On 05/09/14 09:04, Brodie, Kent wrote:
Titles are, in my opinion, mostly meaningless.
Titles can be very important when they are wrong or misleading. Management --
at a layer far removed from the day-to-day work -- will ask HR for information
on the staff. Management will use the titles as reported by HR to make plans
and decisions.
Assume, for example, all the sysadmins have the same "wrong" title or set of titles ("computer
operator" in this case, which is a mainframe type title). Management gets a report that says that the
company has a bunch of "computer operators," but they know that they got rid of the mainframe years
ago, and since then they have made a big effort at automation (what you are in fact doing). So they make
plans to eliminate the operator positions, as part of the cost savings that they expect from the IT
Operations Automation project....
--david
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David Parter
Director of Academic Computing Services
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department
[email protected]
608-262-0608
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