How to answer Sarbox whining

Have you shown your IT guys any love today? There's a chance they feel the way this guy does, writing in InfoWorld: "In addition to my personal and management duties, I am a member of the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance team. My dilemma is I am sorely under-paid and under-recognized. No one in senior management cares what I do. They have no idea what servers we have or what OS they run. THEY DON'T CARE!!! All they care about is, 'Does my email work?'"

This is the IT guy at a small company that just went public. The answer: "You've focused your attention entirely on services that are invisible unless they break. You're doing a great job of supporting the core business infrastructure. Yawn. If you want to be noticed, start engaging the business at a new level: Where you'll be noticed when good things happen." The problem with this is that at a lot of small companies, there's neither the time nor the resources available for such stretching.  

For more:
- here's the InfoWorld article

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