When everything is going wrong, the boss says “What do we even pay IT for?”
When nothing is going wrong, the boss says “What do we even pay IT for?”
Doesn’t matter how important IT Security is these days or how many big corporations have been hit with ransomware, IT is still considered only important if there is an active security event, otherwise its a forgettable cog in the machine.
Expect more data breaches as more companies cut costs in their IT departments.
You dont fire your janitor when your hallways are clean.
Eventually they’ll realize that IT is important and bring them back. Or, management will change and they’ll go through the whole thing again
My friend is a manager at a hospital. The union that manages the janitors and a number of other groups went on strike and they told me about how there were overflowing trash cans, shit on bathroom floors, and random trash all over the hospital after one day.
To correct for this, managers who were not on strike had to pick up extra tasks that aligned with their skill set. Humorously, the only thing the CEO was qualified to do was be the janitor, as they had no medical related experience and could not assist with those jobs.
Eh…they’ll just pay the ransom like everyone else.
There are two markets for cybersecurity:
- Private companies who get it
(of which there aren’t many) - Federal government
(who lives on the nonstop taxpayer gravy train)
The manufacturing and engineering worlds still need people, and it dovetails well into our existing skillsets.
- Private companies who get it
IT is like the transit advisor from Sim City 2000
Wasn’t he the guy who screamed at you if you set funding at like 95%?
IT departments have been replaced by big toilets. (IT Crowd reference, just in case)
My memories of the IT Crowd would be a lot fonder if Graham Linehan hadn’t hamfistedly shoved in all the anti-trans shtick he could.
And this was before he was officially a full blown anti trans nutjob.
It also sits as the lowest point in Matt Berry’s career.
Otherwise a good show, but brought down because Linehan is a fucking tool.
I don’t care that you’re from Iran
Was pretty progressive for the time tho…
How did they manage not to mention over-expansion of IT due to Covid?
Over expansion? Lets call it what it really is. Stupidity. Tech start ups with more brains than wit. As soon as any hard decision has to be made, they fold. It’s what happens when you hire people with no management experience because they’re cheap and aspiring.
I see it a lot in colleagues who fell for it. A lot of companies are culling big time.
Offset by the number fired from Twitter?
My company had two rounds of layoffs and I got axed. I found a new position that pays better with easier work. I was in a lucky position to be able to wait for something I really wanted to come along, so this isn’t suggesting that it’s a grass-is-greener situation.
