On 2011 Dec 15, at 21:57 , Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with > some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert > cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or > typical organizations, etc. Somebody uses a term like "overhead" or > "secondary" referring to support roles. But you're an IT person - You're a > support role, and depending on what is your core business, most likely you're > overhead. > > With only a moment's thought, and only a few words, how do you describe the > value that your role adds to the organization? How do you justify your own > existence, casually, when talking to a CFO or somebody in a social situation?
On an old assignment: "I make sure your state senators aren't calling you because they can't get their personal email." On my current assignment: "I make sure customers can use their credit card to buy our products." ---- "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R Murrow (1964) Mark McCullough [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
