One of the people laid-off is our IT person. I should mention that I had a very similar position to hers when I worked in private industry. I am married to wonder-geek so I know something about something when it comes to IT.
Our IT person is lazy and has a horrible attitude. In fact, last time around we’re pretty sure the only reason she kept her job was that she’d been showing up longer than our other IT person who was very competent and very pleasant. He landed at another position within the university and rumor has it will be our go-to person when our current hag IT person leaves.
A co-worker’s machine fails every time she turns it on so it takes her about 30 minutes every day to finally be able to log on and connect to the network. This has been going on for over a year. My machine has been slowly failing over the last six months but until it actually sets the building on fire our IT person won’t do anything. I received multiple error messages yesterday (one of them said Abandon Hope/run for your life) and her advice was that I should save more. Save more to the hard drive that’s about to smoke.
She also accused me of doing something to my machine. Yep, blaming the customer is always the best policy. Not that she would actually know if I did something to my machine since she can’t be bothered to come to our office or remotely connect to our machines when we send her Abandon Hope/run for your life error messages. My co-worker has given up asking for help because she knows it will never come. She’s starting a list of things to ask our new go-to person in July.
So, in this one instance, I’m glad we had to lay off people.