Sharing IT Problems with Executives?

dicey asks: "Later this week all of the IT department at my company (50-80 people) is having a dinner with the company President and VP/CIO. One major reason for this is so that they can get a better understanding of what is going on in IT and how it impacts the company overall. Ideally, with the ideas and sharing, these guys will have a better appreciation for us, adjust our budgets appropriately, and help us in our business. However, many of us are wary to speak about what is going on because it will inevitably reveal problems with the company. We are worried about what we discuss coming back to our directors ultimately to bite us. I am curious what my fellow Slashdot readers have done in similar circumstances, where there is a great chance to let someone high up in your company know of problems so that they can be rectified, but whereby revealing them you may get hurt in the process."

Comments

Wow!

[The Spoonman]

Where do YOU work? Here in the US, you pretty much described the job environment for 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999% of all companies. It would be nice if it were true that going to another company would solve these problems, but they'll most likely exist there, as well. It's simple: the problems with most companies is management, and they don't want to hear that. It's human nature, everyone thinks they're doing a great job. No, the problems are always the economy, 9/11, or too many obese children. If you complain as such, you're an unappreciative whiner.

My advice to the Asker: suck up and deal, win the battles you can, and then come to my site and tell the world about those you didn't! LOL!

Sorry, didn't MEAN for this to become about my site. ;-)