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IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept.

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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  1. What... by i58 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean a career in IT isn't about reading /. all day? Man, this sucks!

    1. Re:What... by phissur · · Score: 2, Funny

      It is if you like getting paid in mod points.

  2. Re:ManicMonkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't knock it. All games of bullshit bingo depend on the untrained monkey CIO cycle (or UMCC as we call it).

  3. Re:No more working for the man by maestroX · · Score: 5, Funny

    No kidding. I saw this news item on a guy in san carlos who took out a 1.3million dollar mortgage based on his startup salary. Beyond my lack of comprehension for how he could possibly cover the payments on a startup salary, he apparently didn't consider the risks very carefully, and as it would happen, the startup went belly up. Now he wants people to pay his mortgage for him

    I seen this one shit on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick.

    Some dude was drunk and drove his mortgage over the top

    And had his startup in the trunk and she was pregnant with his debts

    And in the car they found a tape but it didn't say who it was to

    Come to think about it...his name was...it was you.

    Damn.

  4. Re:Bad Economy = Bad Management by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    But all that "person to person" stuff is work! and with your inferiors too!
    I really don't care about maximizing their work as I care about minimizing my work.

    PHB ;-p

  5. Format and Install by Whiteox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stuff working out what's wrong. Format and re-install.... simple.

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  6. Re:No more working for the man by Chief+Camel+Breeder · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then there's ICT, which is probably not quite the same, but I have no idea what the difference really is.

    If you provide the servers and workstations and applications for an organization, that's IT. When they cut your budget and make you responsible for the 'phones as well, that's ICT.

  7. Re:Working conditions differ... by Jawn98685 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but your country, with it's superior working conditions, health care options, etc. is, is... almost socialist, and on Fox News, they keep telling us that that's bad for us. So, you're saying, we're a bunch of idiots?

  8. Re:Bad Economy = Bad Management by ArsonSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    You use that word, "Capitalism" i do not think it means what you think it means.

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