A Wall Street Journal blog post claims "information technology pros will go extinct if they don’t start thinking about their jobs differently." The item, sourced to a single analyst, is a flop as a trend report. But it's a wonderful snapshot of the resentment corporate workers feel toward bureaucratized IT departments.

It's not the enthusiastic geeks they can't stand, it's the control freaks who ban iPhones and create 18-month projects for themselves that could be replaced by Google Docs. But oh, the hate: “Get out of the data center,” snaps the analyst. "Eat lunch with the regular people." I tried that once. The regular people got up and left.

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