This reminds me of the fight I had to hire an Infrastructure Engineer (they call them DevOps, these days).
It was like pulling teeth, but, in fairly short order, the chap I hired became the most popular member of the team.
It was like pulling teeth, but, in fairly short order, the chap I hired became the most popular member of the team.
And our toolchain... put it this way. We went from no documented procedures, to several. And the several... have no date, no version, no author, no revision control...
Friday is my last day. I am so happy.
The official request I made said the server would pay for itself in eight weeks. I think the boss finally understood why I was being so grumpy about it at that point. Or maybe you could just trust the people you claim to trust.
I'm so sorry to inform you, but you have management written on you.
(But in all seriousness, communication is an important management skill, it's good you explained it so directly, but ideally a manager would communicate back-and-forth without needing to be spoonfed all at once.)