I am an IT manager for a mid-size company. I also have a co-worker who is also an IT manager. We both specialize in certain areas, but have many similar responsibilities as well. Our primary offices are at different locations.
My co-manager is onvacation this week, so I am covering all network related problems for the whole company. One of our support techs called me with a problem. While assisting with troubleshooting, I discovered that my fellow manager has been, shall we say, less than responsible.
I discovered that he promoted a BDC to a PDC without telling me. He attempted to install a WINS server on a new server, also without telling me, and did not configure it properly. This led to resolution problems across the WAN (the problem the support tech called me about). I also found out that the daily backups have been crashing on one of our applications servers for almost a month (I am not going down for that one!) This is not the first time; problems such as these have been ongoing. He frequently neglects his responsibilites or passes them on to subordinates, does what he feels like rather than what he should be doing, and sometimes I simply take on some of his tasks myself, as they need to get done. I am on him constantly, but I can only push so far as we are “peers”. The only reason he obtained his position is out of loyalty by my company (he has been with the company the longest).
I have had it, and I am thinking of taking my documentation to the director because I fear something disasterous may happen and he may bring me down with him. However, the economy is slow, and I am not sure I can handle the guilt if I were to contribute to his termination.
How can I motivate him, especially if he is not my subordinate? Or should I go to the director and let things take their course?