Is it just the organization that I work for....

[cderow]

or is it others as well? Lately, I have been bothered by the lack of projects going on at my place of business. Last month I had two big projects ready to take flight, now due to lack of funding (I work for a non-profit), they have all been pulled and I have been reduced to maintaining what we have. This bothers me mainly because what we have is a lot of slow, outdated machines that are slowly breaking down and this would have been resolved with one of the doomed projects that I could have implemented.>:-<

I have voiced my frustrations to my supervisor, but it just gets lost in the sea of other people's complaints. I explain that these projects will raise office efficiency, but I just get &quot;the economy is bad, so we have to cutback&quot; statement. I also don't think it helps that I am the only IT guy here, managed by non-techies. Has anyone else had these type of problems or is it just my workplace?

 

[KenCunningham]

This won't help, but I assure you you're not alone. We (local government) too are subject to the same constraints in budgetary terms, with projects being shelved or left incomplete due to lack of funds. We also have quite a number of 'legacy' systems running on hardware that is over eight years old. Not surprisingly, this hardware is feeling the strain and it is not unusual for it to break - a real problem when the manufacturers cancel the maintenance contracts because of the age of the machines! Explaining that these systems can only be maintained on a best endeavours basis isn't the easiest task in the world.

I guess my approach is to grin and bear it, there's not really any other option, regardless of how frustrating it might be. Hopefully there will be an upturn in the medium term which will enable you to fulfill your ambitions.

 

[cderow]

I hope that upturn comes soon! Thanks for your response.