I am in the IT field and I find it so irritating that so many people in the IT industry have serious ego problems.
It’s rare for one IT person to say to another “good job” or “smart thinking”. Just today my colleague stepped out of the office and an issue came up that I was able to fix and when she returned she was questioning what I did and asking to see my code and implying that I copied her code from another part of the program instead of just saying “thanks”.
She even went so far as to remind me that at one time when I first started here years ago that she taught me the in’s and out’s of this program. I have always found that people in IT hate asking for help and love talking about what they have done. Why am I in the career again?—IT Ego-Hater
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
Because if you go into another career, there’ll be the same problems. IT ain’t special.
shit o.p., i don’t have that problem, because i’m pefect at what i do, all the time.
Try science. (snicker)
IT….are these the same people who are in Kijiij who say they will fix your computer?
IT people have to be arrogant to their own kind. After all, who boasts about being IT to someone who is not?
giant egos ruin many things…i have worked with chefs whose inflated sense of self worth can curdle the most wonderful dishes
Egos, politics, back-stabbing, being territorial, lack of communication, lack of motivation, laziness…
If none of the above describes your workplace environment, you have won the jackpot.
I prefer the new employees that get hired fresh out of university to tell me how I should do my job of twenty plus years.
I like my job.
You tell me what to do & I tell you to go f^(# yourself.
I already know what I’m doing & I have almost 30 years in, & getting it right…. which is probably why I’m in charge.
PK has been told by IT people that if there were a crisis in a workplace that IT people would be the ones to take charge over management, PR, legal and other more important teams.
In most workplaces, in the event of a crisis, the IT staff will be the first ones eaten.
small businesses rawk…i am the ceo, cfo, gopher, cashier, nurse and wrath
That’s the way to have it, pg – you’ve won the aforementioned jackpot!
far out…i am so very honoured^^^
IT people behave this way because they think they make the world go ’round.
The reality is that a troop of chimps could just as well manage to trigger two “temporary system outages” per day every single day of the year and large software implementations that are 18 months behind schedule and still buggy as a Florida swamp, for a fraction of the banana quotient that IT people require, but they’d still treat each other like shit (by throwing shit at each other).
I’ve met IT and CS people who couldn’t do the simplest tasks with a computer before.
Big deal; you’re a ‘nerd’. Too bad the t-shirts out there actually don’t apply to you.
you’d be surprised how many you can replace with a very small shell script.