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Current irritation: turnover.

Not apple turnover. No. Management turnover. I wonder why my previous employer couldn't attract stable IT management? When I wrote this, I'd worked for that employer for nearly 8 years. During that time I had:

• Four managers
• Five directors
• 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 managed to be accomplished at all.

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