The Departmental Newsletter (You’ve lost your mind)
March 31st, 2008 | by admin |I’ve worked with quite a few IT departments in my life, and I’m always amazed when somebody gets the brilliant idea to publish a departmental newsletter. I have no idea what motivates this. Who in the world cares? Would you read an accounts payable departmental newsletter? “10 exciting facts about the check printer”. How about a mailroom newsletter? “How to affix a stamp to an envelope with authority”. Surely you as an employee want to know the “logic” behind our customer numbering scheme (Sorry AR). So what on earth complels us as IT professionals to think anyone gives a hoot about the goings on in technology? We built a new server this week! Jim got some obscure certification! The help desk helped somebody! (Right). I’m just saying here, every other department in the company is smart enough to know better than to produce a newsletter, can we as nerds and our nerd leaders as well as our nerd middle management please just all agree to stop this practice?