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This is a diverging motivations issue. Many people are not in a stable career such that they can hang around and do upper management's job for them by "expensi
by _carbyau_ 5y ago
This is a diverging motivations issue.
Many people are not in a stable career such that they can hang around and do upper management's job for them by "expensively failing so as to demonstrate IT's failures".
Academics and PHD students in particular live from grant to grant. They can't afford to waste grant money "to make a point that IT doesn't work." Reputations - and by extension careers - can be made and unmade with such stuff.
Aside, I think the academic life being so fragile is ALSO silly but that is another story.
- unethical_ban 5y agoI was assuming that the OP was someone who worked in a department IT role, that had to abide by more centralized IT security requirements. You're right that someone who is more transient or less full-time has less motivation to make a long-term point to the administration.
- azalemeth 5y agoQuite. IT people in universities have jobs for life. The overwhelming majority of academics -- often including many professors -- do not.