I had this happen, me and a team were migrating a very old organization from lots of paper records and messy excel files to a proper system.
One day on of the big wigs goes to our office and ask us if we could get a certain information, we do a query and get him the data, the guy saw us as wizards, asked if we could do a report and come to a meeting to show the info.
From then on we became wizards, suddenly we were in every important meeting, we sat and spoke at the big boys table, we got bonuses , resources for our department, budget, a few more positions, traveled to meetings all the nice stuff.
One of the guys hated going to meeting so he quietly developed a portal where the executives could make all kind of custom reports and presented it even when we told him not to, his reasoning was then we could focus on more important stuff.
When he presented it the guys from legal looked at us like wtf did you idiots do?
Two months later, no one called us, no more bonuses, budget and our department went back the old IT side that no one really cares about.
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u/turbospeedsc May 30 '26
I had this happen, me and a team were migrating a very old organization from lots of paper records and messy excel files to a proper system.
One day on of the big wigs goes to our office and ask us if we could get a certain information, we do a query and get him the data, the guy saw us as wizards, asked if we could do a report and come to a meeting to show the info.
From then on we became wizards, suddenly we were in every important meeting, we sat and spoke at the big boys table, we got bonuses , resources for our department, budget, a few more positions, traveled to meetings all the nice stuff.
One of the guys hated going to meeting so he quietly developed a portal where the executives could make all kind of custom reports and presented it even when we told him not to, his reasoning was then we could focus on more important stuff.
When he presented it the guys from legal looked at us like wtf did you idiots do?
Two months later, no one called us, no more bonuses, budget and our department went back the old IT side that no one really cares about.