This IT department is the most difficult department to work in that I have experienced. Communication and sincere recognition methods do not work. Leadership is more concerned with promoting their subordinate "friends" who are less skilled and run the team like a high school click of bully's. Good employees have left over the years fostering a "watch your back" environment and misogyny runs rampant. IT Employee satisfaction surveys are a joke and things rarely are done to improve them if at all. Most do not express opinion for fear of retaliation and retribution.