Not really fair as the head chef is probably already in the kitchen preparing for breakfast for people who want to eat at 7 am.

Try paging the head chef at 2 am right after he closed the restaurant....

If you, as a head chef, make a mistake it costs you what? Maybe 100-200? If we as server techs and admins make a mistake it can cost millions....even billions. I'd take the stress of being a head chef any day.

Money like that can create a lot of problems too. It's not always about money. Who cares if you make 6 figures if you can never go to a kids event because you are going to be pulled away for some stupid stuff.

The answer to that might be important depending on where it is. For example, if it's a Christian school they might want to actually know if you are a Christian. I can see not asking if the company is a secular one and the asking isn't really the issue as far as I am concerned....it's if they reject you because you don't have the same one where it becomes an issue....IF it's a secular business.

This is DAMN insightful. The business units OFTEN want something but have no idea how to articulate what they want it to DO or what they want to DO with it. They also want it installed yesterday because it might MAGICALLY solve all of the fraud issues....SUUUURE it will.

Good analogy here!

That's a load of crap. Been working in IT for 16+ years....and in those 16 years it's completely changed. In the next 16 years it will all change again. Laptops and Desktops will be replaced by Virtualdesktops and that will only be for a short time(next 5 years...maybe). The IT industry isn't looking for stability....it's looking to change the world constantly. It will never mature as we have an all encompassing thirst to make things easier.

Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud.....that is all managers hear! They hear it get painted in nice sparkles by marketing people and people like Leo Laporte and they thing we gotta have this shit. Then they have no fscking clue why their favorite website went down when the whole fsking thing is running on Amazon's EC3. Stupid.

My current boss is excellent with end user relations and even knows a little about systems....but she has NO CLUE when it comes to the server level stuff we do. I like her though as she usually defers the tech decisions to us as long as we can paint it in warm and fuzzies. Plus when we have to take time off for our family she gets it....but it's the ones above her that REALLY have no clue. They wanted to switch the database from Oracle(running on Power hardware) to SQL Server(on Intel of course) and did not know that with the particular product we run you have to switch out the whole entire infrastructure including the app server....and they supposedly specialize in being CIO's in our particular industry. I wanted to scream.

"Life was simpler back then too... the female co-workers were also hotter."

Really dude? Way to make all of us guys sound like neanderthals! We got to stop doing that.

I know your just trying to make a joke but there ARE Women in IT and who read Slashdot.

Is when they ask you to implement something you had ZERO input into. Usually there are about 5-10 other projects that really need to be done before their request can be done sanely, but you have to find workarounds to make what they want work NOW and then you have to REDO it all AGAIN once the other projects are done. Planning? Ain't nobody got time fo dat. SHOVE IT IN and who gives a fuck if it's your ass on the line....we'll fire your ass because we asked you to do somethign we shouldn't. Ain't no wonder I frickin hate my job at times.

Plus then there's uptime. They want zero downtime but they don't want to actually PAY FOR IT. THA SUCK!

Listen....Facebook isn't just adults. Hasn't been for a long time now. You can't act like it is any more. I've seen kids as young as 9 with Facebook accounts (yes in violation of blah blah blah...).

The one strange thing I find with Facebook is the people who INSIST on swearing, posting risque pics and more. They act like everyone who might ever friend them would like what they post. Fortunately my friends don't do this often. The real problem is on product pages. I see swearing, threats of volence and other issues on product pages like Chevy's! A product page is not your personal graffiti board! Not everyone wants to see that stuff and I SURE as heck don't want my son to see it.

I put it this way.....would you paste a pic of your naked wife on your front door? When you do that on Facebook....depending on your settings....THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

Facebook=public.....if you go that route when you post stuff....even if just to your friend list....then you probably won't have any issues.

Because we're big?

Really this is a numbers thing. We use machines because America wants an answer tonight. There likely will be one (unless it's as close as they say).

Because their CHEAP!

Was going to say....we've had REGULAR mobile users groups at the college I work at and TONS of people using them in the office and in the classroom. Our pastors at church started using the iPad for sermon notes and it's been a boon to many kids. Bill's just pissed that his Tablet PC and now the Surface may fail.