Help I'm surrounded by Accountants!

Ok, so I don't have anything really mind altering to say yet. The good news is its only 8:13 so that may change. Just wanted to get this thing started and chronicle what my life is like. This is going to be about a smaller IT operation. My company has only 23 employees and due to a partner leaving that number is going to drop to 20 by the end of the month. I am a one-man IT shop so I do a bit of everything. I am working on bringing some automation projects online to help everyone and to also help bring in and develop a consulting wing for the company.

Summer is the big project time here as certain things need to be accomplished before audit season (October-February) and then Tax season (January-April 15th). The big project of this summer is implementing a Document Management System, sandwhiched around a possible office remodel and move.

The number 1 issue I have around here is the glacial pace at which change is made. It sometimes takes weeks to get minor things agreed to and major projects takes months. I am working on make more independent decisions and reporting them in a "look what I have done" sense to help get around this but some items just can't be done that week. We'll see how that goes.

So my firm has gone through a split with a partner leaving effective as of yesterday.  I am currently going through our network files and seperating the departing partner's information from the rest of the data.  The process is slow to say the least and all I can do is sit here and wait (and well make a new blog entry about sitting here and waiting).  That and I get to look at my 20 step check list and see all the work I have to do. 

I have this feeling that I should say something profound in this blog, but well, my work just isn't that profound.  So there are some random ramblings while I keep the grumblings about my bosses to myself.  My feelings with my current bosses is that I need to push them on anything technology related.  And while that gives me the advantage of defining my job role it does leave me feeling like I am pushing the proverbial boulder up a hill side.  They are very change resistant and therefore changing anything becomes extremely difficult even when they are presented with great reasons to change.

I am going to use this split to help put some momentum behind the document management system project.  With a document management software solution, I could have done all this work in probably a few hours instead of the 3 days it is going to take me.  I could have grabbed all the documents in one swoop, copied them to the external hard drive and shipped them to the departing partner.  All done, all taken care of, and I can move on to other things.  But alas, no document management system so I do it by hand.  One system and one folder at a time.

Oh, only 25 emails to go in the first of 6 email backup runs. Guess I need to go make sure it finishes ok and setup the second run.  The boulder is only slightly smaller now.