Don't get me started
I hate marketing wank, truely hate it. I sometimes feel "Am I just moaning for no reason" then our old, now sadly left boss joined and agreed with me. We never fell for marketing bollocks, it was great. Avoid Dark Trace cause of it and shortly after they had a scandal.
Now, sadly, people have been in charge for over a year with no fucking clue. So all fall for the marketing wank. In our weekly meeting with an external partner I would point out "Moving fully to the cloud is going to be more expensive". Because I don't kiss arse in the office, because I just keep to myself, no one listens to me so I stopped saying it. And the "partner" kept jumping in and claiming no it won't. So they listened to them.
Role on months later and management have finally been given then bill and asking why its not saving money and is more expensive. The partner has finally admitted it will be more expensive. Everyone ignores I told them that on and off months earlier.
We are currently testing copilot with management using it to do their job for them but staying on same wage. I've said time and again, if not careful with it, it will cause a Horzion scandal.
Already has at DWP so they had to stop using it or double check its work.
Post Office have yet again fucked up with their "automated" system for checking stamp fraud that has, like the Horizon scandal, been charing people for arrived letters with "fake stamps" that weren't fake. So people had to pay for their post.
And finally we have copilot recording our meetings and then summerisies them. I know full well people don't bother to check the recording matches. Our last meeting it said I had said stuff that was never said in the recording. Those types of issues will be used years later in potential legal actions "Well Copilot said you said this in the meeting so you must have. So why did you miss those details and all those people died?" And you argue till yoir blue in the face that no, Copilot is wrong I never said that. "Copilot is never wrong and you're the only one this has happened to".
In a way, much like most, I'd love to retire early. Not much more I can do in other jobs. I still like IT but sick of people not listening and sick of the Peter Principle and increasingly sick of the cloud and subscription only fees instead of being able to buy the software on DVD. But it can never happen. Stupidly started work late so will have to continue till I die.