Not that I object to the comparison between support personnel and a handy-man
Why not? Not to diminish what a handyman does, but most handyman jobs don't require 4 years of college. One of the problems I see, and it's even very present here on
I've seen some companies where IT operates under the Finance department. I've never really understood why, except maybe because early computer use in many companies was limited to accounting, and it stuck in Finance for legacy reasons.
I used to work for a bank where IT started as its own department with a head that reported to the president; then ended up under Finance because the CFO was convinced that IT only cost what it did because the head of IT must be incompetent. Turns out that the CFO really had no grasp of what IT does, cut the budget in half and made it our job to make do with that and drove the department - and the bank - into the ground. I wish I could tell you the organization learned a valuable lesson and this person payed for his mistakes, but the reality is that he went on to a similar position at a much larger bank along with a nice severance package, right before the bank was liquidated when it was decided that the investment to make it competitive again, after years of technological neglect, was not worth the trouble. Better sell the assets.
I mean, hell, we can't police what we view ourselves so fuck it, lets have everyone self censor so I can live happily the way I want to.
You mean, kinda like the US is doing trying to change everybody's copyright laws so that the police of all countries will do the MPAA/RIAA's dirty work for them?
My fellow Brazilians, put down your flags. Stop dancing for a minute. You may be growing more than almost anybody but China. You seem to have found a shitload of oil in your shores. You will be hosting both the Olympics and the World Cup in the next few years. The 10% of your people who constitute the elite can finally afford new, modern cars. The 90% of your miserably poor, suffering, underfed, uneducated masses can finally afford basic plumbing outside major cities. Obama has called your president "the guy." But consider this:
- You shouldn't compare your economic growth to China's, unless you want millions of salaried slaves doing nothing but work from cradle to grave
- You should be too happy about your new found oil, unless you like what you see (wealth distribution even worse than yours, religious and political extremism, terrorism, etc) in countries that went down that road before like most of the Middle East and your neighbor Venezuela.
- Sports and international events are but temporary glory - just ask the no-longer-existing Soviet Union
- Notice that Obama didn't even invite you to the latest international talks; and when your president showed up there, uninvited, he was thoroughly ignored. - Ask your elites if their shiny new cars are worth living behind bars in luxury condos, if their annual trips to Disney World are worth the kidnappings, if their smuggled iPads are worth the rape of their daughters.
- Your poor are probably better off with some plumbing, but ask them if this is enough or if they also want access to health care, nice safe houses, access to a college education.
My fellow Brazilians, please learn something. You have a basic flaw in your principles. Learn about what freedom actually means; learn that it must include freedom of speech. I know it's a big leap for you, but try to understand that a judge or a celebrity do not merit immediate and automatic compliance. That the opposite is actually closer to the truth. It would be relatively easy to repeal your laws of contempt of authority and the rest of that rubbish; but repealing a law means nothing if the spirit of the law is in the spirit of the people. My fellow Brazilians, you must abandon the colonial ages, leave behind values meant for 17th century Portugal, and join the twentieth century at last. When you've done that you can start aspiring for the twenty-first.
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen