I think this question is troll fodder. But I'll bite. But the value of
any single person to an organisation is big thing to look into. Sales
often gets a lot of focus as 'important' because there exist
CRM/residual systems that require you know exactly how much that sales
person made for the company, each and every month. IT generally has no
such metrics. (Which is why I tend to keep a dollar count for every
vendor/contract/system I replace including how long before the change is
paid off and starts saving the company money.)
The other side is how much the company would not be making if they lost
a single individual, which generally is minimised by a good 'hit by a
bus' procedure. This is often lacking, which is why IT often believes it
is so important to the organisation.
On 01/16/2012 12:55 PM, Steven Kurylo wrote:
Do sysadmins have a higher rate of arrogance than people in any other
position with similar impact/responsibility?
I'm not convinced there is significant increase. For example in a
sales driven organization, I've seen worse god complexes sales people
than the worst IT staffers I've met.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tom Limoncelli<[email protected]> wrote:
Oops... that last bit should have been:
I think that sysadmins are the dog (we are fed in return for the
service we provide) but all too often we act like the cat (we believe
we are fed because we're more important than anyone else)
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