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This is absolutely a thing. I worked at a fortune small-cap where the IT department was absolutely insidious. They would undermine anyone who they didn't like,
by oceanghost 7y ago
This is absolutely a thing.
I worked at a fortune small-cap where the IT department was absolutely insidious. They would undermine anyone who they didn't like, or who opposed their nonsense. I wrote a lot of backend stuff, and they would spend far more effort and money denying us servers and resources than it would have taken to simply get those things for us. They'd tell us developers we couldn't use the OS's our products targeted, and yet they'd be using them.
They undermined their own CIO time after time; most lasted about 18 months.
Then, the company hired a sociable, intelligent, woman as CIO.
Within six months, she'd (rightly) fired the ENTIRE department. They just didn't see it coming.
- krilly 7y agoWait, what was your point here? That women actually are wonderful?
- thrwaway69 7y agoAre they not?
- soneca 7y agoI assumed the point is that the combative developers saw the new CIO as harmless and didn't fight her as with the others CIOs.
- oceanghost 7y agoThat was the point, thank you.
- proc0 7y agoSounds like society is so biased in favor of women that they can get away with breaking shit (whether accident or intentional).
- throwaway55554 7y ago> breaking shit You mean fixing.
- proc0 7y agoNo i mean breaking. I didn't say ALL women, but clearly my point is proven because you want to defend ALL women. That is the problem. Had I mentioned men break shit, I would have received upvotes.
- ozim 7y agoThose social skills black magic, I should have been drinking more in high school instead of programming.