Even when companies PROFIT over a billion in a quarter it is still NOT ENOUGH!
"We need to cut IT expenses".
Somehow I think that they think they have IT by the balls because of the economy.
It WILL flip around just as it did 10-12 years ago. Big IT will be left with mediocre employees, and NEEDING to get the job done.
I can state that I have been with the same BIG company 12 years(lazy?) and have not gotten a raise in over 4 years. They think I make too much for what they think I can get somewhere else in this economy. NEVER about the employee(except the BIG BOYS), always about what Wall Street might say.