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The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators
maffstephens writes "Have you noticed how difficult it's become to develop software? Not because software is more complex, but because there seems to be an army of administrators standing in your way - sys admins, network admins, database admins, runtime admins - the list is endless. They should be there to help us, to make our lives easier, but the reality is often very different. This thought-provoking article from Software Reality is all about the emerging culture of spiteful, dog-in-the-manger prevention amongst corporate IT administrators. Software development has become so inefficient as a result, it's no wonder so many companies are outsourcing."
Its always cheaper to hire and overwork an Indian or Chinese than to hire a typical snobby White American Male who will want overtime pay and a fair wage. Think about it, if you wanted to save money would you really hire your own? Hell no.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
Politics and the work climate. Nowadays, admins know they can lose their job at the drop of a hat, and as such, they're getting a lot more defensive. Particularly with programmers whose systems might make their jobs a whole lot easier, making them more replaceable!
And we need to just get rid of the whole system of labor and give all of you lazy American workers temp jobs. You idiots are too busy playing politics when you could be working. Maybe if you worked harder and developed better code than people in India you'd keep your job.
I don't see Indians being hired for game development and perhaps this is because game developers actually write programs that everyday joes dont write. Maybe you should brush up on your calculus and get a job at NASA or learn a bit about AI and work on something more innovative.
Anyone can make a Winamp/Mozilla/(insert easy to write open source app)
But most people cannot write a 3d engine, a kernel of the quality of the Linux kernel, an xfree86.
If you want your jobs, learn to work harder and longer hours, or work smarter.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
If you cant work harder than Indians and Chinese why do you deserve the jobs? I mean damn, maybe if you were as smart or as hard working as others you'd never have to worry about being fired. Bosses do not fire people who are productive, stop taking lunch breaks, start working 12-13 hour days, work 6-7 days a week, and stop taking damn coffee breaks. Work 12-13 hours straight with no breaks, code as much as possible within that time frame. The people who code fastest in the least amount of time should keep their jobs and the ones who only write a few hundred lines should be fired immediately.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
Admins: an army of uneducated overbearing people. And now they won't let us do our jobs. If ever there was a case for anarchism, the existence of admins is it.
You can either work with us, and clearly communicate to OUR supervisors(not just us) what your needs are...or you can make us the enemy, always try to do things half-assed, and get nothing done.
As a developer and consultant, I've worked in a lot of environments for a lot of companies, all falling at different points on the admin nazi scale. I've worked in environments were I was expected to do microsoft development without having an admin account on my own machine. I have no problem when admins come to me and say, "You can use that machine you found in the closet for an extra test box, but we're not going to support it." It's when they try to protect me from myself to the point of ridiculousness that I take exception. In those cases, I simply document the obstruction and keep billing.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
You, sir, are a BOFH (google for it). Get a clue, before you get thrown out on your ass. Your bugaboo about developers having (gasp) root access on dev/testing boxes is costing your company serious money while developers contort their architecture to cope with your control fantasies. Grow up.
If you're trolling, then congratulations, but I've dealt with sysnazis before.
Remain calm! All is well!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thank you, this thread has been way to serious, I needed a good laugh. With a year of training by a good mentor you probably could do the job pretty well, but not before.
- RustyTaco