It's about time you start to feel some pressure in I.T....It is peak season for us and I will put another 12-14 hour day in on Monday. I have a degree in engineering and I am amazed at the attitudes of you IT people have. You act like someone owes you a cushy job.
Maybe if you spent time in the district pushing packages you would appreciate what you have and deliver a product that works. I am saddened when I have DIAd boards that don't work and customers who can't get labels out of their Worldship and their Bills are wrong or don't even come and then they are harrassed by the collections people.......
I now understand why we cost so much !! It is the Lazy people in I.T. who worry about how they can go home early while we bust our butts.
I have 2 years to go and I hope to have a pension and medical benefits......
Get off the dime and stop complaining about bean counters and start giving us quality products otherwise....let China or India replace you all !!!!!
A) We're hourly, non-union, FT employees so we don't go home early. We work 8 hours and go home. We work over time as required, which means 3am on a Saturday when a server tanks we get out of bed and come to work.
B) We ARE owed a cushy jobs because we went to school and learned how to do tech work so we could have cushy jobs. If you really have a degree in engineering, why don't you get off your ass and get a real job that won't have you working 12-14 hour days.
C) The reason all your crap is broken and it's not being fixed is because the higher ups in our department FORCE us to put off work for 1-2 days so we can plan it. If it was up to the techs like it used to be, the work would be done as soon as it was called in instead of 2-3 days later. So don't act like we're the ones pissing in your corn flakes.
We're getting bent over far more than you. We're not union and don't get all the protection of it. We don't get MIP, xmas bonuses, 6 figure salaries, and we don't get to come and go as we please out side of peak. You're obviously very bent out of shape because of misinformation. I'd love for some of these bean counters and monkeys that think we're living high on the hog to work in our shoes for awhile. We may not be out busting boxes and manual labor, but we get enough crap coming down on us from our management and all the people we can't serve because of all the rules to fill a dump truck or twelve.