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Half of All Data Centers Understaffed
alphadogg writes "Fifty percent of IT executives say their data centers are understaffed, and companies are still looking for more ways to cut costs, according to Symantec's latest 'State of the Data Center' report. Sixteen percent of survey respondents said their data centers are extremely understaffed, and another 34% called their data centers somewhat understaffed. At the same time, data centers are becoming more complex and harder to manage, with more applications, data and increasingly demanding service-level agreements. 'Data center complexity has led to a lot of staffing challenges,' says Sean Derrington, director of storage management and high availability at Symantec."
It's never a good time for a union. Ever.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Is someone twisting your arm to take this job? Are you being coerced?
Don't whine and blame "corporate America" when you find out your CS degree doesn't guarantee you a $125k a year salary with a company car and medical cover. That boat sailed long ago, and you're not the first / you won't be the last to realise it. You are a commodity now. You're either a prodigy and make yourself very well known, or you fade into the pool of imported skills and labour, many of whom come from backgrounds where your idea of "a hard day's work" is vacation time.
Someone else is willing to work harder than you for less money. Either lower your expectations, change your work ethic, or prepare to be swept aside by 10 others who aren't as pompous.
Things change. Adapt.
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How about $60k (adjusted up/down for COL where you are), medical coverage, 401k, reasonable leave time/holidays, rotating call coverage/overtime, and a working environment that doesn't make you want to rip your own fingers off to improve your situation?
There will always be somebody who's willing to take $55k. Like I said, "the market" decides what you get paid. If you don't like the pay, you find another job / sector and work your ass off getting a job there.
I somehow knew I'd be modded troll, but I see it as more "-1 Uncomfortable Truth." Coming out of University with $xx,000 in debt and a qualification another 1m people across the country also got isn't the way it's done anymore, but business hasn't caught up. They want the Degree level education of a graduate, but the lower expectation of an unqualified H1B employee. They get the latter, as it costs less, and at the moment the bottom-line is the bottom-line. The question is whether you're willing to slip yourself into that segment in order to get experience, or become part of the "welfare state" so to speak.
FWIW, a friend of mine left his cushy job as QA for a large game publisher around 4 months ago and went onto benefits (contract ended, so he qualified). His outgoings are less by as much as I earn more than he gets in benefits, so we have a comparative lifestyle. The difference is that when he comes to seek employment, he has to explain why he's been a bum for 6 months. I only have to use the words "Economic downturn. I didn't want to go on benefits." to explain why I took lower pay than the job is worth. He benefits short term.
It won't last forever, and we can benefit long term. Just got to play by their rules for a while.
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Seriously, you just copied and pasted that off the UAW web site, right?
Because the Unions in the Auto Plants forced the automakers to become very inflexible and ossified in how they conducted operations. Any minor change in process required expensive retraining, and lord help them if a new process made it possible for something to be done with fewer employees.