Maintenance is so booooooooooring -Reply -Reply

[Dan Lester]

>>> Sheryl Dwinell <dwinells at vms.csd.mu.edu> 08/15/97
10:38am >>>
>There are MANY advantages in not being in charge, not
>controlling, not being the boss.  "t'aint my problem"

I can see your point of view, however, I look at it from the
users perspective. It takes me about 10 min. to delete the
deadlinks. I'm doing it for the users, not for the page creator's
or my own benefit.  The user doesn't care about whatever
internal crap is going in on in terms of who is taking care of
their pages or who isn't. 
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I agree with that, but if I tried to do everything that I thought
the users need, I'd need to clone myself several times.  Since
I'm more than webmaster (I also do CD for four depts, all
library computer training and planning, work 5 hours a week
at Reference, am involved in general administration, etc), I've
finally had to accept that I can't do it all in the 50-60 hours a
week I work.
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Perhaps I'm doing too much, but I care about how our library
is represented in the online world, so I'm willing to do the
extra work.
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That's great, and I'd never knock it.  One thing I've learned
over the years is that individuals' priorities change depending
on the job, the manager, the place they are in life (age, kids
or not, married or not, other interests and activities), and so
forth.  And only you can decide when too much is too much.

cheers

dan