Opinion: Can IT survive?

The biggest issue with IT, upper management. Reducing headcount to the point of overwork. Not understanding that IT is expensive, reducing budgets to the point that they are ineffective. There just being WAY TO MANY managers in middle management to directors causing the need to reduce headcount of the core engineers to keep salarie budgets in line. Setting ridiculous goals for deployment. And my favorite, not spending anything for future proofing.

I find it very strange how often times the not so smart technicians and engineers make it to the IT Manager and Director level. It's quite difficult to get a technical point across to someone who absolutely knows nothing about what you are talking about.
 
This article is comical.
Yes, the people that can reset printers and passwords will work for pennies now.
Those aren't technicians, their infants. They don't know sh!t.

IT is critical in Medical I can tell you that, working at a 800+ user/50+ Server Hospital for over 8 years now, I got my hands on bar code, wrist and regular laser printers, every version of Office since 03, wireless issues of all sorts, cabling, patching, VoiP, remote access, webinars, user training, cloning/imaging, software training (Varian, Dragon, Medhost) , Medcarts, Telemedicine, advanced software, security and cameras, (Milestone) etc etc etc etc, I could write paragraphs of what is on my resume now. And thats just the beginning.
The definition of a real tech has changed, its just that many people can fool others and themselves they are something they are not because todays average person has a poor technology and hardware understanding.

Hey I work for a hospital as well. Our ER department uses Medhost. I manage the enterprise network. Most times clinical users are not very tech savvy at all. Their needs are directly related to the patient. They have no time to stay on the phone and troubleshoot a printer issue for example. Our printers are on a support contract with the vendor. Our technicians don't really work on the printers. They may fix a printer jam or a driver issue on the server but anything mechanical is done by the vendor. We even advise the staff to call the vendor directly when they have an issue with the printers. We are back to using Konica after having a nightmare with the Xerox printers.

IT in Healthcare is very tricky compared to other industries. The typical user base isn't proficient with MS Office and their computer literacy is very low on average. Nowadays I find users just want Wi-Fi access everywhere.

The hospital has 1800+ staff. Our environment has over 200 servers (80% virtual),150 switches, 200 access points and two data centers. We work with limited staff within IT. Most of the systems are proprietary e.g. PACS.

We aren't using telemedicine just yet but we have all the standard services any IT department would. We are looking at a MS cloud solution for our email.

What are the Medcarts? Are they computer carts on wheel?
 
Cloud computing, data mining, NSA snooping, offshoring and a host of cost cutting technology have taken the common sense out of being an IT person. None of these things work very well but it is politically incorrect to say so. Just keep on earning your $15 an hour trying to patch this crap together.
Definition of Political correctness - The mistaken belief you can pick a turd up by the clean end. belief


$15.00 per hr heckI read in B.I. or WSJ the Wall Mart average wage is 13.50 per hr .legitimate IT pay must be higher than $15.00 and nobody can live on that well on in S.F. the con Valley or bay area
 
What the F is this article talking about? "Them"? Software developers are people. Albeit more intelligent, more structured, more versed, simply put: better people. That doesn't mean the usual mobile "smart"phone user who doesn't know how to enable auto-correct or set their time and date have to shunt them into a special category.

A good developer is like a pillow strapped to your *ss. He takes the hit when you f up.

Now, outsourcing to India. That's another story. That's like a pillow with needles strapped to your head and somebody beating you with a baseball bat with the ever repeating "Hello, sir. How can I helping you today?".

Pff, I bet you even read that in an Indian accent. Cause they're everywhere.
ppffttt

I've met fine software / IT folks ,same for any legitimate occupation and some not so legitimate , and rubbish in any field including IT , IOW don't be so narrow minded .
 
IT will continue to evolve as technology evolves. However, I believe there will still be plenty of jobs for local IT staff. The reality is that even though some people will become "handier" with tech, most people just can't be bothered/don't have an affinity for it.

I can do quite a bit of mechanical work on my car myself-- I know how and I have the tools, but I don't want to. That's something I'd prefer to leave to my mechanic.
 
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