Not to be mean, but IT professionals tend to be a bit off the beaten trail and anti-social. When the IT outsourcing boom to India began in the 90's ... where companies found they could replace one well paid tech worker in the US with three in India ... the companies took glee in giving the American Tech Workers the heave ho. Unfortunately, the Americans who were laid off also tended to be the individuals that built the IT systems to begin with. The American IT workers knew the peculiarities of the systems, their idiosyncratic nature, their back doors. None of this information appears in tech manuals, or was turned over to their replacements, of course. So, basically, with the layoffs, the companies dumped the most sensitive knowledge that ran the systems that powered their business onto the streets in the memory banks of techies who frequently viewed themselves as screwed by the situation.
Executives don't consider this when they enjoy the reduced FTE and payroll.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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