I am sure many before me have posted a comment similar to what I am about type. I am a network administrator for a small company. I am currently wrapping up school and some certifications, but have been a tech-head for a while. My main focus and expertise lies in networking, where my boss is a programmer that has picked up bits and pieces of networking along the way. To give you an idea of his knowledge base, when asked whether the network was subnetted, he asked what a subnet was. My problem is that I see a lot of things that need to be done on the network, but he will not let me do it. For instance, our Exchange Server has about 50MB of free space left on the drive, and e-mail keeps crashing. My boss won’t let me delete unnecessary files to free up the space (we have photoshop installed on the server for some reason), nor will he take any action himself. How do I deal with a boss that is for the most part less knowledgeable than I and a bit of a control freak?
