AB3A's Journal: Musical Chairs

So our IT folks have been fired. Basically, the top managers hired a recruiting firm and told them to bring in lots of applicants from the outside. Then these folks competed for the same jobs as those that had been there for years.

Don't get me wrong, our IT division had some very incompetent people who should have left years earlier. But playing a game of musical chairs is no way to get rid of them when perfectly reasonable tools exist in the personnel handbook for firing those who can't produce.

Meanwhile the incompetence of upper management is showing up like a sore thumb. We have a microwave network which not only carries our telemetry, radio traffic, county police and fire radio traffic, internal security, and OH YES, our IT traffic (it was actually a tertiary reason why we went to private microwave in the first place). Our new boss says MPLS is the answer. But the question is who will maintain the existing network? He doesn't have an answer. He has no transition plan. He is about to "let go" some of the most hard working and productive staff the company has.

If this is the culture of modern management then it is time to be scared. These folks are a like a bull in a china shop. It may not have been a well managed china shop, but now we know for sure that nothing good will ever come of it again.

Our new IT division manager had better watch his step. There are loads of employees who wish nothing but ill will upon him --and some of them have nothing left to lose...