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CIO is a tough job!
Posted by Chris Knudsen on March 5th, 2007
I knew it was bad but I didn’t know it was this bad. Apparently being a CIO these days is one step above janitor.
That’s really unfortunate.
Some of the best people I’ve worked with throughout my career have been janitors and IT people.
Enough said.
Hey, that’s funny, I was an IT manager at a janitorial company :p I reported to the CFO, but I couldn’t be a CIO because I didn’t have enough gray hair (I was told this by the CEO). Nice.
But I did CIO stuff. Strategy stuff. Sometimes the “most important” job was helping an executive keep their Palm synching… otherwise the world was falling apart.
Oh yeah, and then there’s the idea that a CIO would be able to do everything from corporate strategy down to the most mundane ones-and-zeros IT work. It was a huge stretch, but expected by everyone.
Left by Jason Alba on 03/06/2007