Re: Kinda what we all thought....

From my experience as an engineer on local govt IT projects, the above is pretty much what I expected of full Govt IT work. There are some good people in there, just not enough and from what I know, they don't get enough control/influence over the work itself, because they don't have Prince2 qualifications of whatever it is that Project Managers claim gives them the ability to completely override calid, lucid technical arguments.

Example : Two rooms in a building, one wifi, one wired, order some machines PCs, half of the allocation of machines per room, but don't order any wifi cards as the project manager expected them to be installed on the computers out of the box...

Who got the blame on the site? Me. Who sourced, tested and bought the wifi cards and saved a large amount of face with the clients? Me. Who got the praise? Project Manager.

One of many interesting jobs I've been mixed up in. Which is why I'm getting the hell out of there instead of wasting my time and effort cleaning up other peoples messes.

The easiest way of putting it is that if people like this had to work in a real company, they'd be out the door before they could arrange their desks.

Shame I might have to wear a suit to work, turn up before 9am, and actually work for a living now, eh?

Yours,

One Anon happy to be out and still looking for that elusive first 'real ' job.