I’ve run into a slight dilema at work the other day.. and I have no clue what I should do. I’m basically a support tech, but as its a small company I do some of the networking things and I also help Marketing with graphics. Now, on Tuesday the network went down for some reason. I was troubleshooting someone’s computer (they could not access any resources on the server) and I tested 4 different Cat-5 cables in the wall patch. Nothing worked, so I said I think it might be the panel itself. After that some other PCs started messing up so we had to reboot all the servers.
Anyways, I’ve now become a scapegoat of sorts. The owner of the company (not my immediate boss, but the big boss) has blamed the network failure on ME (his exact words in an email to my boss was something along the lines of I “crashed the network because he was not doing what he was supposed to be doing.” So apparantly I’m incompetant.
To make things worse, the VP said he tried the panel and it worked fine, so I must have not plugged the cable in all the way (right.. its a Cat-5 cable, I’m not completely stupid). My own boss didn’t believe me when I said I tried 4 cables, and he says its because I help Marketing when “We hired you to be our networking guy”. So I’m basically in the doghouse and getting the blame for something that was not at all my fault. What should I do?? Jobs are scarce here, especially since I only have like two and a half years IT experience (and over a year of that was volunteering at the college where I got my degree), although I do have my A+ and MCP. I just am completely ticked off at the fact I’m being blamed AND called incompetant, but it looks like I dont have any choice in the matter.