What’s the proper way to reassign a particular task from on person to another. You tell the person losing that task first – get his feedback… right? In my years of experience, that’s been the norm.
I’m a network/security administrator at a medium sized agency. I was copied in on an e-mail from the boss to our helpdesk guy that he’s to take over running mail/web filter reports that get submitted to HR every week. That’s not a helpdesk function, and should remain in the realm of network security (which would be me). These reports contain _very_ sensitive information regarding employees (i.e., those who surf websites related to specific health or personal problems… one incident we had with a VP surfing kiddie porn, etc…). The less people who know these things – the better.
That’s one thing that I hate – when you find out a duty has been reassigned to someone and you find out by being CC’ed in the e-mail, rather than being approached first.
I fired off an e-mail back to my boss raising my objections. His response should be interesting.
Am I on the money here – or should I just be happy I have one less chore to worry about? I’d much rather I continue performing this task because the reports also help me analyze trends in mail/web usage, detect patterns of abuse and possible network security functions. Of course, I can always re-run the reports I need – but why duplicate the effort and have another set of much more inexperienced eyes on what could be very damning information?
