sir_digalot
01-16-2008, 04:33 PM
me and my buddy are in the same office and job, we are basically helpdesk people, even though we do all sorts of interesting projects and such, we are hourly employees, and often I will work from home remoting in and be at the general beck and call of the company, we get all the crap that is thrown our way, whether it be designing a new domain or disaster recovery system to building servers workstations and recently especially for my buddy spearheading the implemtation and a brand new phone system in all our offices, in short we do everything.
our pay raise was not even worth mentioning, it barely scrapes 100 a month, even though the company has had a great year according to all the big wigs, in addition to this, to add insult to injury we are paid well below industry standard....
we are basically told at most opportunities we are lucky to work here and it is a great opportunity to excel and thrive, even though the only way a promotion could happen is if our supervisor were to drop dead ( tempting prospect to be honest)
most recently the CIO goes to my buddy and our supervisor that he (the cio) did the new phone system, my biddy "helped out" and that the supervisor will make sure it all works ( which is not actually the case at all and will not be when it is all done)
also during this week they told me and him that we have to be in on monday ( the federal holiday) to supervise the installation of this equipment, and that we will NOT be getting O/T for it because "we will not really be doing any work" instead we may get a few hours off some other time..or something.
so is it wrong for us to be overly angry at the company asa whole, at our supervisor who never goes to bat for us when it comes to the crunch, the same guy always running around like a spastic chicken panicing about everyhting asking for every little detail of everything so when it comes to meetings we sit there like retards while he does all the talking, the other day he gave us a pep talk on installing VIDEO CARDS INTO WORKSTATIONS! which is funny considering he knows we cna build a system blindfolded with out teeth.
he makes everything overly complex too then when things do not turn out right or on time because he micromanages turns round behind closed doors and tries to blame us, in his defence not exactly blaming us, but also not mentioning that he was minutely involved in the whole process making it impossible to get things done.
added to the fact he is always after followup, somehting happens and less then a minute after wards he askes whats the status?? i have told him i will tell you when something changes.... if i do not say anything nothing has changed and any number of calls and emails will not make it go any faster!
so me and my buddy are really hacked off, at the treatment the compnay gives us......
so is it wrong to be annoyed or are we simply spoiled brats?
/rant
our pay raise was not even worth mentioning, it barely scrapes 100 a month, even though the company has had a great year according to all the big wigs, in addition to this, to add insult to injury we are paid well below industry standard....
we are basically told at most opportunities we are lucky to work here and it is a great opportunity to excel and thrive, even though the only way a promotion could happen is if our supervisor were to drop dead ( tempting prospect to be honest)
most recently the CIO goes to my buddy and our supervisor that he (the cio) did the new phone system, my biddy "helped out" and that the supervisor will make sure it all works ( which is not actually the case at all and will not be when it is all done)
also during this week they told me and him that we have to be in on monday ( the federal holiday) to supervise the installation of this equipment, and that we will NOT be getting O/T for it because "we will not really be doing any work" instead we may get a few hours off some other time..or something.
so is it wrong for us to be overly angry at the company asa whole, at our supervisor who never goes to bat for us when it comes to the crunch, the same guy always running around like a spastic chicken panicing about everyhting asking for every little detail of everything so when it comes to meetings we sit there like retards while he does all the talking, the other day he gave us a pep talk on installing VIDEO CARDS INTO WORKSTATIONS! which is funny considering he knows we cna build a system blindfolded with out teeth.
he makes everything overly complex too then when things do not turn out right or on time because he micromanages turns round behind closed doors and tries to blame us, in his defence not exactly blaming us, but also not mentioning that he was minutely involved in the whole process making it impossible to get things done.
added to the fact he is always after followup, somehting happens and less then a minute after wards he askes whats the status?? i have told him i will tell you when something changes.... if i do not say anything nothing has changed and any number of calls and emails will not make it go any faster!
so me and my buddy are really hacked off, at the treatment the compnay gives us......
so is it wrong to be annoyed or are we simply spoiled brats?
/rant