Beginning Anew

I don't know how many times in my life I have said this phrase. It is one of the few exceptions to my "don't speak in third person rule".

I am by no means an expert on all things. I have a subset of knowledge on a few topics that I am confident with.

Today's example:

Yesterday, I sent an e-mail. It essentially says: "Effective immediately, everyone should log off each evening and log on each morning. " This is a simple request. I did not state my reasoning, because I shouldn't have to, and if I did no one would get it. I set IT policy. It is my job.

So this morning, I have a co-worker ask "Doesn't it automatically log you off anyway?".... *Slaps forehead (but not in her presence)* "No... that's why I asked you to do it".

This leads me through a conversation that results in the realization that 3 employees are working an old version of the database, because they did not follow my instructions. You see, this morning when they logged on (or were supposed to log on) a new fileserver came online. It is faster, and more reliable than the old one. But some of them said "Oh this request to log off doesn't apply to me... i'll ignore it." So they lost an hours worth of work this morning, and it would have been more if someone hadn't asked me about why they need to log off.

Is it really so hard???

Nobody listens to me.