Any other IT managers lurking around?
This field is kind of unique for IT. Was just wondering if any other managers hung around the sub. Would love to share war stories.
[{"id": "cy0fx7x", "text": "i'm not in it but i'd like to hear some.  Holyshit the stuff you must see....... I pray to god you are far far far away from brokerage", "replies": [{"id": "cy0g4g5", "text": "Nope! We own/third party/and have our own brokerage. The user issues are a lot like other industries believe it or not. Attorneys are worse than brokers ; )\n\nThere are normal user issues, but I was referring to more of actually running the buildings, and how much IT is going to need to be involved in the future with new LED lighting systems that run on network switches. ", "replies": [{"id": "cy0gc08", "text": "why do they run on network switches?  What is the benefit to that?\n\nedit- nm i used the google.  that is pretty cool.  Are you seeing that in new build outs?  ", "replies": [{"id": "cy0gizg", "text": "They report back temperature in the room, run on power over Ethernet, and use 1/10th of the electricity. Since they are IP based you can tie them into your security/EMS system.\n\nLet's say CEO of a big tenant drives in the garage. When his car tag is scanned, the system can go ahead and light his office.\n\nOr let's say a conference room is being used and the lights are reporting a high humidity/temp - it can tell the EMS to lower the temp in the room. This saves the building staff a hot call. ", "replies": [{"id": "cy0uhjn", "text": "Where is this in use?", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cy14m74", "text": "data center design engineer at big tech company checkin in", "replies": [{"id": "cy14ykf", "text": "You guys just supply it services, or own any commercial real estate?", "replies": [{"id": "cy151m6", "text": "yeah we design and own all of our own data centers", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cy15n8d", "text": "IT project manager here whose family owns commercial real estate (mulitfamily).", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]