This Business and Moment...

[Yaayuh!]

I do not want to work here anymore. I'm not even sure i want to work in IT either. I don't know what i want to do.

The only thing i do know is that if I stay here I'm likely to end up getting fired or hospitalised.

Anyone else reached a brick wall in the job/career and not know what they wanted to do?

 

[dr_volki]

granted it depends on what you're working on. When editing photos for example, the bigger the screen, the better! Loved working on my 27" iMac when I had that. Beautiful display.

definitely, may have been the old hardware i was given before, but the 27" i currently have at work isn't actually physically bigger than the 24" i had before.

currently use the dell U2715H so minimal plastic border on the sides and top

 

[dr_volki]

I do not want to work here anymore. I'm not even sure i want to work in IT either. I don't know what i want to do.

The only thing i do know is that if I stay here I'm likely to end up getting fired or hospitalised.

Anyone else reached a brick wall in the job/career and not know what they wanted to do?

what's up?
i have but usually a holiday has sorted me out

 

[Phate]

I do not want to work here anymore. I'm not even sure i want to work in IT either. I don't know what i want to do.

The only thing i do know is that if I stay here I'm likely to end up getting fired or hospitalised.

Anyone else reached a brick wall in the job/career and not know what they wanted to do?

I have questioned my career in IT many times over the years. I've hit a few brick walls. I normally find it's WHERE I am working that is causing this though. A change of this and better management renews my interest and I continue.

Time for a change and a break?

 

[Steeps]

Got twin 27"s at home, added the old 22" too with two of them in portrait and it feels like a lot of real estate. If I'm working with a laptop then I'd prefer to go for the biggest highest screen resolution it could run and use the laptop as the second screen on a stand.

 

[BF-Bert]

I do not want to work here anymore. I'm not even sure i want to work in IT either. I don't know what i want to do.

The only thing i do know is that if I stay here I'm likely to end up getting fired or hospitalised.

Anyone else reached a brick wall in the job/career and not know what they wanted to do?

I continually come up against brick walls, but I just plough straight through them...... it does help that I am a demolition contractor though

 

[Yaayuh!]

what's up?
i have but usually a holiday has sorted me out

I have questioned my career in IT many times over the years. I've hit a few brick walls. I normally find it's WHERE I am working that is causing this though. A change of this and better management renews my interest and I continue.

Time for a change and a break?

Time after time my professional opinion/view is ignored and I end up having to ask for acceptance of me waiving my responsibility before I execute their idea/demand/alternative.

They're starting to ask more and more of me, which i am putting my foot down to. Instead of working 10 and 12 hours days like i did last month, I'm working my 8 and taking my lunch.

I've been here 9 years now and it's clear that means **** all. In that time, the company has grown significantly and IT has done a lot more, with less people doing it...

My colleague is a complete cowboy and nobody understands why he's still employed since ALL of the exec have had firm/strong words with him for one thing or another, yet he's allowed to run wild. The reason is "commercial value" apparently...
He also took on the development management and outsource it all, which saved money (brownie points from the exec) but deceased quality, drastically. But it's okay, we can deal with the mess if it's costing less....

The options around here are the 'correct way', 'wrong way' or 'cheap way' these days. The 'cheap' way is basically the 'wrong way' but just enough parts of the 'correct way' for it to function, barely.

The problem is, I like IT, but more of a Sys Admin/Manager role where I get to play with budgets, projects and general support. I do not ever want to get stuck doing one subject/area of IT, I would get bored VERY quickly.
This basically leaves me with small-medium size businesses, where they're usually financially/sales driven and have low IT budgets and "get by" where IT is concerned and I'm put off now.

At the moment I'm thinking I just want to do a job Mon-Fri with the least amount of hassle and stress for the money and live outside of it. But I fear this will work against depression that I'm currently feeling a comeback on. I'm feeling nihilistic too, which doesn't help.

I've been advised to create a linked in profile, which I'm starting, even though it makes me cringe (a long with all other social networking sites). I've jazzed up on my CV, but it's mainly experience than qualifications, so that's where I'm going to fall back moving forward. I joined here when I was 21 and prior to that i just went to college and had a 1st/2nd line tech support job. This place has taught me A LOT, enough to be the entire IT dept (except development) of a company of 80 users.

I've tried to think of jobs/paths I can go down that match with hobbies. I like HiFi/AV, PC hardware & overclocking, gaming and motorbikes. None of which are really going to be feasible for a career that I can think of.

 

[AHarvey]

I do not want to work here anymore. I'm not even sure i want to work in IT either. I don't know what i want to do.

The only thing i do know is that if I stay here I'm likely to end up getting fired or hospitalised.

Anyone else reached a brick wall in the job/career and not know what they wanted to do?

Yes, 7 years in the gambling company. 3 years of hell because I stood up to a bad manager (written about it a lot on here) and I went in after a great Christmas but i'd had to work nights over xmas and new year. Sat in a meeting listening to the same old ****, stood up and said "I quit"

4 weeks gardening leave, no savings, some cash in hand jobs from mates + some photography/photo editing and back in to a new company within 3 months. Money wise, I'm still 50% under where I was when I left but I am pushing the IT side of things now.

Either start looking for new roles because it'll give you a light at the end of the tunnel, things get so much easier when you know you won't be doing that **** for the rest of your life.

What about your own training company? or maybe go contracting or consulting?

 

[Phate]

I've been here 9 years now and it's clear that means **** all.

Get out. Seriously. Find something else. I know you explained why you feel your options are limited but even so. You WILL find something which suits your circumstances and where you're not faced with such a toxic environment that you're describing.

LinkedIN has the potential to be an amazing tool. Get connecting with recruiters, stick up in your profile that you're looking for opportunities and you'll start getting phones calls before you know it

Stay positive & focused. There is light at the end of the tunnel

 

[Diagro]

i got fed up of being an IT support bod and went into teaching.

Crazy amounts of work. But so worth it! I actually enjoy it... apart from the paper work.

 

[AHarvey]

Interesting day today.

Swamped and running around like a loon, typical Monday morning issues where the gremlins have been in all weekend messing things up.

People kicking off about equipment allocation, "why are they getting new equipment? it was my idea!" kind of thing then one girl saying "hang on, I wouldn't set that up yet!" To which I replied with "Tough ****, it's already set up and I've too much else to do to **** around changing things all the time!" which kind of goes against my normal work behaviour and it shocked a few people even though that's standard for most people there.

I then get 2 emails from our tech director, the first asking me to research how to lock down an area on moodle for a select group and another asking how familiar I am with XML and JSON.

5 mins before home time and the old IT guy comes in that now works in the call centre and tells me that he's spoken the the manager and he's going to be doing 2 days a week doing my job because I'm moving on to other projects... Nothing I know about anyway.

Then I come home and have a LinkedIn mail from a company called Abcam about an Online Media Specialist position in Cambridge...Never heard of them before, seems to be a multi-national science company selling bioproducts such as antibodies. That would be one hell of a challenge to sell online.

 

[HungryHippos]

I like the freedom my current job offers (as long as the job gets done I can actually take the time to work on things properly!), but I do feel that the buzz word of "O365" could drive the company I work for to stop offering services on our own tin eventually, and to simply become a mediator between Microsoft and the customer.

If that becomes true then the work will obviously become less and less interesting, as effectively everything becomes managed by the behemoth that is Microsoft, and truth be told, that leaves little else to do.

Right now our USP is basically that we are not Microsoft, and in case of issues/problems we can actually investigate and look into things with no barriers to doing so, but the flip side is that our services are generally Microsoft centric, which also means we are at the mercy of whatever Microsoft are releasing for us to leverage, they are quickly turning into a cloud-first business with little regard for much else.

The positives at the moment are that work is generally busy, and I am in a good team of individuals who are all capable of thinking/working for themselves, so we work well as a team. This has also meant that our up time on services is pretty damn amazing with a fair few 100% months in the last year

I'm not sure what routes I would like to go down if things change too much here. Maybe development would be my next port of call, but I have no formal development skills as such, just whatever I have investigated and done myself (reasonably proficient with SQL, PowerShell, and written some ASP.NET C#).

 

[randomshenans]

It's a difficult one really on that, there is a lot of change going on in the industry with cloud offerings and such.

I've had a busy week, with new starter and contracts being sorted out, he's virtually meeting the team this Friday. I've also got a call scheduled on Tuesday with someone more technical, he's a spark/ cassandra tech guy, who I'd like to manage the systems and sit below Professor Roger and Infra Dave.
Interviewing part time CFOs at the moment as well, got a couple lined up. Need someone to sort that **** out so I don't have to.

Got another pilot of our software arranged last night, that's currently 3 lined up since the start of 2017 and have 2 more demos tomorrow and a couple of follow ups. Need to work so hard this next few weeks to pull all this in. Had 2 people now email us asking when our D2L Learning Management System plugin will be ready, which means we need to get one knocked out sharp.

I am so tired and full of cold, but it's manic! I jsut want to sack off cooking for the wife and go to sleep lol plus side I just booked my flights to US next month, takes me back over to BA Silver tier again. I'm currently Gold, but going back down to Bronze would have been just too much #needloungeaccess

Also, left side of my body is ******. Elbow clicking, knee in pain and thumb hurts. Need to find time to get to the doctors this week for scans, just don't know when I'll have the time.

 

[Phate]

So it's day 2 of me working my notice period and my boss has started! Knew it wouldn't take long!

In a nut shell. My fiancé became very sick overnight. Throwing up, the sweats etc...Unable to keep food or water down. Really rough.

So I said I'd stay home and work from home and take care of her. So I sent an email to the team, copied them in saying I'd be at home for at least the morning but to catch me on Skype or the phone if they need anything. No worries!

Fast forward to lunchtime, I've had a really productive morning and had to go to the pharmacy for Ana. She's not going to work at this point so I decided to stay home. I hadn't heard from the boss at this point. So I go to the pharmacy and get the meds, come home and have an email from him with HR CC'd in.

Dear Jacob,

As previously informed, home office is not a standard working model unless duly coordinated with the Department's Manager.

For this reason, I'm unable to justify your absence today.

Please feel free to present an alternative justification for your absence (e.g.: medical declaration of your fiancé).

Thank you,
Your D*ck of a manager

So I haven't responded. I've just shut the laptop off and now I'm on the sofa with Ana with her asleep and watching a movie. Both her parents and brother are Doctors. So we'll have a note to present to him tomorrow. He'll shutup then and he's lost half a day's work from me.

If he wants to play this game, then I'm down. I REFUSE to feel bad for staying at home and looking after Ana when the technical director did the same the other week and my boss "worked from home" 4 days over the past 2 weeks....One thing I cannot stand is hypocrisy.

What's the worst he can do? Fire me? Awesome. I might be able to start at Microsoft a bit sooner.

Ah well.

 

[AHarvey]

My response would be:

Dear **** of a manager,

As my fiancé was incredibly sick I had one of two choices, either phone in and take the entire day off leaving my work to pile up and with my resignation date looming I'd like to get as much done as possible before I leave for Microsoft, or I could follow your example and that of the Technical Director and work from home, have a very productive morning and look after my fiancé knowing that I am also leaving you in a better position when I leave for Microsoft.

Due to your email I've stopped work for this afternoon and will provide a doctors note as requested tomorrow.

Many Thanks,



I know how you feel though, having had my own job advertised for having 3 days off with food poisoning and they thought I was off with sick kids and it shouldn't happen again...*******

 

[Phate]

I won't give him anything. Tomorrow I'll give the note to HR and bypass him completely. It will infuriate him no end.

Like I say, if he wants to play, I will. I want to leave amicably. But if he wants to be like this, then so be it.

 

[dr_volki]

well just seen this - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170118
may get the wife to sign it as i can't
in other news had a word with my line manager and he's kind of hinted at a permanent position at x salary, which isn't high enough. however looking a the PAYE rate i was given, in case we need to change over to PAYE come April. The salary is actually higher than the hourly rate. Guess i'll have to have word with the agency to get my rate completely revised for now until i find something else

 

[AHarvey]

"Stu, I know you're swamped but I need you to take 30 mins out to train someone in something you've never used, in about 30 mins when you have you lunch!"

Just another perk of the job lol

 

[Neural]

I won't give him anything. Tomorrow I'll give the note to HR and bypass him completely. It will infuriate him no end.

Like I say, if he wants to play, I will. I want to leave amicably. But if he wants to be like this, then so be it.

How did it go?

 

[Neural]

"Stu, I know you're swamped but I need you to take 30 mins out to train someone in something you've never used, in about 30 mins when you have you lunch!"

Just another perk of the job lol

Thats crazy mate lol what was he looking you to train them in?