Jeff Sessions: Obama's Impending Amnesty Burdens Americans, Benefits Billionaires

Conservative HQ ^ | 30 Oct 14 | Kassandra Smith

[Mr. Jeeves]

Nah, IT as a career path is already gone. If you are still doing it, it is imperative to use the time you have left to study for a career change. In a way, IT is a victim of its own success in the 90's: the function got so important - and so expensive - that senior managements vowed if the opportunity ever came they were going to do anything possible to get out from under what they perceived, then and now, to be a massive pile of overhead with marginal benefits. Now their minds are set, and they will never be able see an IT department as anything but a hard-to-manage cost center, to be trimmed back at every opportunity.

But that's actually OK. The need for automation hasn't disappeared, just the desire to accomplish it with a dedicated IT department. As Nicholas Carr predicted some years back, IT is being absorbed back into the job functions that use it. Being good at it gives you a leg up - if you are also good at a business function the company values. If not, then you will eventually find yourself in an ugly place - competing with the other "dedicated" IT professionals like yourself, who are located in Bangalore and work for $9/hour.

[bamahead]

I’ve actually been thinking of going back to school and finishing an effort to get legal degree I started years ago, and then specializing in IT compliance law and offering my services to corporate america in that arena - that is literally the only path I see forward for myself within IT. And we all know that Governments appetite for oversight will never be satiated. Otherwise, it’s time to start career #2 as you suggested.

[bamahead]

You presume that contract based IT project managers these days are actually concerned with code quality. Hint - they aren’t.

Their only focus are dates - deliver ‘something’ by this date so they get that nice bonus check for saving a ton of money by using managed services and still delivering on time and under budget. They know they can rely on the few remaining support folks who actually give a damn about the company and it’s customers to clean up the mess for them.

Take a look at the whole healthcare.gov effort and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about...

[bamahead]

IT is a victim of its own success in the 90's: the function got so important - and so expensive - that senior managements vowed if the opportunity ever came they were going to do anything possible to get out from under what they perceived, then and now, to be a massive pile of overhead with marginal benefits.

IT literally went from being a white collar profession (more of a management science) to a blue collar role right after Y2K. It was at that point that the transition you described so well above occured. And I don't disagree that some greed amongst some of the bigger consulting firms played a huge role in this. Billing out a Visual C++ developer at $200 an hour was not really in IT labor's long term best interest.

[Lazamataz]

Take a look at the whole healthcare.gov effort and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about...

This one sentence gave lie to all your others. :)

The enormity of the failure with healthcare.gov colored the perception for everyone forever. It was an abysmal failure, and in the real world the project would have gone belly-up outright. Only because this is government, does it survive.

Code quality matters.

[Lakeshark]

This is a huge problem, one of many reasons the fools who said we should leave this man in office were wrong.

Outside of impeachment AND CONVICTION, as Cruz mentions,there is little that can be done about it. No way 45 democrat senators vote to find him guilty and remove his executive orders, no way.

Once (if) he does this, the political fortunes will be almost impossible to reverse, heck they were already tough, with this executive order, without a major miracle we will surely go the way of a third rate country.

[GeronL]

healthcare.gov was not on time and under-budget

It was obscenely and ludicrously expensive and way late.

[VideoDoctor]

Is it just me or are we as SCREWED as it appears?

Every time I turn around someone points out and pontificates about what's occurring.. but NO ONE EVER DOES ANYTHING to curtail it.

Is that not a form of being "SCREWED?"

[xzins]

If immediately after the election Obama declares unconditional pardon for every illegal, what steps do we take that actually result in QUICKLY reversing that order?

With a split congress there is nothing effective that comes to mind short of challenging it immediately in the Supreme Court and having them immediately take it up and rule against it.

[bamahead]

It was a failure and it was well documented that it failed because the vendor and project managers cut major testing corners to meet dates.

[VideoDoctor]

There is no way to make even a short term PLAN until we see what comes out of Tuesday’s election cycle.

[apoliticalone]

Two Parties with leadership that have one mission - to keep only two Parties. The leadership of both create policies that are intended to divide us, while the policies benefit mostly the globalist string pullers and crony capitalists who play both sides by adding alternating bags of gold to a see saw.

Each Party uses a different strategy to leverage their power, like importing poverty while exporting our jobs.. Very few of their laws benefit America the nation and average citizens. The game is to create divide while the MSM keeps us clueless.

[apoliticalone]

Impeachment is off the table from the leadership of both Parties because the real owners of America want it that way. They didn’t want any of Bush’s giveaways, wars and policies investigated, and they don’t want any of Obama’s policies such as the bailout, spying on Americans, or changing America to an Hispanic nation investigated.

We need patriotic leadership like Jeff Sessions and what we have are puppets.