IT BS thread

Time to extend that vacation and toss the phone.

 

If you're on vacation, you shouldn't be looking at those. Turn that shit off and get away from work.

 

I'm a 1 man show, my phone started ringing before those emails came in. It's no big deal, there will be compensation for me being bothered.

Apparently they blew up a 480v panel in the plant.

 

Ouch.

 

Hahaha yep. I also manage the CCTV system, phones, administer the servers, pull Cat5, manage the wireless.. you get the point.

Wireless in a building that is constructed fully of stainless steel panels is hell.

 

I used to do that too.

I'm happy that I only kinda do now. If I'm not around, there's another dude that could do it, and if he's not around, there's two others that are competent enough to be walked through many of these kinds of things remotely if needed.

I'd have to get a pretty fat payday to be a true one-man show again at this point. I'm gettin' too old for that shit.

 

In my experience, you have to be a specialist to get fat paydays. Places that want one man shows typically don't want to spend the money required to hire a few specialists.

 

This is very true. I stopped doing the one man show thing; bigger companies pay better with fewer hours and responsibilities typically. However, I live in an area with lots of bigger companies to choose from.

 

I dunno about the fewer hours thing. I had 58 last week at a company with 200k employees.

 

It's a small company in a rural area. I average around 60 hours a week.

 

You get paid for 60 or 40?

 

I'm hourly.

 

Lucky. I get paid for 40 regardless of how many I work. I think my longest week was around 80 hours.

 

This thread reminds me why I chose never to become IT anywhere.

 

...and I wouldn't do anything else for a living, even if I were as good at it as I am at being a sysadmin.

I love what I do. I get to help people, I get to yell at people, I get thoroughly mentally and intellectually challenged, I get knocked in the teeth every so often, and they *expect* me to be grouchy and drink.

How can you not love this job? I make enough to live comfortably on and barely made it out of High School, with no college degree. There's not a lot of options to make this kind of $ without student loans that don't involve the adult film industry.

 

I know this depends on where you work, but the 'on call' thing, or getting paid for 40 hours while working more doesn't sound fun to me.

 

I wouldn't do anything else either. Love it and hate it at the same time.

 

Hear hear. It may absolutely suck sometimes, but most jobs do. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, if you have the stomach for it.

 

What you don't like working 70-80hr weeks for 40hrs of pay?

Don't work for my company. I do get 3 months of paid vacation/sick time however.

 

Do you get to choose when to use vacation time? And will they bother you during your vacation?