Told ya 🤷… you and others just have no idea how desparate things are around here, that’s why most people blame me for not updating… I believe 90% of people around here that said that, if they were in my shoes, they’d do the same 🤷.
I don’t blame you at all. I’ve worked at a place that have sucked my life force away like yours. The saying “no good deed goes unpunished” comes to mind. Patching servers and fixing infrastructure issues gets rewarded with getting blamed for any server or app issue going forward and then fixing said issues on top of your current workload. Getting out of that hell hole was one of the best decisions I’ve made.
Patching servers and fixing infrastructure issues gets rewarded with getting blamed for any server or app issue going forward and then fixing said issues on top of your current workload.
Exactly! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Unfortunately, every IT job where I live is more or less like this. Sure, there are some that are not, but are not a whole lot better paid than what I currently make… and because of certain life decusions I’ve made, I currently can’t move or work abroad. In 10+ years from now… maybe… we’ll see… I hope so. So, basically, I’m more or less stuck here with this job. I could quit and find something else, but my current budget doesn’t allow to go even for a month with no pay… so if I do, it’ll have to be a quit today - hire tomorrow kind of a thing, which most companies around here don’t do (they wanna squeeze as much free labour out of you as possible, so even if they don’t go full pay for a month or two, that’s a win in their book), so… again, not really an option currently.
Told ya 🤷… you and others just have no idea how desparate things are around here, that’s why most people blame me for not updating… I believe 90% of people around here that said that, if they were in my shoes, they’d do the same 🤷.
I don’t blame you at all. I’ve worked at a place that have sucked my life force away like yours. The saying “no good deed goes unpunished” comes to mind. Patching servers and fixing infrastructure issues gets rewarded with getting blamed for any server or app issue going forward and then fixing said issues on top of your current workload. Getting out of that hell hole was one of the best decisions I’ve made.
Exactly! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Unfortunately, every IT job where I live is more or less like this. Sure, there are some that are not, but are not a whole lot better paid than what I currently make… and because of certain life decusions I’ve made, I currently can’t move or work abroad. In 10+ years from now… maybe… we’ll see… I hope so. So, basically, I’m more or less stuck here with this job. I could quit and find something else, but my current budget doesn’t allow to go even for a month with no pay… so if I do, it’ll have to be a quit today - hire tomorrow kind of a thing, which most companies around here don’t do (they wanna squeeze as much free labour out of you as possible, so even if they don’t go full pay for a month or two, that’s a win in their book), so… again, not really an option currently.