[privacy] 26 IRS Tapes Missing in Kansas City

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:49:14 CST, Brian Loe said:
> Need data on your laptop? Fine, its encrypted. Big deal. What is the
> role of IT in an organization you describe anyway - are they just a
> fix-it and forget it shop or do they work pro-actively in pursuit of
> their employer's goals and regulatory requirements? I hate firehouse
> companies and that's exactly what you describe.

You've obviously been spoiled in your IT career.

In all too many places, IT isn't seen as something you want to spend *more*
money on.  If you're the hypothetical manager of that social services agency,
you may have a budget of $7.65M for the year, and you don't see how hiring a
4th IT person is going to provide better service to the community than hiring
another case worker, and you don't have money for both.  Which are you going
to choose?

And the chances are that if any of your 3 current IT people had an actual
workable Grand Vision on how adding a 4th IT person would allow sufficient
leaps in productivity for all the current case workers that it would be better
than another case case worker, they wouldn't be sticking around in an underpaid
job at the social services agency....

And there's very few consultants that will come in and straighten that sort
of mess out totally pro bono, so they don't get hired out of that tight budget
either.

Feel free to go out and fix the problem.  Let us know how it goes.
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