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IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022 (www.wsj.com)
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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

But also in 2020-2022 saw one of the biggest rushes to capitalize on social welfare. Companies knew people would be at home looking for something to do, so they all expected incredible growth.

They did make incredible profits, but not growth, and now we are seeing the biggest layoff waves in decades because there was never any growth, just short term profits.

This is essentially privatizing profits and socializing losses. It is still greatly hurting us today when they tell lie that cost of living has to go up because everyone is broke. The rich aren't broke but they put on their rags and joined us at the table, ready to buy up all our cheap shit.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When everything is going wrong, the boss says "What do we even pay IT for?"

When nothing is going wrong, the boss says "What do we even pay IT for?"

Doesn't matter how important IT Security is these days or how many big corporations have been hit with ransomware, IT is still considered only important if there is an active security event, otherwise its a forgettable cog in the machine.

Expect more data breaches as more companies cut costs in their IT departments.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You dont fire your janitor when your hallways are clean.

Eventually they'll realize that IT is important and bring them back. Or, management will change and they'll go through the whole thing again

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

My friend is a manager at a hospital. The union that manages the janitors and a number of other groups went on strike and they told me about how there were overflowing trash cans, shit on bathroom floors, and random trash all over the hospital after one day.

To correct for this, managers who were not on strike had to pick up extra tasks that aligned with their skill set. Humorously, the only thing the CEO was qualified to do was be the janitor, as they had no medical related experience and could not assist with those jobs.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IT is like the transit advisor from Sim City 2000

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Wasn’t he the guy who screamed at you if you set funding at like 95%?

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IT departments have been replaced by big toilets. (IT Crowd reference, just in case)

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

My memories of the IT Crowd would be a lot fonder if Graham Linehan hadn't hamfistedly shoved in all the anti-trans shtick he could.

And this was before he was officially a full blown anti trans nutjob.

It also sits as the lowest point in Matt Berry's career.

Otherwise a good show, but brought down because Linehan is a fucking tool.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I don't care that you're from Iran

Was pretty progressive for the time tho...

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did they manage not to mention over-expansion of IT due to Covid?

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Over expansion? Lets call it what it really is. Stupidity. Tech start ups with more brains than wit. As soon as any hard decision has to be made, they fold. It's what happens when you hire people with no management experience because they're cheap and aspiring.

I see it a lot in colleagues who fell for it. A lot of companies are culling big time.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

My company had two rounds of layoffs and I got axed. I found a new position that pays better with easier work. I was in a lucky position to be able to wait for something I really wanted to come along, so this isn't suggesting that it's a grass-is-greener situation.