Hurrr, Sunday night, it use to be pretty easy going, I'd sit around doing pretty much nothing but procrastinating about not going to work the next day, but nothing was a stress, I'd know what I'd have to do the next day, I knew I could sleep in a little, rock into work a little late if I wanted, it wouldn't matter cause I knew I'd have everything in my work day under control and have all my work pretty much done and dusted before midday.
These days, well, today, it required study, baking, cleaning and iron of work clothes. Sunday are now harder these days because now my weeks are harder. No having everything under control, no rocking in late (I get to work pretty much 8:05 to 8:30am everyday now) no having everything under control by midday, its all work all the time, and I don't mind, but it is more tiring than I was use to as an I.T guy.
You know people who work in I.T should own up to it. "It" being the lack of work we do. 80% of these people do fuck all but work to make themselves look busy. Half of the people in corporate I.T jobs don't even have any history of interest in I.T or education. It is often something they "fell" into because the media beats it up as the "future" for cubicle drones. But what these people don't realise is that the real I.T work is somewhere else, not in what they are busy making themselves do. The real I.T work is out there in web start-ups, biotech, Engineering and research. What we do in "retail I.T" is nothing more than glorified shop assistants or production line workers, its pathetic.
It is pathetic that we can get paid so much for it too. I know one person in my old team that does fuck all work, dishes out most of it to other people, misses deadlines constantly, has "meetings" late in the afternoon out of the office. Rocks in late most days due to it being part of the "study plan" for "a" university subject this person is doing, it is unbelievable. It is unbelievable that people who work on websites and the like have never coded a HTML page from scratch in their life, they've never learnt to use photoshop, they have never learn the basics of setting up your own site. The people are mostly in charge of a major website, but if you told them to go out tomorrow and buy/setup a domain name and put some simples pages up there with graphics they won't even know where to start.
Did I mention these people fell into these fucking roles?! I mean one senior manager has been with the company nearly twenty years, started out as a P.A and now manages the content team without any real experience or education in management of people or actually knowing anything about building websites?!?! 5 people, yes 5, that I know that work on major IT projects as people who are suppose to be "experts" or the "source of truth" for certain things on the website came from starting out in call centres, call centres that have NOTHING to do with tech support or I.T? People that use to ask me simple things about coding their personal websites but turn around in meetings and expect me to listen to them be an expert in say, MIS systems, Internet marketing, User centric design? I had one woman who was the most senior BA on a project I was working, the woman who was in charge of me and several other people on the project, tell me that she once took a B.A course and the only thing she learned out of it was that she isn't a B.A.... THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!? I'll tell you what you are, your a person that turns in sub standard work at the last minute and then say it was shit because of the time constraints and human resources you had at your disposal. You are a person who actually has a big say in who gets hired externally onto the project, yes you, that is right YOU! You must look at people and decide to hire them because basically, they are better than you at doing your job, so they must be useful. Oh god.
I think the reason I left my last role was simply from not being able to see the logic in progression of your career. It would seem that if you were old, and had been around the business for a long time, you were all of a sudden elevated to a position where you start having real influence on technical/website things without ever having stepped foot in a classroom on the subject or even taken a real interest in it outside of your job. Come on people.
As usual I don't know where I am going with this, but I've been typing for too long and I've gotta sleep. Maybe more on this tomorrow.
