Frustrating as hell. IT people have to sell their value, continually. Exactly the sort of people who suck at selling.
They chop IT support, shit happens, they fund IT, nothing happens, rinse and repeat.
Had a great job where I was the lone IT guy, got a seat at the table with the other managers and owners. That’s the kinda place you stay at. OTOH, I got a much better offer, they wouldn’t match, not even close, ended up spending FAR more to outsource. LOL, I may ask about going back.
This is why IT should always have a seat at the table. I worked at a place where IT was a branch of Finance and therefore didn’t get involved in the big C-level decision making. They had so much technical debt from simply not being involved in any organizational decision (and not being given the light of day for any funding requests because the VP of IT wasn’t as far up the ladder as the President of Safety for example, especially ironic when it was a funding request to fulfill a project request from Safety)
Frustrating as hell. IT people have to sell their value, continually. Exactly the sort of people who suck at selling.
They chop IT support, shit happens, they fund IT, nothing happens, rinse and repeat.
Had a great job where I was the lone IT guy, got a seat at the table with the other managers and owners. That’s the kinda place you stay at. OTOH, I got a much better offer, they wouldn’t match, not even close, ended up spending FAR more to outsource. LOL, I may ask about going back.
This is why IT should always have a seat at the table. I worked at a place where IT was a branch of Finance and therefore didn’t get involved in the big C-level decision making. They had so much technical debt from simply not being involved in any organizational decision (and not being given the light of day for any funding requests because the VP of IT wasn’t as far up the ladder as the President of Safety for example, especially ironic when it was a funding request to fulfill a project request from Safety)
Rinse and repeat.