The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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The trouble is, that it's all variedSome consultants rip you off - others don't.
Most IT people don't read your mail (it's boring), but some do.
There are some companies that are mostly crap, but others are fine.
IT is just too big an area to have any universal dirty secrets. I work at a company that is honest, and people appreciate that.
The key point to remember is that if you annoy us enough, we control all the systems. You can't disguise your e-mail, hide what sites you've visited, talk on MSN messenger, sneak away games by cunningly renaming them, etc.
Quite often we know what you're doing, or could find out - it's just too much hassle to do so.
In particular remember that it's not your computer, and you're there to work; don't whinge about things that don't directly relate to your work, or that make life harder for us - we'll just start blocking you from accessing places and running programs, otherwise. The price of us being laissez faire with monitoring, is that you don't abuse the privilege.
One final warning about statistics, monitoring and error handling. Most people wouldn't know a standard deviation if it bit them on the bum, they have no idea how to monitor service reliability and rarely consider how systems recover when they unexpectedly run out of memory, for instance..
(, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 13:52, Reply)
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