I did to some degree. But I have to be cautious as it's also bonus time.

If things come together right, I will be turning in my notice they day after my bonus check is deposited.

 

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You gettin played fool.

I was in a management meeting and brought up promoting this kid and giving him a raise. They were like, just promise him a raise and promotion. And I was like, will we revisit it next review? And they were like, "Revisit telling him? You can do that whenever you want."

The key to american labor today is to make them think you're on their side even though you clearly are not.

 

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Handling IT crises because the company can't/won't pay for either modern equipment or professional support. I'm at work right now attempting to save 'the' outlook database (which I know jack about) from a corrupted HDD that is about ten years old on a server running Windows 2000 (which I know jack about).


I wouldn't mind so much if they would pay for some actual training osemthin, but I've been keeping things running mostly on google fu, and eventually that is going to fail me.


Now I need to come up with an awesome server solution for this tiny company, not knowing much about servers or solutions


But your situation sucks Tali, gratz on the review though.

 

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You perhaps overestimate how much people care to remember about your personal life.

In any case, we both know you would be supportive of a union that would block someone like you from getting a promotion based on merit in order to give it to someone else who had been there longer.

 

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its often the only way to get a raise too.
when i was wrenching cars, i never spent more than 4 years at one place.
id take a stack of old ROs and say this is the revenue i do in a day/week/month, etc. and then tell them how much i expect to be paid.
if they laughed, i got up and walked out.

now i make too much money to be able to do that and i have to sit and wait patiently for the opportunity to present itself while secretly schooling myself and studying new material.

the great thing about being a good mechanic is that once you can trouble shoot a complex system, you can go anywhere and work on any complex systems with just a little reading of base material.

 

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Thats pretty true - its much easier getting a promotiin/raise/respect by taking a new job.

Good job private, back in the line!

While I agree that this is commonplace, it is also the sign of bad management. You can get away with it in lower end jobs, but the higher skilled the job, the less effective it is.

Right now, due to the economy, most employees have little choice except to take the abuse that management is putting on them (and management is taking advantage of it as much as they can). They are gritting their teeth and waiting for their chance to leave. That does not bode well for the companies that are treating their employees that way.

When economic growth finally strengthens and employers start having to actually compete for employees, the abused employees will tell their employer FU and go work someplace else.

That's all kinds of scary. Outlook DB - not an exchange server?

And the solution to your server problem?

http://www.vmware.com/

Vmware may be too expensive, but server virtualization is the solution generally speaking. One physical server can be used to launch\manage hundreds of virtual ones. My current company has saved millions doing this.

 

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I talk about my job and my state constantly and have since I started posting here 8 years ago. I don't assume people care, but it's information that is definitely hard to avoid.

And your analogy is terrible, like normal. It's like saying you support getting shot by your neighbor if you are for the second amendment.

 

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