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Hunting Bad CIOs In Their Natural Environment

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the and-yet-we-still-can't-shoot-them dept.

onehitwonder writes "Bad CIOs are a blight on the IT profession, the organizations that employ them and the IT staff who toil under them (usually cleaning up their messes). Yet bad CIOs manage to migrate largely undetected — like the mythic Big Foot — from company to company. In the process, these bad CIOs lay waste to businesses and information systems, destroy staff morale, pillage budgets and imperil shareholder value. To help rid the world of this scourge, CIO.com has compiled a list of behaviors common among bad CIOs that recruiters, hiring managers and IT staff can use to identify them during the recruiting process."

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  1. Bad Sign #1 by Middle+-+Adopter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pointy hair

    1. Re:Bad Sign #1 by Pointy_Hair · · Score: 4, Funny

      +1 Informative

  2. Bad category? by JamesTRexx · · Score: 4, Funny

    It may be tagged humour, but I see too many signs pointing at our CIO... -.-

    Is it for sure that we can't shoot them?

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    1. Re:Bad category? by kryten_nl · · Score: 5, Funny

      They're certainly not an endangered species. So I would guess you _can_ shoot them. Inquire with your local LUG about the start and end dates of hunting season.

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  3. How to spot a bad CIO by jrothwell97 · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Keeps pressing the spacebar to get text centred in Word
    2. Insists on capitalising APPLEMAC, and spelling it all as one word, and saying that they're rubbish in comparison to Windows because there isn't as much software
    3. Asks "what's a linux?" and thinks Tux is vermin
    4. Thinks "sudo" is the command to launch the Sudoku game
    5. Actually believes M$'s and IBM's marketing rubbish and reads IBM's 'CIO thought leadership pieces' every night before going to bed
    6. Constantly sends you E-mails saying "omg bill gates will send u $1000000 if u pass this message to 85000 of ur friends in the next 10 seconds!!!!! omg omg lolz"
    7. Fails to find lolcats funny
    8. Thinks Whose Line Is It Anyway is a high-stakes dramatic game show
    9. Believes having defragged your hard drive once is a qualification to become CIO
    10. Probably has a private golf course
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  4. Bad Sign #2 by Torvaun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Keeps a cattle prod in his office.

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