The Canadian and American governments are tripping over themselves to bailout the auto industry. Well, there are some strings attached, but that is for another day. My big question is why does the business world have a hate on for IT. We are going to save jobs of people that can be replaced by machines. While we are cut jobs that require actual high skilled intelligent people.
I'm not blaming industry for shipping jobs to overseas. Sending jobs overseas is just a result of needing to satisfy shareholder value. The companies using overseas staff, have not reduced head count, they have just employed less expensive staff. There is a large number of highly qualified and talented people in these countries, they deserve jobs, so let them work.
My issue now is that all the other companies first reaction to cut costs and "Right Size" is to reduce there overhead. OK, but is the overhead always IT?? We have to pay the executives who's greed, ineptness, or pick your favorite adjective, more than the entire IT department for a salary, and then he deserves a bonus for bankrupting or tanking his company! Where is the executives accountability? Oh yeah it's in his desire to maintain his bonus.
I don't disagree that IT sometimes brings on the wrath of business folks on because IT does do stupid stuff. I also question the brain trust that retrains high school dropouts and people that don't like to use their brains into IT people. There is also a number of stereotypes within the IT community that doesn't help our cause. Ultimately we pay the price.
Since the mass hysteria called Y2K, more jobs have been lost in IT than people employed by the auto industry. Ohh, and business hasn't forgiven us for Y2K, even though it was their fault. In IT we get stuck with decisions that people that have no idea what the implications are. They just want to receive the pat on the back from the boss, or receive their kickback or what ever external stimulus has influenced the decision.
I want my bailout. I can do a bad job, I'll try really hard if give me money.....
More Later.....
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