First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning?

An anonymous reader writes "When I was a wee-little IT Manager, I interviewed for a position at an online CRM provider in San Francisco, a job I certainly was qualified for, at least on paper. One of the interviewer's questions was 'What is the first thing you do when you get to work in the morning?' I thought saying 'Read Slashdot' wouldn't be what he was looking for — so I made up something, I'm sure, equally lame. I didn't get the job. But the question has stuck with me over the years. What do real IT and MIS managers do when they walk in to the office in the morning? What Web sites or tools do they look at or use the first thing? Remember, this is for posterity, so please be honest."

Comments

Re:Damn! I Want to Mod You Down!

[Telephone Sanitizer]

Your reply was completely wrong and your rant was irrelevant.

First of all, any good IT manager gets into the office before the receptionist does.

Second, if you have to single-out the female receptionist and only the receptionist to treat politely then you're a an infantile narcissist who's overcompensating for a misogynistic streak.

And you're a nincompoop.

Treat everyone in the office with a bit of respect and you won't need to schmooze the receptionist whenever you want to get something accomplished.

Re:Damn! I Want to Mod You Down!

[Tweekster]

That was by far, the most ignorant response on slashdot I have ever seen..

The receptionist is a key player, far more important that most managers in a building. He or she knows all, and usually they are nice people to talk to anyways because who else wants to do that type of job, and have to deal with the amount of crap.