Hey everybody. I have to be honest I am getting kind of sick of paying for my cell phone, internet access, and other equipment (i.e. pda, wireless access for my notebook etc.). And I am sick and tired of executives giving IT departments less and less and expecting more and more. I happen to work at a public school and while I have very strong feelings about getting what teachers and students need to create a productive learning environment I also need the tools to support everyone in my environment. I mean if I am expected to manage 7 buildings with 6,000+ students and 300+ staff and factuality I am gunna need things like a blackberry, a pda, a laptop and Internet access from home. I mean with the limited personal resources I have, I need to be connected to my entire organization so that I can respond to any situations that may occur. And to do that I need these tools. I think it is unfair to make IT managers pay for there own tools, I mean you would make a nurse buy there own bandages or a teacher buy there own desk.
It's unfair, and to say IT people are not dedicated to there work is out rageous. IT people are some of these most dedicated employees a company will have. I mean even at a public school I have found my self-staying late into the night to get things operating for the next day. Have many other friends who work in the IT field who also have found them self's working late into the night to get there respective networks up and running. Now we are not spending time away from our family and friends eating junk food and loosening sleep for our health, we do it because we have to. We know that we are in responsible for the success of failure of our respective organizations. Companies need to wake up and realize that IT people are the workhorses of their organizations are necessary for their future success. In that recognition they also have to give the there IT staffs the tools they need to do their jobs and to do it well. Organizations who don't do this will have to learn this the hard way.
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Hey everybody. I have to be honest I am getting kind of sick of paying for my cell phone, internet access, and other equipment (i.e. pda, wireless access for my notebook etc.). And I am sick and tired of executives giving IT departments less and less and expecting more and more. I happen to work at a public school and while I have very strong feelings about getting what teachers and students need to create a productive learning environment I also need the tools to support everyone in my environment. I mean if I am expected to manage 7 buildings with 6,000+ students and 300+ staff and factuality I am gunna need things like a blackberry, a pda, a laptop and Internet access from home. I mean with the limited personal resources I have, I need to be connected to my entire organization so that I can respond to any situations that may occur. And to do that I need these tools. I think it is unfair to make IT managers pay for there own tools, I mean you would make a nurse buy there own bandages or a teacher buy there own desk. It's unfair, and to say IT people are not dedicated to there work is out rageous. IT people are some of these most dedicated employees a company will have. I mean even at a public school I have found my self-staying late into the night to get things operating for the next day. Have many other friends who work in the IT field who also have found them self's working late into the night to get there respective networks up and running. Now we are not spending time away from our family and friends eating junk food and loosening sleep for our health, we do it because we have to. We know that we are in responsible for the success of failure of our respective organizations. Companies need to wake up and realize that IT people are the workhorses of their organizations are necessary for their future success. In that recognition they also have to give the there IT staffs the tools they need to do their jobs and to do it well. Organizations who don't do this will have to learn this the hard way.