The Fast Food theory
He can be replaced with Contractors or H1B Visa Workers really fast, but replacing us with another IT employee will take some time. They have to interview them, pick with 30 a week, and find the best one for the job. For H1B Visa Workers they just let the lawyers do the work, for Contractors they just make a phone call to a Contracting Company and can get someone where same day or next day. Hiring an IT Employee will take too much of their own time.
It is that mindset in management that IT workers are a dime a dozen that is killing the IT departments out there. Good talent will walk out their door, replaced with crap-workers that do it faster and of a much lower quality. Also the mindset that they have to use 100% Microsoft technology and nothing else is killing productivity and performance.
It is IT Managers that are a dime a dozen, they have the same brainpower as a Fast Food Manager and there are a lot more of them out there. One lady was promoted to an IT Manager positoon at the lawfirm and had no idea what a database was, and her changes had caused some problems. But my manage was too much of a wimp to stand up to her. If she isn't that tech savvy, why is she managing IT people? I tend to think that she either slept to the top, or brownnosed enough managers to get pulled out of being a Legal Assistant and into becoming an IT Manager. She has no clue how to do her job and causes more problems than she solves, and blames it on other people. If she just stepped aside and let someone else take over that knew the heck what they were doing, it would have been a much better place.
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
