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Tech Vs. Business?
An anonymous reader writes "I've recently found a spot in a large company, and I'm noticing that here a lot of people on the technology side are very anti-business. Tech makes up about 40% of the total line of business staff, but the whole LOB is only a tiny percentage of the larger company in the financial industry. I personally haven't seen this before in prior jobs, but I'm told that this animosity is commonplace. So I come to Slashdot to find out if others have experienced this adversarial relationship between business and tech, and if so, what was the effect on the overall success of the business?"
So I come to Slashdot to find out if others have experienced this adversarial relationship between business and tech, and if so, what was the effect on the overall success of the business?"
Yes, it is extremely prevalent here! On the other hand, it doesn't seem to have had any negative effects. Actually, standing in the way of various technologies seems to have made our business more successful!
Opinions here do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, Exxon Mobile Corporation.
Netbooks, they come with Linux or a $3 copy of Windows. Either way, Microsoft loses.
I'd like to know what you mean by anti-business. Many suits have no knowledge of anything technical, and so make requests and demands that violate things like 'logic' and the laws of physics. When the tech staff attempts to point this out, they are often told that they are being needlessly obstructive. Pleas that it is the universe that is preventing them fall on deaf ears.
Is this what you mean? Is an insistence on following the laws of physics "Anti-Business"?
Prediction for end of Universe #42: Fencepost error in Quantum_bogosort.cpp
Since it's the financial industry you probably won't be working there long :P
Well, someone has to be there to shut off the servers and sell them for scrap on eBay...
What servers? We never had any servers *whistles nonchalantly while walking to brand new Mercedes*
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We can't all work for your parents.
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and be a helldesk is phenomenal.
I don't know exactly what a "helldesk" is, but I'm pretty sure I've had to call there a few times. There was always the faint odor of brimstone when I hung up the phone.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.