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> The worst part is, the people who saw this coming (i.e. your IT department) probably can't do a damn thing about it because it's mandated at high levels in th
by maccard 2y ago
> The worst part is, the people who saw this coming (i.e. your IT department) probably can't do a damn thing about it because it's mandated at high levels in the company either for "cyber insurance" requirements or some other regulation.
I've worked with many excellent IT people who feel this way, but the vast majority of my experience with IT departments has been that as long as the contract covers what it needs to, they don't actually care if it solves the problem or not. At a previous job, software similar to crowdstrike was installed on my workstation over a weekend, and I came back to 20% slower compile times (I was working on them at the time so I had dozens of measurements). I had ETL traces showing the problem was the software, but IT refused to acknowledge it because the vendor contract said there was no performance impact expected for our workload.
- hypeatei 2y agoThat is my experience, too. I attribute it to IT / sysadmin jobs having a lower bar to entry and becoming more of a "watered down" business unit that just follows orders without much say or care for anything.