Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress

Orome1 writes "The number of IT professionals considering leaving their job due to workplace stress has jumped from 69% last year to 73%. One-third of those surveyed cited dealing with managers as their most stressful job requirement, particularly for IT staff in larger organizations. Handling end user support requests, budget squeeze and tight deadlines were also listed as the main causes of workplace stress for IT managers. Although users are not causing IT staff as much stress as they used to, it isn't stopping them from creating moments that make IT admins want to tear their hair out in frustration. Of great concern is the impact that work stress is having on health and relationships. While a total of 80% of participants revealed that their job had negatively impacted their personal life in some way, the survey discovered some significant personal impact: 18% have suffered stress-related health issues due to their work, and 28% have lost sleep due to work."

Comments

IT admins are special

[Tourney3p0]

Join the club. We meet at the bar after work.

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[jellomizer]

No your wife will not understand no matter what your job is. She will undoubtedly have worked more then you did, no matter what.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Which Bar? The Foo Bar?

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[ogar572]

Based on this comment, it seems you have been married awhile.

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[sl4shd0rk]

Keep a bottle in your desk so the bar never ends.

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[osu-neko]

My commute is 5 minutes, I never see users and I still would not go for that deal.

For $11/hour you can work at McDonalds.

I'd do admin work for that kind of pay, but there's no way you could get me to work at any kind of restaurant for that little... that's real work.

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[Culture20]

I'm getting drunk. Are there any girls there?

Really dude? Way to make all of us guys sound like neanderthals!

Neanderthals!? I've got a neanderthal-slaying knife! It's got a plus 9 against neanderthals!

I know your just trying to make a joke but there ARE Women in IT and who read Slashdot.

OK, but if there's any girls there, I wanna DO them!

Re:Lying liars and the lies they lie about

[osu-neko]

No. They're just developers. They're not stressed as much because they don't have to carry a production pager or respond when their code blows up in the wee hours of the night.

That depends on the developer... I've gotten midnight calls before. Granted, my boss was insane. He'd call me in the middle of the night to discuss an idea he just had to discuss for the project... I compiled sufficient evidence to support the theory that the man does not, in fact, sleep. At all, ever. I've seen him during daylight, though, even in direct sunlight, and he seemed perfectly okay with it (unlike me, I sunburn in approximately 15 seconds). He got annoyed when I stopped answering the phone in the middle of the night. "What if it's an emergency?", he asked. I told him if it was an emergency, call 911. I'm incapable of handling emergencies, I can only fix bugs and computer problems, and since our computers aren't running life support equipment, my software can all blow up, crash, and cause the servers to explode, but unless someone is in the room and severely injured by the explosion, this does not constitute an emergency, and if that does happen, I'm the last person you want trying to perform life-saving surgery to remove shrapnel.

I don't work there anymore...