Empathy - HA! Do you even know the meaning of the word? It's one of those terms that chicklet toothed corporate suits like to whine about, along with the phrase "company loyalty", when their own ox is getting gored.
Gee, I wonder why the IT people are the first one's laid off?
It's because you just don't know. That's why you wonder. Ignorance. There's nothing really wrong with your lack of knowledge, provided you're attempting to lift yourself out of that hole. Are you? Trying? If so...kudos!
It's a real shame that GOD hasn't gotten over his Jim Cane complex yet.
God told me to be nice to you, and so I will.
>>>>That's about when my phone rings and I commence to milk them.
Gee, I wonder why the IT people are the first one's laid off?
Usually they are laid off because they are an overhead department, and in haste to make the current quarter look good at the expense of the future, the infrastructure is gutted. This is one of the three or four tricks MBA's know.
The contempt technical people feel for "Professional Managers" is universal to all such fields. Generally, most of my middle managers were promoted out of the lab to prevent injuries. They were propelled by personal greed, to collect bonuses on the efforts of those who were technically competent. This is probably the origin of the Dilbert cartoons, whose popularity seems to validate the theory!