Bad IT Departments

The entire IT department at my office is laughing at this thread.

Oh wait, I comprise the ENTIRE IT department.

By the way, it seems that one-man IT operations can't get real vacations. I'm on day 1 of my 2 week x-mas vacation and I've already been inundated with e-mails about IT problems from my colleagues at work.

Time to shut down MS Outlook and kick back for MNF tonight!

 

Yeah, a webmaster is a different type of animal from a real IT person. Ours is a whiz with graphics and layouts, but does everything in Dreamweaver's drag and drop mode and knows very little about code. There is no way she could troubleshoot a mouse or ethernet cable being unplugged, nor does she really have to. She was really trying to tell you that you needed to cut down on the amount of space used, she is just too much of an artist to be a true geek.

I have been teaching our webmaster ColdFusion and she doesn't truly get the concept. She is coming along, but I am having to teach her basic programming concepts on top of the actual syntax in ColdFusion. Too bad the only other person who knows anything about programming absolutely hates our webmaster. People can be so petty.

I guess what I am trying to say is that a webmaster is only tangentially "in" IT. They are there because some companies haven't figured out that they really belong in the PR or marketing departments. She has very little reason to know anything about those KB and MB thingies (I have to admit I laughed out loud when I read it) because that isn't her gig.

Cut her a little slack.

 

Spoken like a true developer.

I've got plenty of developers that try to tell me how to run my web servers at work, but in reality they don't know jack about the infrastructure side of things. They know just enough to be dangerous, which ain't much.

 

Yeah, I never listen to the developers who try to tell me about networking. They always want to talk about the way THEY would program it to work and don't seem to understand the way Microsoft (or Novell or UNIX) programmers do things.

Leave my network to me and go write an applet, huh?

 

The place I work at started doing this and it's amazing how bad these people do on the test. Somebody with 3+ years experience can't name two date/time functions, that's something you'd learn after a week of using a language. Common sense would tell you to guess day() and year() if you didn't know but they can't even do that. Only about 1 out of 5 people can even get half the questions right.

Of course, I made it past their test so it obviously wasn't that good.

 

post pictures.

 

I work for the Computer Science dept at A&M we have lots of GANTS and other full time progs and most progs I have met over the years only know how to type code and thats about it... Seems like atleast one of our helpdesk techs has a funny story everyday about Computer Science majors not knowing how to do the smallest stuff...

 

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

-- Socrates

 

Am I the only one who thinks it's quite unprofessional to call out a co-worker in a forum where everyone knows where you work and what you do?

 

But with the questions she was asking, she is unlikely to find this web site, much less her own.

 

Off topic, but if anybody needs a real IT person, I'm looking. I've 6+ years experience in IT consulting, and I've a load of professional references who'll confirm that I'm better than whoever you used to have.

(I'm humble too!)

 

We have 3 more openings for a 1 year contract position for someone who is somewhat proficient (at this point we are getting more desperate) in C# w/ASP.Net. These are not contract to hire though and they do require relocation to TN. The building is half up we just need some "code monkeys" to top it off by next year.

{And I have the answer key for the right price... j/k}

 

Caller: The screen say to press any key. I can't find the any key.

Me: Turn off your computer and go home. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.