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Revitalise the Commons
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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Do you work for an organization? It's like if every department had to be profitable, and every single person had to directly generate money for the company.
I've worked for a company like that.
You don't want to work for someone who thinks Finance, IT or HR should be profit centres.
That's what I was about to say. A buddy of mine worked in IT at a place where it was decided IT was too expensive and laid off a bunch of people including him. It did not take long for something to go wrong and the company had to hire a "disaster recovery firm" to navigate the network disaster whatever it was.
The company continued to slide and almost went under until Oracle bought them.
IT will never be profitable because it does not produce any sellable value.
When everything is working:
Why do we pay you IT guys, of you're not doing anything?
When shit hits the fan:
Why do we pay you IT guys, of everything goes wrong?
Sometimes it does feel like that is the expectation. Well either generating money directly or decreasing spending directly.
Sounds pretty standard for US companies.