IT Staff: “Hey this person is leaving should we do knowledge transfer?”
People running things: “Naw IT is a waste of money and does nothing. Why would we want to waste more money to pay someone to explain how the system works?”
This conversation has happened a non zero amount of times in my life.
My favorite was that “IT is a waste of money because it doesn’t make any SALES” at a retail chain. Never mind who was maintaining the point of sale software, the company’s wholesale and retail e-commerce websites, the corp office inventory databases and integrations from the remote POSes, etc.
Naw, it’s not a team effort in the slightest. Just shit on anyone who doesn’t work on commission.
I think it’s actually the most common sentiment among those who decide such things. It’s only the commitment of the IT people to doing decent work that keeps those things from falling apart.
IT Staff: “Hey this person is leaving should we do knowledge transfer?”
People running things: “Naw IT is a waste of money and does nothing. Why would we want to waste more money to pay someone to explain how the system works?”
This conversation has happened a non zero amount of times in my life.
My favorite was that “IT is a waste of money because it doesn’t make any SALES” at a retail chain. Never mind who was maintaining the point of sale software, the company’s wholesale and retail e-commerce websites, the corp office inventory databases and integrations from the remote POSes, etc.
Naw, it’s not a team effort in the slightest. Just shit on anyone who doesn’t work on commission.
Fucking boomer petty tyrants.
This whole internet thing is a fad you know? Won’t last the next quarter
“if I can’t see how busy they’re working, they can’t be doing much”
I think it’s actually the most common sentiment among those who decide such things. It’s only the commitment of the IT people to doing decent work that keeps those things from falling apart.
Literally 90% of the economy only function, because people actually prefer to do decent work.