I am strongly considering looking for a new job. March 2016 will be 5 years that I have been with the company. I am an IT Professional, my job title is a Systems Technician. I am one out of 5 guys, 4 of which are in the same building as me. I find myself doing plenty of Administrator and or Engineer work as the other guys take days off. I don't mind it, and basically can run the place without anyone else here. However, I feel I am severely underpaid. Also, since I am one of a handful of men in my building, I am constantly asked/tasked with doing manual labor and general maintenance work.
Lately I have become somewhat upset with the general direction of the company. I had to fight very hard this year for a raise. We hadn't gotten any in a couple of years and was told that we don't give raises anymore. Unfortunately a percentage of garbage is still garbage. I had been only pushing for a fair wage for my position/field in the area.
I approached my boss last week inquiring about any training that the company would pay for. Looking specifically to get my CCNA and don't have a lot of spare funds to dedicate to that. Was unfortunately greeted with an "I doubt it" and "We don't even give raises anymore".
I am somewhat reluctant to leave. Really like a couple of the guys I work with, it was a laid back environment, will be getting another week of vacation this year. Health benefits aren't nothing to brag about though. I guess it's good it keeps the IRS fines away.
Some in the company must think I'm a receptionist. I'll get calls asking for X Y or Zs phone number, or I'll get called asking if my boss is in and to call his cell phone to ask when he will be in. Asked to re-key Word documents, send a list of e-mail addresses to a certain person who doesn't want to use the GAL. I don't know what they want sometimes. Does Rome need to burn? I'm here to make sure the ancient PeopleSoft domain and process schedulers are running, so AP, GL and Payroll's SQRs will run. Not to re-key a quality assurance policy.
We have been approved to hire an additional staff member. We are slammed and have been way too busy for way too long. I have about 20+ new laptops that still need to be setup. This has been on-going for a year. I strongly doubt we'll ever be able to get someone in here (at the low pay they want to pay) and or I'll ever move onto anything more advanced or solely IT.
Rant over. Tough choices. I just want to do IT. I'm good with SonicWall, Cisco, VMWare, Citrix, Group Policy, Active Directory, DNS and Exchange.
Lately I have become somewhat upset with the general direction of the company. I had to fight very hard this year for a raise. We hadn't gotten any in a couple of years and was told that we don't give raises anymore. Unfortunately a percentage of garbage is still garbage. I had been only pushing for a fair wage for my position/field in the area.
I approached my boss last week inquiring about any training that the company would pay for. Looking specifically to get my CCNA and don't have a lot of spare funds to dedicate to that. Was unfortunately greeted with an "I doubt it" and "We don't even give raises anymore".
I am somewhat reluctant to leave. Really like a couple of the guys I work with, it was a laid back environment, will be getting another week of vacation this year. Health benefits aren't nothing to brag about though. I guess it's good it keeps the IRS fines away.
Some in the company must think I'm a receptionist. I'll get calls asking for X Y or Zs phone number, or I'll get called asking if my boss is in and to call his cell phone to ask when he will be in. Asked to re-key Word documents, send a list of e-mail addresses to a certain person who doesn't want to use the GAL. I don't know what they want sometimes. Does Rome need to burn? I'm here to make sure the ancient PeopleSoft domain and process schedulers are running, so AP, GL and Payroll's SQRs will run. Not to re-key a quality assurance policy.
We have been approved to hire an additional staff member. We are slammed and have been way too busy for way too long. I have about 20+ new laptops that still need to be setup. This has been on-going for a year. I strongly doubt we'll ever be able to get someone in here (at the low pay they want to pay) and or I'll ever move onto anything more advanced or solely IT.
Rant over. Tough choices. I just want to do IT. I'm good with SonicWall, Cisco, VMWare, Citrix, Group Policy, Active Directory, DNS and Exchange.
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