by Thomas Wailgum

10 Warning Signs Your IT Career Is in Trouble

News
Feb 10, 2010

Meetings with weasely consultants. Nicknames that would make teenage girls cringe. Learn about all the red flags that indicate your IT career will soon explode like a bad bottle of Mountain Dew.

A Meeting with “The Bobs”

A consultant (usually named “Bob”) schedules a meeting with you to discuss “how people at your company spend their day at work.” Not good. Because you know what’s coming next: “What would you say ya do here?”

Meet the Mall Cops

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Your upcoming performance review looks so terrible that the HR administrator has asked Tim and Gene (the company’s “friendly” security guards) to “sit in” on the meeting, “you know, just in case.”