9/28 I remember last week or so someone was talking about how IT gets
no respect. I was too busy working at the time to get involved
in the discussion, but I wanted to chime in now with the observation\
that it really depends on where you work. If you work at the NYSE,
yeah you get loads of money, but no respect. If you work at Amazon,
you are regarded pretty highly. I think it is obvious why. Desktop
support never gets respect, but let the mail server go down and
see the sparks fly! And the animosity goes both ways. Where do
you think the phrase "bean counter" and PSB come from?
\_ PSB? I only know PHB ...
\_ I know both tom and psb...
\_ what's PSB?
\_ !psb
\_ Ooops, I meant PHB.
\_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHB
\_ FYI that wasn't a typo, some monkey came along and changed it |