First post exclusively on the new, IT-focused blog. Cool.

We've had a lot of turn-over at my current place of employ lately. We've lost most of the Operations team and all of the Accounting team in the last couple of months. It's not hard to see why: those departments are caustic and frustrating. In contemplating the turn-over, I realized that I really like working in IT.

It's not just the technology. I like working with the people in IT. Sure, we have our share of jerks and anti-social Neanderthals, but even they are at least interesting.

Maybe I've been able to call the shots for too long. For the most part, I've been able to be choosy with the places I work and who I work for. That means I've been able to avoid the obviously dysfunctional organizations, or, as with my time at XanGo, I was in a position where I could keep the dysfunctional from entering the departments I worked in.

The best part of working in IT, though, is being able to issue the challenge "Show me." when someone makes some claim that I find dubious. In the end, it all comes down to something measurable. Fads, snake oil, silver bullets, and grand new things happen all the time here (as they do anywhere) but eventually every one of them hits the brutal wall of reality. The way things are in IT, reality's pushback comes sooner than later.