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IT is hot hot hot

thomaslfowler — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:07:23 +0000

It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes..

Sorry, wrong context. The IT market is hot, sources say. It’s just sizzling, but commenters out there are wondering where the steak is.

From programmer to hospital janitor?

thomaslfowler — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:07:36 +0000

Record high IT employment! Four million happy cube dwellers can be wrong. Record low IT unemployment!

Comments on articles like this always provide an alternative viewpoint not addressed by the authors.

One note is, if IT employment is so good, then why would there be a salary survey that shows salaries over the past year to be pretty flat.

Millions of IT jobs in the purple haze

thomaslfowler — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:50:30 +0000

http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Workplace/Computer-Jobs-Hit-Record-High/?kc=BLBLBEMNL07092008STR4

Unemployment among computer-related jobs hovers near historic lows as the U.S. information technology workforce tops 4 million for the first time.The size of the IT workforce in the United States has topped 4 million workers for the first time last quarter, according to CIO Insight’s analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. And the number of employed IT pros reached 3,956,000 in the second quarter of 2008, also a record high.

Don’t forward this article to someone you care about

thomaslfowler — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:07:34 +0000

because if you do you’re trying to tell somebody that he/she is about to be/get RIFT’ed, canned, made redundant, let go, fired, downsized, rightsized, eliminated, pink-slipped, sacked, terminated, relieved of duty, given the opportunity to explore other possibilities, laid off, etc etc. You get the idea.