I asked for a raise at x startup company after a 1.5yrs there. The boss upgraded from his gasoline powered Audi to Tesla. and the boss’s boss cto probably got a sweet bonus. I was the only person in my time zone doing all IT stuff for my tickets physically possible. But then they thought I didn’t do anything all. I’m great at what i know and what i can accomplish, made ppl feel comfortable and did my job without any drama from my end. But never getting that pay raise bc the IT leadership added another layer of bureaucracy bc the then cto was leaving and allowed for competition to occur. And then a vp entered and tried to insert their self into engineering comp sci (design, arch, cost savings where adjusting for quality, speed, and time) shit and failed. And he was ousted…(shortly after me) overall moral of the story/expierence greedy as ppl always remain greedy even when someone wants a raise less than the avg price of a fast food meal…
That’s why I hate the annual “what did you do this year to justify your salary?” reports we have to do. It’s like…“Was everyone else able to do their jobs? Yes? Did we get hacked this year? No? Then I was doing my job”
When everything is broken they really don’t appreciate you producing the denied purchase request that explained that this exact scenario would happen without it.
Happened once to me when our bank of UPS batteries, of which every single one had failed, surprisingly didn’t keep our servers running.
Then C-suite ordered us to run the servers off of generator power, bypassing the UPS, and we got a bunch of magic smoke.
A career in IT in a nutshell
I asked for a raise at x startup company after a 1.5yrs there. The boss upgraded from his gasoline powered Audi to Tesla. and the boss’s boss cto probably got a sweet bonus. I was the only person in my time zone doing all IT stuff for my tickets physically possible. But then they thought I didn’t do anything all. I’m great at what i know and what i can accomplish, made ppl feel comfortable and did my job without any drama from my end. But never getting that pay raise bc the IT leadership added another layer of bureaucracy bc the then cto was leaving and allowed for competition to occur. And then a vp entered and tried to insert their self into engineering comp sci (design, arch, cost savings where adjusting for quality, speed, and time) shit and failed. And he was ousted…(shortly after me) overall moral of the story/expierence greedy as ppl always remain greedy even when someone wants a raise less than the avg price of a fast food meal…
Truth.
That’s why I hate the annual “what did you do this year to justify your salary?” reports we have to do. It’s like…“Was everyone else able to do their jobs? Yes? Did we get hacked this year? No? Then I was doing my job”
everything is broken
“What are we paying you for?!”
everything is working
“What are we paying you for?!”
When everything is broken they really don’t appreciate you producing the denied purchase request that explained that this exact scenario would happen without it.
Happened once to me when our bank of UPS batteries, of which every single one had failed, surprisingly didn’t keep our servers running.
Then C-suite ordered us to run the servers off of generator power, bypassing the UPS, and we got a bunch of magic smoke.
Luckily we documented everything.
no computer issues: “what do you even do here??”
Computer issues: “What do you even do here??”