10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT

Why tell the turth? Our client (user, executive and those **** co-worker) don't want to know.

Again, I think every companies need a IT guy. IT is important in today market, however most management will not understand because they are from the old school (Big corporation concept).

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networker050184

I use number one all the time. Not because I screwed something up, but to make them just nod their head and walk away when they bother me. Just throw some crazy stuff out there and they will leave you alone pretty quick. Better yet follow them and ask their oppinion. You won't see the manager for a while after that!

cdad2000

Daddy Like. I guilty of number 1. 85% true

Vogon Poet

a good list, but all jobs have some kind of analogy to that.
Instead of "computer," substitute policy, project, program, whatever.
Most people can pass the buck faster than the Federal Reserve.
Any Dilbert fans?

/usr

Some of them might even ask you if they can bring their home PC to the office for you to fix it.

I can't stand this.

/usr

And I wish more people understood this!

All IT pros — even the very best — screw things up once in a while. This is a profession where a lot is at stake and the systems that are being managed are complex and often difficult to integrate.

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Mishra

I think a big thing people show know when joining IT is this.

You work so hard to make it look like you did nothing at all. Most professions have achievements that you can see with your own 2 eyes. Sales guys make money, businessmen "make" products, construction workers make houses, and etc... But when you are in IT a lot of the things you do is to attempt to make it look like you did nothing at all.

You study for weeks and work really hard in order to migrate your 2000 domain to a 2003 domain. You pre stage everything you need and create test environments so you get a great plan going. You get up at 3am after weeks of preparing and work for about 3 hours on your plan and get it going

8am everyone comes in and logs into their machine like normal and nothing changed! Yay you did nothing that anyone can see! The CEO rolls his eyes again on all the time you spend and you have nothing to show for it. Good job.

Trailerisf

#1. I am definately guilty of... I get bored and make stuff up in technology meetings just to see if anyone is really listening.

garv221

100% true.

/usr

IT really is a thankless job in a lot of cases, much more so than others.

It's the part of an organization that everyone relies on and only realizes that when something goes wrong.

garv221

/usr wrote:

IT really is a thankless job in a lot of cases, much more so than others.

It's the part of an organization that everyone relies on and only realizes that when something goes wrong.

Exactly. A company knows they have a good IT department when users forget IT even exists.