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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?"
"...tech workers are looked down upon, because people only ever come to us when things go badly and most of us literally 'sit on our asses'..."
Niggers reading slashdot? Who knew?
..and the reason why nerds wind up saying "yes, sir, yes, sir" to the business people every time.
Technical elegance, freedom and openness, all of those things take a back seat to raking in the bucks to keep the business running.
Nothing says Pro-Business more than opening up the source code to your profit making software.