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November 22, 2006 | Comments: (0)
IT to miss Turkey Day?
As much as 84 per cent of professional IT workers will have to work for some or all of Thanksgiving this year, a poll of 500 business workers by IT hosting provider Intermedia.NET has found.
The study, sent to me with a plug for the group's hosted apps as way to give IT a break, "found that 28% of IT professionals will get no time off at all, or will have to work overtime to catch up after the break".
As well as being more hard-working, IT workers were found to be more honest than their non-IT office worker counterparts:--Only 6% of IT professionals will "pretend to work to avoid relatives”; 14% of office workers are planning to do the same.
--Only 7% of IT pros will use work as an excuse in some way, such as to avoid helping out in the kitchen.
--Only 9% of IT professionals will deliberately ignore all work calls and emails, compared to 19% of office workers.
OK, I am skeptical now. IT: Are you going to miss all or some of the holidays just to keep Exchange chugging? And for who? They'll all be chowing down.
Posted by Mike Barton on November 22, 2006 09:41 AM
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For that one VP that will make you life hell on Monday becuase they couldn't get that all important email over the holidays so they missed the meeting and/or didn't have the numbers for their 8AM appt that they had been putting off working on for a week before the holidays.
No big deal but honestly I stay online to keep at least one step ahead of my users so I won't be their scapegoat. Its too damn easy/accepted to blame IT on their failures and there is precious little an admin can do to avoid the wrath.
IT support is most often a negative reinforcement system in that you rarely get noticed when things are working well but hell hath no fury like a VP scorned when things are not going as they expect.
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