u/HugeGuava2009

Me (42) am married for 8 years to my wife (34) and my wife hates my sister and brother in law.
i do not ever see this resolved. Things have been said where my wife cannot forgive.

I stand by my wife in her opinions but i have no quarrel with my sister or B.i.l. I have a very close relationship with my sister and friends. We can tell almost everything to each other.

I have very limited contact with any of my past friends because they are in that close circle. But every year we do have a weekend where i go alone. And those weekends are a ton of fun.
It is my friends group form where I grew up. Really close friends. We trust each other. Sometimes we do meet in a cafe or such. But I go always Alone.

I can live with that. But it is hard that my friends or sister are actually not welcome in hour house due to my wife. And I do not like that. But I understand.

I choose my wife off course. me and my friends all have their lives so it is not we see each other often.
But even if i want a bbq with my friends it’s a no go.
For me I struggle in accepting this sometimes.

Hi,

I'm an IT manager in a small/medium business (150ppl).
We have several external partners also franchise-like entities.

Communication at some departments is often organised via Whatsapp for external parters abroad who do not know any other options. Even privacy sensitive documents like ID's, driver licenses are sent via whatsapp. I told that this is not professional nor acceptable from a privacy/governance/policy point of view. I gave an alternative -> secure sharing via Sharepoint.

Management expect me (as IT support) to also communicate with these partners via 'my personal' whatsapp. I have a company phone + subcription that I also use privately.

I do not like this, because I think it's wrong and I do not want to use my personal whatsapp for business.
Also other things like, no loggin, audit trail, retention, gdpr ,... I suggest communication via business platforms in the future besides mail -> Microsoft Teams and only use whatsapp only as fallback.

I also said that It is ok to use it for now, but, I want it to change in the future. Management seems not really happy about this.

What do you think if I'm right about this or just making a fuz?

My boss (cfo and also it responsible) wants me (it manager) to give access to the voip admin portal to 2 colleguea of the accounting department. Purpose is so that they also can configure call forwarding for our offices in my absence.

As the only it guy we also work together with an. msp as it backup. But our cfo wants to avoid the cost so that we can manage this internally.

My advice for this is to not give access to crucial system for ppl with no It background or knowledge..
Also my boss is a good manager but has absolutely no IT insight or background… i mean she’s the cfo and on the directors board. She decides finally..

After pushing this through against my advice and explained the risks (ignored). I can make a procedure to make this work.
As long every action is logged to me. It maybe can work. It’s like there first will have to be a misconfiguration that causes a big problem before they will realize that you need the experienced professional for this task.

It still bothers me… because it’s not best practice. whats next ? making a sales person domain admin?

What are your opinions for this situation? I’m curious. Please advice me.