Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@Dashrender said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
First was for a conference I wanted to go that I gave them more than a year warning about - and at 6 months, the boss's kid decided to have a destination wedding the same fraking weekend - man I was pissed!
And isn't there coverage for stuff like that, rare one-off important things?
Heck, it is carnival weekend here and we are checking on who wants time off and figuring out who will cover for them and we are so much smaller.
Sure - there is coverage - a MSP we call when I'm hit by a bus... but that's not her POV. Her POV is that basically one of us needs to be onsite to be the point person for any such problems. I don't agree with this, but I'm also not the one in charge.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
Heck, it is carnival weekend here and we are checking on who wants time off and figuring out who will cover for them and we are so much smaller.
You're smaller in a totally different way though. i.e. you're not smaller in in company IT resources.
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@Dashrender said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
I've now had vacation denied twice since starting here.
First was for a conference I wanted to go that I gave them more than a year warning about - and at 6 months, the boss's kid decided to have a destination wedding the same fraking weekend - man I was pissed!
Second time now - MangoCon 2019 week. This is a bummer, but my request came after the overlapping request was submitted.
For the first one... I'd call that one a 50/50... A lot can change in a year. I probably would have been upset about that if the boss wouldn't at least try to figure out a way to let me go.... what would have happened if you had been deathly ill during the time you could have gone to that conference?
The second one, I kinda get... Somebody else beat you to the punch, lol.
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@Dashrender said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
Heck, it is carnival weekend here and we are checking on who wants time off and figuring out who will cover for them and we are so much smaller.
You're smaller in a totally different way though. i.e. you're not smaller in in company IT resources.
Your boss isn't an IT resource either
It's just "people out of the office".
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@dafyre said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@Dashrender said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
I've now had vacation denied twice since starting here.
First was for a conference I wanted to go that I gave them more than a year warning about - and at 6 months, the boss's kid decided to have a destination wedding the same fraking weekend - man I was pissed!
Second time now - MangoCon 2019 week. This is a bummer, but my request came after the overlapping request was submitted.
For the first one... I'd call that one a 50/50... A lot can change in a year. I probably would have been upset about that if the boss wouldn't at least try to figure out a way to let me go.... what would have happened if you had been deathly ill during the time you could have gone to that conference?
The second one, I kinda get... Somebody else beat you to the punch, lol.
why wouldn't the same apply to both - I beat her to the punch, she beat me to the punch.
As for being sick - at least I'd be sick at home - and likely easily reachable. Of course - if I was hit by a bus, she likely still would have gone to her wedding, and the MSP would be oncall as my replacement.
When I put my time in a year+ in advance, I'm rarely asking for US based holiday time off - so the chances of a specific overlap are generally pretty low. That year was no different - the mom - my boss, just didn't bother to look at what was already on her schedule when telling her kids she was free. but no point in hashing over it now.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@Dashrender said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
Heck, it is carnival weekend here and we are checking on who wants time off and figuring out who will cover for them and we are so much smaller.
You're smaller in a totally different way though. i.e. you're not smaller in in company IT resources.
Your boss isn't an IT resource either
It's just "people out of the office".
Already said - she wants one of us to be here to run the problem.
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@IRJ said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv still there?
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@IRJ said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@IRJ said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv still there?
He seems in and out, here from about a week ago, evidently he's training someone:
@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
To begin a detailed, thought-out, plan of finding a competent replacement. Start looking at quality job boards, map out job requirements, etc. Be reasonable, efficient, mindful.
Instead they panicked that I was going to walk out and leave in a couple days. They rushed to find anybody with basic knowledge of a computer from the local staffing agency and threw them onto my lap with little consideration. Now I'm trying to train a person with no experience and fairly rudimentary knowledge. Plus they dumped all these demands for an encyclopedia worth of how-tos, procedures, vendor notes, troubleshooting guides, etc.
It's funny but also sad. One day the new person was there and I was at home, sick or something. A shared network connection in Windows got disconnected which made an app pop up an error. New person tried to troubleshoot the app, perhaps not knowing the shared network drive existed. So boss asks if I've already written a specific procedure for this specific app when having this specific error caused by this specific problem.
I'm just like, no, I can't write a procedure detailing every conceivable error that can happen on every one of 50+ vendors we deal with, lol.
The IT person is supposed to know how to troubleshoot issues, not just read from a procedure book encyclopedia written by the previous IT person!
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He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.
A person like that lacks the dedication required to really belong to this
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@tonyshowoff said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.
A person like that lacks the dedication required to really belong to this
cultforum.#cultofscottalanmiller It's a bit long for a good catchphrase.
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@travisdh1 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@tonyshowoff said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.
A person like that lacks the dedication required to really belong to this
cultforum.#cultofscottalanmiller It's a bit long for a good catchphrase.
Why not #cultofSAM ?
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@dafyre said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@travisdh1 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@tonyshowoff said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.
A person like that lacks the dedication required to really belong to this
cultforum.#cultofscottalanmiller It's a bit long for a good catchphrase.
Why not #cultofSAM ?
I lub me some surface to air missiles.
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You all are really great. I think I just have most notifications off so I do pop in sometimes at random.
Scott's Youtube vid was really helpful, if anything just to put into different words the ideas already swarming in my head that something just isn't right here.
Anyway, my hours have been cut more for the last few weeks, just training the new guy a couple times a week now.
I think I'll turn in a one week notice this week. One week means 2 days, 2 weeks notice would be 4 days, etc.
I can give them 2 or 4 more days.
They hired some IT service provider for like $600+ a month to do random stuff we don't even need, but mostly be an IT backup phone if ever needed by the new guy. The dollar bills in my eyes are kinda saying, screw paying them $600, just pay me $600 retainer and I'll answer emails from the new guy and maybe do a few more advanced things like web dev. But that is contract rates, they would only get about 20-30 minutes of my time a day, max. Is that worth a retainer? Just for a few months or something? I suppose they can contract me just like any other client who comes calling. So I'm trying to decide whether I completely cut ties, or let them keep paying me to aid the new inexperienced person.
I know even if I try to cut ties, I will not escape the occasional communication, I just know it.Unfortunately, Scott's video did bring up another point about whether I'm quitting or they are firing. I've set myself for basically having to quit, rather than be let go, which probably doesn't work in my favor. Oh well. At this point it can't be framed as them letting me go.
I hope the next time I enter this thread, it will be to declare I am finally gone. Then I can wipe all my past threads away and start fresh with a new journey! lol
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@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
You all are really great. I think I just have most notifications off so I do pop in sometimes at random.
Easy enough to fix
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@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
Scott's Youtube vid was really helpful, if anything just to put into different words the ideas already swarming in my head that something just isn't right here.
Awesome, thanks.
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@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
Unfortunately, Scott's video did bring up another point about whether I'm quitting or they are firing. I've set myself for basically having to quit, rather than be let go, which probably doesn't work in my favor. Oh well. At this point it can't be framed as them letting me go.
Well, while that's true, you can't really force them to fire you
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@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
I hope the next time I enter this thread, it will be to declare I am finally gone. Then I can wipe all my past threads away and start fresh with a new journey! lol
Fingers crossed. Good luck to you, my friend.
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@dafyre said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@travisdh1 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@tonyshowoff said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.
A person like that lacks the dedication required to really belong to this
cultforum.#cultofscottalanmiller It's a bit long for a good catchphrase.
Why not #cultofSAM ?
#SAMcult
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@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
They hired some IT service provider for like $600+ a month to do random stuff we don't even need, but mostly be an IT backup phone if ever needed by the new guy. The dollar bills in my eyes are kinda saying, screw paying them $600, just pay me $600 retainer and I'll answer emails from the new guy and maybe do a few more advanced things like web dev. But that is contract rates, they would only get about 20-30 minutes of my time a day, max. Is that worth a retainer? Just for a few months or something? I suppose they can contract me just like any other client who comes calling. So I'm trying to decide whether I completely cut ties, or let them keep paying me to aid the new inexperienced person.
I know even if I try to cut ties, I will not escape the occasional communication, I just know it.You are one person. They are a cross-function team with different skills you might not see, and also they have SOMEONE who can work 24/7 365. You occasionally might be at a wedding, or in Maui or just might not feel like picking up that day. There is a large premium on this.
