Comment Benefits? what benefits? (Score 1) 246
Yup no one really cares how things get done, or even why the get done. Nor do bosses, such as mine, care or even understand how techies tend to work. I'm paid to have my tail in a chair for 40 hours a week, carry a pager and can't even leave town the same time as our other admin/engineer cause something MIGHT happen (to cheap to pay for global paging and laptops). On call 24/7, required to stay at work whenever something fails until it's fixed, and provide support to customers and everyone else when it doesn't work the way it always does
I wouldn't complain, if it weren't for the fact that I don't make twice the national average, hell I don't make more than 25k a year, get 1 week vacation a year, no stock options and benefits consist of "Dedicated Internet Connection" on a phone line I pay for out of my check that makes working at Wal-Mart look tempting.
I'd leave and go to another company but that'd violate my no compete clause. So while I and the other engineer's and admins polish up their resume's, we await the final death blow of this ISP. Then I won't complain as much, if for no other reason than the fact that'd I'd actually be making enough money to no longer qualify for food stamps.
So complain and complain I will, but only for another 1.23 minutes. After which my lunch hour is over and I have to get back to making sure my boss can play freecell faster than all hell and look at all the webpages to find more things wrong with the system to complain about and tell us to fix.
I wouldn't complain, if it weren't for the fact that I don't make twice the national average, hell I don't make more than 25k a year, get 1 week vacation a year, no stock options and benefits consist of "Dedicated Internet Connection" on a phone line I pay for out of my check that makes working at Wal-Mart look tempting.
I'd leave and go to another company but that'd violate my no compete clause. So while I and the other engineer's and admins polish up their resume's, we await the final death blow of this ISP. Then I won't complain as much, if for no other reason than the fact that'd I'd actually be making enough money to no longer qualify for food stamps.
So complain and complain I will, but only for another 1.23 minutes. After which my lunch hour is over and I have to get back to making sure my boss can play freecell faster than all hell and look at all the webpages to find more things wrong with the system to complain about and tell us to fix.
