Is It Too Early To Evangelize?

My employer has an abnormally long (six months!) probationary period so its best not to make waves. The interesting thing, to me anyway, is that there are quite a number of fellow Mac evangelists in the company despite the Windows XP clampdown imposed by the “standards-based” individuals in my department.

Would you consider it a career limiting move to advocate for a larger Macintosh presence in an otherwise homogeneous network environment? I’ve thought about it for quite a while, even before I was officially hired, and came to the conclusion that advocacy was worth a shot. So tonight I wrote a long letter to the network administrator detailing how I can ensure that the Macs play nice in his domain.

This brazen cheekiness might not get me fired, but it won’t make me any friends either. More friends would be good at this point in my ersatz career.

…and it seemed that I made the guy mad this afternoon when I brought the whole thing up. Geez.

On thin ice,

bob

UPDATE: The answer is a resounding “yes, it is too early!” I received a reply to my suggestion that went something like this: “that’s a dumb idea and if you advocate for it I’ll fight you every step of the way, so drop it” So that’s that, I suppose. There I go thinking again.