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I had a job in an IT department once that maintained about 1500 systems in 4 different buildings in two towns. I was responsible for a month long project which required me to service about 1000 machines, wiping the drives on a lot of them, cloning them, and testing them. Also, this involved cleaning the fans and ensuring everything was in working order.
I had a hard drive clone machine that would format the drives and install the necessary software, depending on the machine and what it was used for, to where I just swapped some plugs and hit a button. I had 4 weeks, 8 hours a day 9-5 to do this job. I worked my ass off the first week and then projected out hte project and realized I would be done with everything sometime near the end of the second week.
I opted to stretch that job out over the entire month. I would go into a lab with about 30 machines, sit and slowly let each one format one at a time while I took another apart, all while watching DVD's like Superbad on the built in LCD projectors or on Smart boards. I was the only one in the buildings at these times except for some custodial staff possibly, so I didn't give a sh&%.
At the end of the day (month), the boss was happy, I was happy, and it was overall a pretty good way to spend my time. Would I have liked doing something a bit more involved? Sure, but that wasn't going to happen as the two jokers running this operation were not the smartest IT guys in the world, and I could have easily ran circles around them.
Legion it sounds like you got the sh*% end of a stick and are stuck because of other people not being as good at their job as they could/should be. Looks like you should be moving up to management and getting payed a good amount more if you know how to manage your part of the project that well.
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