IT Crisis... maybe in your company, not mine.
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The New IT Crisis
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(Ironically originally posted to feedback to the above-mentioned article but never showed up on ZDNet's listserver. Perhaps they have an I.T. crisis.)
Taking a dial tone for granted?!!!!
Sorry Marc but you obviously haven't had to make a tech support call to any phone company lately looking for someone who knows what they are doing.
The real IT crisis is what it has always been: Ridiculous expectations, impossible deadlines, everyone else's problems being your problem and little or no recognition for what's been accomplished.
Real I.T. people have actually chosen to work under these conditions and most, like myself, thrive under them. If you're going to be in I.T. you have to be prepared to only be recognized for your last failure.
I worked for Borland Int. when they had 6,800 end users world wide and 35 I.T. people in total (That's telecomm, network, help desk and programming). That was one impressive group of I.T. people. It was my honor and privilege to work with them.
I currently work for a 450 end user company that has 3 I.T. people, myself included. We bring projects in on time and under budget, and we don't have a backlog of unfulfilled help desk requests.
I guess my point is: No amount of automation or new technology is ever going to replace having skilled and knowledgeable I.T. people working for you.
I personally am getting very tired of seeing IBM, CA and Microsoft commercials suggesting to the corporate world that: "Your internal I.T. department is incompetent and we can provide you with software so simple a monkey could operate it and save you money."
Don't even get me started on all the "Industry Experts" that were spewing doom and gloom over y2k that are still considered industry experts. Thanks for the global vote of confidence in your engineers and I.T. people, we really appreciate it. I'm still waiting for an apology on that one.
I think the major problem is that I.T. jobs used to be filled by people that loved the work and the technology and knew what they were doing.
These days, folks that think certification equals big bucks are taking up the jobs. It doesn't help that the government is trying to manufacture I.T. people through incentive programs. You can't swing a dead cat in most I.T. departments these days without smacking someone who has no business being in the position their in.
If you have problems in your corporation's I.T. department stop looking for the magic bullet and start looking at the people doing the hiring and your hiring procedures. I would much rather bring in people that know less and have a desire to learn than someone with education and/or certification that's just looking for money.
This concludes this unscheduled rant. We now return you to your regular programming.
Slashdot Mirror
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It just set a new depth record. 8^>
You have to park with parity enabled.
WARNING: You have crashed!
8^O
In that case...
I already have a VCR.
Automagical commercial removal was the only good reason to buy one of these things.
Finally! Now I can fully optimize notepad. ;-)
(Ironically originally posted to feedback to the above-mentioned article but never showed up on ZDNet's listserver. Perhaps they have an I.T. crisis.)
Taking a dial tone for granted?!!!!
Sorry Marc but you obviously haven't had to make a tech support call to any phone company lately looking for someone who knows what they are doing.
The real IT crisis is what it has always been: Ridiculous expectations, impossible deadlines, everyone else's problems being your problem and little or no recognition for what's been accomplished.
Real I.T. people have actually chosen to work under these conditions and most, like myself, thrive under them. If you're going to be in I.T. you have to be prepared to only be recognized for your last failure.
I worked for Borland Int. when they had 6,800 end users world wide and 35 I.T. people in total (That's telecomm, network, help desk and programming). That was one impressive group of I.T. people. It was my honor and privilege to work with them.
I currently work for a 450 end user company that has 3 I.T. people, myself included. We bring projects in on time and under budget, and we don't have a backlog of unfulfilled help desk requests.
I guess my point is: No amount of automation or new technology is ever going to replace having skilled and knowledgeable I.T. people working for you.
I personally am getting very tired of seeing IBM, CA and Microsoft commercials suggesting to the corporate world that: "Your internal I.T. department is incompetent and we can provide you with software so simple a monkey could operate it and save you money."
Don't even get me started on all the "Industry Experts" that were spewing doom and gloom over y2k that are still considered industry experts. Thanks for the global vote of confidence in your engineers and I.T. people, we really appreciate it. I'm still waiting for an apology on that one.
I think the major problem is that I.T. jobs used to be filled by people that loved the work and the technology and knew what they were doing.
These days, folks that think certification equals big bucks are taking up the jobs. It doesn't help that the government is trying to manufacture I.T. people through incentive programs. You can't swing a dead cat in most I.T. departments these days without smacking someone who has no business being in the position their in.
If you have problems in your corporation's I.T. department stop looking for the magic bullet and start looking at the people doing the hiring and your hiring procedures. I would much rather bring in people that know less and have a desire to learn than someone with education and/or certification that's just looking for money.
This concludes this unscheduled rant. We now return you to your regular programming.
Ivan.