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Current irritation: turnover.

Not apple turnover. No. Management turnover. I wonder why my employer cannot attract stable IT management? During the time I have worked at my current employer (nearly 8 years at the time of writing) I have had:

• Four managers
• Four directors (with the position vacant again at the moment)
• Four vice presidents
• Six CIOs

That's an average of a complete management turnover every two years! When you consider the time that it takes to get up to speed with the current situation when you start a new position, and then the time that it takes to begin changing things to your methodology, it's amazing that anything manages to be accomplished at all.

There are people doing the day-to-day work (that is, the engineering staff) that have been working for the company for over 15 years. That's a stark comparison...