Sharing IT Problems with Executives?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 19, 2004 @12:28PM from the doing-your-job-and-not-getting-fired-in-the-process dept.

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."

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gather intelligence while ye may by longarm · 2004-01-19 17:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Your corporate people are looking for changes to make. Why not converse with them and see what they are? Prople will normally tell you what they want if you can resist the terrible temptation to interrupt them with vital news about yourself. It wouldn't hurt if you had a good suggestion for improving something which did not contain negative comments on what (or who) was the evil party responsible. It always helps to look cool.