IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low

cweditor writes "IT job satisfaction has plummeted to a 10-year low, according to a recent survey. Another on general job satisfaction rated IT a paltry 45%. From the article: 'The CEB's latest survey found that the willingness of IT employees to "exert high levels of discretionary effort" — put in extra hours to solve a problem, make suggestions for improving processes, and generally seek to play a key role in an organization — has plummeted to its lowest levels since the survey was launched 10 years ago.'"

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Ron Paul

[BitHive]

You forgot to blame fiat money. Also, you need to whine more about how nobody takes Austrian economics seriously.

Re:Bad Economy = Bad Management

[cyphercell]

Personally, after getting into IT I was fairly surprised at what a piece of shit our product is. It's important and super cool futurismo when tech works, but the fact is that the shit falls down every time you look at it wrong. Compounding this problem is the core of any activity has been consolidated around the super efficient desktops, servers, and networks that fail catastrophically on a somewhat regular basis. I really blame software, the whole market is a huge mess, I really like the car analogy that all software is like a used car, it might have an air conditioning knob, but that doesn't mean you have AC. The amount of time regular IT folks spend battling drm and licensing restrictions for valid uses alone is staggering. The whole damn mess is just one patch and kludge on top of the next. You can rail about best industry standards all day, but really every single little device we use deserves it's very own little disaster recovery plan and at that point you hit diminishing returns and a workload that quickly approaches the infinite.

The only things in IT that are even remotely robust and reliable require a lot of work and a very focused business case (banking, website, etc). And even at this level one failure is worthy of the front page of the local newspaper (lost SSNs, credit card #s). Then there's the pay and the outsourcing, also incompetence is practically indistinguishable from competence unless you really assess the situation. Simple problems are often overly complicated and vice versa.