What's worse is that I don't enjoy my job anymore. When you don't look forward to going to work or talking to people about the work, it may be time to move on. My career is at a standstill at present and has been for some time now. I'm not allowed to touch computers in fear of a contract violation (sounds like a court order, doesn't it?) and I don't manage anyone. I manage information that is painfully extracted from those who care about these things less than I do. I see the job now as a futile effort to get things done and make things right. IBM has hosed this all up and there is almost nothing else to take apart. I'll say this: it takes at least five days to install a desktop printer and there is nothing I can do to make that any faster. Everything is officiated and nothing is efficient in State Government I.T.
So I just don't like it anymore. All we've been doing for three months is bitch and moan about how IBM/Dell/AT&T have come in and screwed everything up and GTA let them do it. And nothing has happened as a result of it. We are absolutely powerless. The things we say make a whole lot of sense, but no one hears it. It's like telling the CEO that the server has a security issue, to which he replies "...hmph. We'll have to look in to that," while never making eye contact. He doesn't care what you're saying. The sun is up and people are at work, aren't they? Everything is grand!
I am beginning to feel as if I'm rambling. I am losing the organization of my thoughts and that means it's time to quit writing for now.
