A green office politics mistake

by admin on 31/05/10 at 1:10 pm

A few years back in the office — a high tech­nol­ogy startup –secu­rity, IDS.…, i was asked by one of the cus­tomer a major impor­tant fea­ture in the soft­ware which was not included.

That feture is know to be a hard one to develop and requires addi­tioanl task force which to com­pany didn’t had in that time.

So, in ealry dicus­sion i got a direct anser from the PS group that that fea­ture will not be included in the next 2 years.

OK.…i thought to my self . now what? in my stub­born think­ing i knew and still think so that that fea­ture is a must because it will bring more con­vi­nence to every body, and amaz­ingly every­body think that also, but due to cash.….

so, one call to a major cus­tomer, ask­ing him to send a request email to that fea­ture, telling that if he will not have it he will lost his clients and this will affect our comany also.….

i was try­ing to use him as a lev­erge to oper­ate my plan to pro­mote the devel­op­ment of the feature.

funny what IT work­ers deals with right?

So, i got the mail i told him to write and i sent it to the R&D VC.
Now, that guy is a smart with behavoir of a donkey.he never talk with any­one ecx­pert a two or three devel­op­ers who worked with him in pre­vouse com­pany, and he never answers mails.

The sec­ond fact i wansnt aware of althouth i should have detect it from the first fact.

i waited one month for an answer: you know, either yes yes, or no no.But noth­ing! like he is ignor­ing evertyhinh.

My sense’s didnt alerted me for what was com­ming.
i totaly for­got about it, and after few month i got a call from comany VC.
He asked me about the fea­ture request.

“mmmm, i totally dont know.i sent it to your VC R&D but never got answer” i replied.

“WHAT?!!!!!!!” i got yell in my ear

There is somet­ing i for­got to write: the VC R&D was 1 room next to me.

So, the bot­tom line was that i got the blame for not answer­ing the mail.What i should have done was going directly and ask him face to face for the answer in that some day

somhow i knew he will not answer because he knows that a no answer will make him and the com­pany looks bad.so he pref­ered let­ting me answer it know­ing i am only pion in this game.if i answer, the cus­tomer know i answered accor­ing to the com­pany agenda and he will con­tact directly the VC, Skip­ping the R&D VC.

Ohh, and he was a lawyer also.

so, that was roocky mis­take which the out­come of my actions was writ­ten on the wall yet i closed my eyes, think­ing that at con­fronta­tion time, i will be favoured.
How wrong i was.

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