Yea, my articles and time on JU has been curtailed.  For the first time since I joined, I am actually able to do my job without 'The Captain' or his Grima doing the finger pointing game!  So each day I work a hard day (sometimes 12 hours now), and I love it!

I would love to say that I have gotten more accomplished in the last week, than in the preceding 3 years, but that would be an exaggeration.  Not a big one!  Not by much.

Since his departure, I have managed to gain control of all the storage (I always had all the servers, but being Dell, they rarely need attention), and about 75% of the switches.  And working in conjunction with the "enemy", we have managed to isolate a circuit problem to the vendor (who continues to hem and haw, but we got the goods on them).

One of my co-workers is still in the defensive mode.  By that I mean, when you have such a lousy boss that you become afraid to try to fix problems for fear of succeeding, and he not knowing what you did, you stop fixing things.  Such is my co-worker now.  We can fix a user easily.  He refuses to.  While I have seniority on him, I do not have power over him.  SO I will do it.

I suspect that the 'cowed dog' attitude among my co-workers is going to take some time to dissipate.  I have seen it before.  And I hate it.  But I know many live that way.

Time to show these guys that we can do it, and we don't need "The Captain" to cover our puts (like a pair of pants with a split seem!).  So yes, it is tiring and stressful!

But I love it!