March 20, 2026 at 12:00 am
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March 20, 2026 at 1:01 pm
It's perhaps a bit cynical, but it also certainly seems to be true in many cases...
In IT, if everything is working smoothly and well, upper management is asking "what are we paying you for?" If things aren't working or arent't working well, upper management is asking "what are we paying you for?"
The "flashy" jobs, such as sales, or the "prevent massive lawsuits and jail time" such as accounting and legal and HR get all the "visibility" with management. IT in general tends to fall into the same bucket as building maintenance, you don't know it's there until something breaks.
But, at least in my case, I don't WANT to be in the limelight, I want to be able to quietly work on my projects, keep my systems running well, keep the cyber-security team happy by keeping the systems up-to-date, keep the application developers happy by keeping the systems available and helping them improve their queries' performance. As long as my supervisor and his supervisor are happy with my work, I'm not worried (much) about getting "atta boys" from higher up the corporate food chain.
March 20, 2026 at 2:27 pm
Appreciation can happen. On one occasion, after getting a fairly large project implemented one of the company owners called me to his office and told me to schedule a vacation to Hawaii for my self and my wife at company expense. Now for the scary part. I'm getting old, this was nearly fifty years ago and I can't recall his first name, but I still appreciate it!
Oh yeah, now I remember, his name was Chuck. I'm not sure if the other owners ever knew about this.
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
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