The base pay is low (although, as mentioned above, there is the availability of a bonus.) IT is disconnected a lot of the time - they are disorganized, communication is lacking to an extreme, and they don't understand the business. In the meantime, IT receives a very large share of the budget, to the detriment of the business side of the organization. And the new management reorganization of departments impacted people to a highly negative degree in certain departments. In other words, for departments that merged, employees in the larger departments reaped the lion's share of the rewards and promotions, while employees in the smaller departments saw their work diminished and/or overlooked, and promotions rescinded.