Ask HN: Was hired to improve company's devops, founder won't listen to my ideas
So after two weeks, I got the approval to create a staging branch. I wrote up a huge document on the staging workflow, covering edge cases such as hotfixes and rollbacks. I put time on people's calendars and walked them through it including the founder. Yet he still continues to resist the change and pushes directly to master, ignores the new processes I put in place, and generally just does what he wants. He also keeps harping that I need to "earn his trust." I find this baffling - I mean, I was hired for a reason right? Why would they hire me if they didn't trust me?
I am starting to get frustrated, especially since the founder has pushed breaking changes directly to master and then I got flack since I am now the "systems" guy and am responsible for the health of the app. I'm trying to think of the best way to approach this diplomatically. Do any HNers have some pointers or advice to give? I've worked with difficult clients before but I've never faced such a huge lack of trust.