Having worked over 4 years in a large international law firm, I have seen my share of corporate politics and BS to last me a lifetime. One of my biggest annoyances and frustrations were with IT managers, directors, and executives who simply could not say “no” to a managing partner when he/she came to us with some half assed request for something that was technologically impossible or not feasible to implement. These “yes men” would first say yes, pass off some widget project to us, and expect us to perform miracles and magic tricks to make it happen. When we can’t deliver on the project, these managers would pass the buck and blame us, the engineers and admins, for their poor lack of judgement and inability to manage properly. Please feel free to share your stories about incompetent and stupid IT managers who should not be in IT with their lack of technical and management skills. In my opinion, having an MBA does not make you a good IT manager if you can’t distinguish realistic requests from bogus technology.
