have three guys (of which I'm one) which work separately from the main group. The other two guys kick ass at their jobs - me, I'm their slacker supervisor (heh) who also has to clean out spyware and viruses on from 80-250 machines a day. We stay fairly busy - we're good at what we do.

However, the two guys had to go on vacation this year for varying reasons. And they had subs come in from the main group, who treated their work as a holiday from their regular jobs doing service calls. This lasted a week.

It took two weeks to clean up the resulting problems from their mistakes.

We didn't say much of anything about it at the time - one of the guys was a friend of the boss out here, and made comments about how he wanted to get one of the regular guys fired (presumably so he could take over the job), and we all discussed things afterward and figured there wasn't any point in getting into a pissing contest with the main group - but now our contract's come up for examination/renewal, and there's talk about rotating out the two guys who really know the job and replacing them with inexperienced ones.

This isn't a good thing, not with the contract coming up. It wouldn't be a good thing at any point - because it would really mess things up trying to get the job done. But we're always under examination here - and to suddenly start botching up the job wouldn't do much to make for a happy customer.

So I find myself in the really uncomfortable place of having to explain to management why something the boss seems to want is a bad idea. I'm collecting numbers and such to support it - but I sure wish I didn't have to.

*Update* - It went better than I expected. Apparently the talk of rotation is just that. We'll see what happens, but for now, things aren't going to change.

J.