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July 8th, 2008, 05:25 PM
#11
Jobs have become de-skilled, staff have been cut and the checks and balances of old have gone out the window.
Furthermore, junior staff had training, career progression and other incentives. You would get a decent pension and you were regarded as a professional. Not the sort of things you threw away lightly for a few quick bucks?
Boy, I think you've summed up the root cause of a grand multitude of IT and IT security problems abroad right there.
Today you have more and more IT people not knowing what they're doing, yet in charge of a volume of sensitive data. In their defense (as I've been that ignorant IT person myself in past jobs), the problem is often a lack of training as opposed to a lack of competence. No one's seriously investing in them.
And consequently, IT is no longer (if it ever was) a well regarded profession. Ya know, there's a world of difference between "IT Professional" and "computer guy", and nowadays everyone is seen as the latter.
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July 8th, 2008, 06:14 PM
#12
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson
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July 8th, 2008, 06:22 PM
#13
Well to be honest I am still learning the ropes.
I have just come into my real first job - two months down the line I was taking home the server back up tapes?
Who gives sensitive company data to someone whom just started? The admins would go tour europe and leave me in charge. I could steal any keys or anything off the server I want.
And I get no training whatsoever.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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July 8th, 2008, 07:09 PM
#14
Who gives sensitive company data to someone whom just started?
That's exactly what happened with my first job out of college!
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July 9th, 2008, 10:31 AM
#15
Crazy stuff. No professionalsim.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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