These past few days have been stressful ones. Working late because of system implementation. I designed the system from scratch and asked our developers to develop it. And as usual, first version of any system gives you the most headache. Things get worse when I am supposed to handover the system to them. There is this blardi old guy working in IT department and I am supposed to work with him. From the beginning of this project, he was already unhappy with me because I didn't involve him in the design phase...What the heck...This old guys is too proud to work under me, he has no initiative to attend my meetings...I am the project leader, so I decide who comes on board and who gets left behind. So obviously, I left him alone.
One month ago, a lot of people began to see amazing stuff my system can do. They like the system, but it is not yet stable. Then comes my boss saying that my time is almost up, I need to jump to another "ship" and start the engine (Another equally project). And I should delegate current project wrap-up to someone else. And of course, whoever is the most free in IT will have to wrap-up my project...and it is the old guy.
So, now this old guy and I have a lot of meetings. Do you know that there is one type of person in this world who only knows how to critisize, but never suggest a better idea???? He is exactly that type of person. He will only complain and complain. I can't understand why this company can have this type of old IT people. The closest fight that we had was 2 weeks ago. I was totally disagreed with his idea of integrating an external system to my system and I suggested another better solution for long term. We argued and argued, but I always stayed calm because I know my solution will beat his solution flat...In the end, he gave up and said "Hendi, your solution made my stomach sick!". Of course, I asked which part of my solution made his stomach sick. Then meeting adjourned. This is a typical problem for me. I am a new guy here and it's hard to get someone paying attention to my idea.
But as you know, I never gave up. I knew another IT person who is in charge of the external system. I told him my idea over the lunch. Then I modify my idea a little bit and at first, he shot down my new idea because of cost factor. But in the end, I told him that the old guy idea will cost the same as mine, just that my idea only needs one time integration work. His idea will need 2 times integration work when system changes.
In the end, I won...But as usual, older employees will never admit it. Every time, we have a meeting about the integration work, they will never ever mention that it's my idea. But oh well, IT people knows this is not their idea. It's from me, a plant engineer...
