One Terrible Job: IT Manager

editingwhiz writes "I suppose we've always suspected this to be true, but IT Manager's Journal reports that a recent email survey by the authors of a new book called 'Crap Jobs' says that IT managers have the U.K's third-worst job -- ranking just below phone sex operator (No. 1) and ferry cabin cleaner (No. 2). Hmmm. Do you agree?" (ITMJ, like Slashdot, is part of OSTG.) Maybe it's better in the U.S.?

Comments

Disagree

[dustinbarbour]

I'm an IT manager and I can think of numerous jobs that are worse than mine.

• Fast food manager
• Garbage man
• "appointment setter"
• door-to-door sales
• ...

The list is almost endless. I dare say that IT manager is one of the btter jobs currently available. Yes, it has it's stresses, but certainly not third worst. Who funds these studies, anyway?

IT managers have the worst jobs...

[Tim C]

...because they have to stare at the it.slashdot.org colour scheme all day!

Re:I don't agree

[DA-MAN]

Why on earth would anyone take a job as a deodorant taster? What possible good could tasting deodorant do? And why would it be tasted in the armpit? Why not from the dispenser? That's just an appalling career, and it sickens me. That's even worse than my career as an IT Manager.

Perhaps you misread parent poster, but he said tester, not taster. In the deoderant field there are testers to make sure that the deoderant is strong enough to counteract the stenches produced by some humans out there.

Such tests consist of putting fat asses on a treadmill with the deoderant in their pits, lettin em go at it as long as they can and then sniffing their pits. If smell is less than deadly, the product goes to market else it's back to the ol' drawing board.