Thread regarding Williams Cos. layoffs

I don't think the CIO is interested in doing things efficiently. Not interested in the tough calls, he cut many of the wrong people giving him political advice and he didn't know how to cut through it.

Thanks, are you saying they should have not terminated people in 2016, if so I agree.

This IT accounting system is flawed because the "Build" and the "Follow-up" dollars are never added together to see the true total cost of a project. Project Managers keep them separate on purpose to show On Time, On Budget, then off to the next one - but it is the system they must work in.

The IT Center of Excellence way of doing things is to roll out a solution on time, with bugs, missed user needs. Then the end user's cost center can pay for fixing problems when the user yells. Force the users to then deal with someone that didn't build the solution, that person has to go to the builder of the solution anyway. Add some more meetings with others that have no idea what is going on.

I blame the end users equal to IT for not holding IT accountable up front. No one is accountable.

Much money wasted, then they lay off people to cut costs.

The good IT people are punished for trying to get it close to right the first time when they are really the cheapest solution.

Most managers or directors "Leaders" aren't going anywhere, unless they are forced out.

That is correct; waste a career at Williams, but laugh all the way to the bank.

Face the facts, what Williams did last year wasn't right. Unfortunately most companies are like this and some are a lot worse than Williams.

Nothing you can do about except ignore it, if you want to keep your job and keep making the big bucks. Most have decided to do this and a few lucky ones have moved into better opportunities, that's life. It will happen again no doubt about it, but isn't going stop people working at big companies, too many perks and benefits.

No sense in sticking around in this environment, the computer field is booming. I could see it, if you canning find a job, in that case s--- it up and do your job and keep looking.