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Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that new research is suggesting as many as a quarter of all IT staff in small to medium businesses have suffered some sort of abuse and are looking for careers elsewhere (PDF). "The study also found that over a third have suffered from sleepless nights or headaches as a result of IT problems at work, while 59 percent spend between one and 10 hours a week working on IT systems outside normal hours. ... The biggest cause of stress among IT staff is problems arising from operational day-to-day tasks, the survey found. Another major cause came from loss of critical data, according to Connect."
The study also found that over a third have suffered from sleepless nights or headaches as a result of IT problems at work, while 59 per cent spend between one and 10 hours a week working on IT systems outside normal hours. [...] The biggest cause of stress among IT staff is problems arising from operational day-to-day tasks, the survey found. Another major cause came from loss of critical data, according to Connect."
holy Jesus, that's some bad grammar
I think all you "abused" IT people should go to an actual abuse support group and tell them what a hard life you all have. You're all adults. If you don't like it, then grow a pair and don't put up with it. This is a bit like the old saying, 'you cant rape the willing'
I set that shit up so it does fall over. then I go home and tap my wife in the pooper. We call it, probing the network.
Multiple Sclerosis certifications more valuable than a Doctor's ? Never!
If I am called "honey" by a middle-aged woman working in HR one more time, I may go postal. (Not currently working in a big metal box means the odds are slim. But there is always a chance.) Did you know that in California, it's sexual harassment if a man leans over a woman at her desk, but not if a woman leans over a man and hangs her tits in his face? Fascinating stuff. No wonder there's so much misogyny, it's encoded in law.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It's really not that hard. Granted, Exchange is a bit of a beast to install and manage initially, but once everything is set up and the other servers know each other it works pretty poorly
. Exchange 2007 has some pretty unfortunate mis-
features ...
There fixed that for you.
You shills never get tired of fiddling with the definition of "works". Sure if you ask the embedded sales team pushing the M$ junk in your organization, they'll say it works great, has wonderful uptime, is low maintenance, etc. Then if you ask the afraid-for-their-jobs non-management staffers that are stuck using it the same questions, they'll agree -- until you change the questions. Q: How often is the Exchange server down? A1: several times a day for both scheduled and "unscheduled" rebooting. A2: once or twice a month for extended period while the server is rebuilt. Q: How much mail is lost? A: Double digit percentages, at least. Q: Does turning off the spam filter help reduce the lost messages as the MSFT boosters claim? A: No. Q: Can you connect to the server with other browsers or other clients? A: No.
So really, what level of failure is acceptable?
C'mon it's 2009 and no one is gullible enough to fall for that same old line about "knowing" how to set up MS Exchange: it simply can't happen. You can send people to training, hire "experts", rent consultants, buy extra servers and pay for expensive upgrades but at the end of the day it, like all other M$ products, fails to deliver. Anyone who has ever actually honestly tried to use or maintain the crap that is MS Exchange, can see that. It's testable, repeatable, and consistent -- year after year.
Individuals have almost infinite capacity to accept and put up with awful conditions. Unfortunately institutions and businesses quickly reach a threshold, that once crossed, brings collapse. To MSFTers, lost mail may be funny ("only old people use e-mail") and useful by putting the staff into the easily manipulated crisis management mode. However, to real staff, lost messages mean delay (cost overruns), lost opportunities (lost income), decreased productivity (potential vicious circle of decreased productivity and stress) and, last but not least, wasted effort (unnecessary cost increase, demoralization).
The Bush administrated created this current economic depression, but MS products are making it worse than it needed to be.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.