Ah, Sweet Vengeance

I am not one for vengeance for vengeance's sake. But, I can appreciate when it is artfully or cleverly enacted. Case in point the play that is making its way through the IT higher ed community. It is entitled, "A Failure of Character or The Ruination of a University IT Department - A Most Lamentable Farce of Four Acts As Performed by a Company of lavishly-paid IT Executives (Each one a Worthy Tragi-Comedian)" by P.C. MacGoogle, Layoffee of this Borough. It of course chronicles the spiral of the UW IT department which magically ran up a $10M deficit and laid off 66 of its employees. As the back cover explains, "These scenes from a disaster in the making will chill the soul of every application developer, network engineer, project manager, database administrator, documentation specialist, middle manager, and software engineer who has labored under powerful but fundamentally misguided IT leadership. Read it, weep, and shudder.