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I forgot I had this Imgur account but it’s an amazing way to vent about work.
This feels like déjà vu but they still are paying me.
Edit: Might I add that all the comments have made my night after forgetting I posted this yesterday and opening to find it went to most viral. I will try to post more.
thepicklebucket
...when you're essential, your project manager is expendable, and they try to tell you the deadline...
majorcovert
I'm in the same boat. Except projects move forward with no money
Moosupian
All the time it was me that set them up to get them fired.
threedeviations
Typical, but then, IT managers have the full spectrum of "I'm in charge..." symptoms...
DarkTheme439
If IT departments did a better job maybe they would keep their jobs
Burningthemidnightoil
Hope they found the red stapler before the fire...
Strawberrybell
Protected by the RACI model I see? Careful when taking a promotion XD
Leisher
Blaming the people who no longer work there...an IT tradition.
travisdylan
Am I suffering PTSD? I assumed the 1st was a reference to Trump firing Krebs, and then the treasury getting hacked by Russian shortly after
swedishpancakeswithlingonberries
Geez, all we did was get busier as there was extra coding to do because of Covid.
twerps
RVME
Sound like what Trump did to U.S. Cyber Security.
thenamesmiked
We’ve lost a third of our people and a third of our managers. It’s fine. We’ll be fine. Right. Right!? Right?
ThunderChief00
You work in Cyber Security for US government?
BunnyBooBear69
And perhaps managed the solarwinds environment?
BunnyBooBear69
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/kcrd7y/according_to_fireeye_solarwinds_orion_platform/
Icantrecall
Is trump the new CIO?
ShanghaisFamousLittleDublinDistrict
FlatPlutoSociety
Last year,I took over a project from an incompetent guy who was fired. I've totally blamed some of my own mistakes this year on him.
sardonislamir
Only if you don't have Change Management procedures in place.
Strawberrybell
As an Incident Manager, Change Management keeps me in the job.
sophiadalke
Scapegoating for the win!
Dentistman
Think they left op emoyed so they can dump all the blame on him as the company goes under?
sophiadalke
Not so malicious. When people are fired it's easy to say one of them caused xyz problems and they're not around to defend themselves.
AlexDuos
Nothing like blaming something we say yesterday on the guy who quit last month.
sadurdaynight
IT/IS tends to suck in downtimes. Companies want to run in "lights on" mode. (IE: lights are on, but nobody's home). Some companies have 1/
sadurdaynight
IT/IS folks as contractors, and contractors get the cut early in down times. Then they want a skeleton crew to keep things running. Been 2/
sadurdaynight
looking for a job in analytics this year. Folks want to hire data scientists now, but want them to do the job of IT/IS depts now. When 3/
sadurdaynight
pandemic started, there was a big scramble to get remote work up and running, but now that companies have settled in they're looking to 4/
sadurdaynight
cut "non critical" functions again, and IT/IS tends to still be seen as a cost center, sadly./
KAPTKipper
Yup, They'll praise you and then the next day call your position redundant and g'byes.
sadurdaynight
Sadly, a lot of companies have shifted to look at IT/ IS as project work. You get something done, they show you the door. So, good 1/
sadurdaynight
workers end up putting themselves out of a job. Then the company has issues, they hire some IT body shop to come in and patch it quick./
QuackQuackPontiac
Sounds like normal SOP for the IT department.
Bigbabylons
Standard Operating Procedure, boom, knowledge delivered.
minant
Maybe Standard Ousting Procedure in this situation.
NLOVNI
And others. Executives will find other scapegoats. That’s how it works. Can confirm.
QuackQuackPontiac
Melonfish
Well yeah, you should be in christmas change freeze anyway.
Bigbabylons
Exactly, who's getting any work done in a change period, unless it's hardware related or to fix an issue that may cause outage.
thechillpilgrim
Hahahahahah your joking right? Brown out, more like hold onto your brown pants
c0dym0rgan
I'm an IT manager who just put in my 2 weeks notice. I need more of these for my going away email!
drizztx
I have survived through 4 different managers and 25+ employees turning over in the 18 years in my IT dept.
Iwouldbenick
As an IT manager, I hate my job right now. I am so fucking overworked and I want to cry.
Strawberrybell
Dude, you not got a Christmas change freeze? Best time of year.
Iwouldbenick
Nope. My director always asks "What projects do we want to work on now that its quiet?". It is not quiet.
Strawberrybell
Daaaaamn, my condolences.
Turbolibros
DefaultImgurUsername
A 23 year old is the longest standing member of our it team. Had been with us 2 years. Everyone else has left our been fired
DefaultImgurUsername
2 managers, a DBA, network specialist, windows server specialist, and 4 other it plebs in the past 2 years I have been there.
Ruhig
WOW.
evilcarp
then they try to outsource it all and find out it takes weeks to solve a simple problem that has the entire accounting team down.
DefaultImgurUsername
Tried outsourcing the DBA after he was fired. After 6 months and a few major outages we hired a new DBA and looking for another.
evilcarp
What does it pay and where is it?
DefaultImgurUsername
90k+ AUD for an oracle dba in brisbane
evilcarp
Is AUD even real money or will it kill me like everything else there? Australia is smart and makes it hard for Americans to immigrate.
kslickgaming
So... are they hiring? Cause... I could use the job
kslickgaming
I’ve worked for MSP’s for the majority of the last 15 years... falling on a sword... is the job description.
WrathOfJigglypuff
Be aware this could be a short gig.
randomitguy
I'm an IT manager and there were like 4 in a few months before me. Been at my job for 6 years now. Sometimes it's just not a good fit
randomitguy
for a technical position. everything is on a computer, from the PoS system, to email, to ordering, etc. Some folks can't handle the do...
ministryofpeace
How good are you at assuming the scapegoat position?
genericname1
how goods the money?
WrathOfJigglypuff
By the sound of it, nowhere near good enough.
PunIshErnest
Perfect. I was deemed the best scapegoat in history of several companies, I did it so well, I don't even know what I was scapegoating for...
AlexDuos
One time a fellow tech of mine was having trouble at home, got distracted and wiped an attorney's laptop. I took the fall for it.
BusMuffin
Surely this shoulda been backed up?
LetumComplexo
I can see arguments both for and against. It’s always dangerous to back up privileged information.
Aaronb1138
Encrypting a backup is trivial. But I always have a laugh when I see these kinds of defense.
AlexDuos
Yes, that should have been step one. He missed the bold and capslocked work order notes specifying "back up data"
Turbolibros
Three managers in less than a month?
zorlonjones
Yakeshinu
f3n1x187
Shit happens, long time ago my projects went through 2 PM before settling on a third before I left the company. >
f3n1x187
All of them trying to cut the budget of my project specially on the general pre release regression test of a very sensible and critical >
f3n1x187
healthcare platform.
CirB
Fired from the same position, or from adjacent positions?
randomitguy
I was in the fetal position when they fired me.. (I don't work there, it was a joke)
DartTarget13
Regardless something is wrong and needs to be fixed. Try turning it off and on again.
ZackWester
guessing hired by nepotism.
603933
if that was the case, they wouldnt have been fired. Probably the person hiring them was hired by nepotism