Could be losing a good member of staff

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Well, they are a drain on the company cash flow regardless of whether they provide value or not. Even one IT employee is an expense, albeit a necessary one. The balancing act comes in determining how much is too much and how much is not enough. Either extreme, and your business suffers.

 

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Not from what I've seen. Non-essential services get cut first, and IT isn't really seen as "non-essential" by most companies. Sure, they'll trim back (and when they do, it's usually the bottom feeders who are the first to get the axe!)... but I can guarantee you that many other departments likely feel it worse than we do, mate.

Those companies that cut indiscriminately based on the belief that IT is a non-essential expense quickly discover that business productivity and functionality decreases. So what do they do? Hire a short-term contract employee or an outsourced hourly tech... costing them more than before.

 

Not at the companies I've worked for unfortunately

 

I'm better looking.

 

same here

 

If you and Daz ever worked on the "good side" of IT, your opinions would change dramatically. I hope that happens!!!

 

I know of a few people that got bored of IT
not because IT is boring or they had the wrong mind set, but because many IT jobs are indeed boring
how many of us have worked at a place where management have outsourced all the cool jobs to consultancies? even though we trained long and hard to do it?

My friends eventually both changed roles and found the spark for IT again, one of them even spent 1000 quid on a new home lab just to play with vSphere after his vSphere class as he was that stoked again about how 'cool' IT was, something I had been telling him for years ;)

IT is what you make it
its cutting edge, its exciting, its thought provoking
but only if you let it be

but hey, keep using XP and Office 97, knock yourself out ;)

 

I remember being bored sh*tless working at EDS in Blackpool about 4 years ago, i'd been there about 3 years, money hadn't changed much, role hadn't changed much and I was sick of IT, for some reason I decided to give the Royal Marines a go. Off I went on the 3 day commando course and was in bits the entire time, after being tired of doing infinite pressups and viewing sergeants collection of mpegs consisting of Iraqi's getting shot in the head I thought 'IT's not so bad', back to work I went, (I passed the course by the way!) tarted up my CV, applied for loads of jobs and was able to escape to a much better position.
Haven't looked back since, it wasn't IT I was sick of, just the mundane work I was doing at the time.