I just realized the job, I was so hyped up about starting, fuckin’ sucks. I am just now reaching the end of my 90-day probational period. If I knew 10% of what I know about these people now I would have passed on the offer a million times. Anyways, lets put together a little list of reasons to start looking again.
1. Any company that makes employees put all their business expenses on their personal credit cards doesn’t give a rat’s ass about them.
2. Any company that makes it’s employees pay for the insurance on company provided cellphones and blackberries can fuck a goat.
3. An employer claims they pay for part of the employees medical benefits and then once your hired and make your elections you notice the price for health insurance alone is $256 every two weeks. How much are they paying? 3 cents?
4. An employer makes you work 3 weekends in a row and then you need part of a day off and they make you take it without pay. Not to mention you are a salary employee.
5. An employer uses you to fix employees’ personal computers because they make good money for the company. I don’t give a fuck if they make a bangin’ baloney sandwich. Tell them to call the fuckin’ GeekSquad.
6. You bring forward a proposal letting the employer know that the IT department is severely undermanned and they tell you they will keep acquiring new offices and you will be the single-handed IT department forever. I was told I could bring a friend in for contracting when needed. I asked “At what rate?”. They reply “$15 an hour”. Where can you find an IT consultant for $15 an hour and how do they survive?
7. Your employer wants to keep brand spankin’ new equipment as backup and use the old shit until it craps out. Where is the common sense it that? Let the new shit go obsolete just to get every last penny out of your Pentium 3 800mhz? Use the god damn old shit as a backup. Hell, computers are so cheap now days just order on overnight if it’s that much of a concern. We work a fucking mile away from Dell’s shitty shipping facility.
8. Your company’s gay owner needs a new laptop so you spec one out for him and he needs 7 different choices so he can pick the prettiest one. I’m not going to order you some bullshit. This is business class not some pink and yellow piece of shit laptop that we can’t get parts for tomorrow.
9. Contractors and consultants come to do work and warn you of how fucked up and how much they hate the company you work for.
10. Your told to do something and then your 10 bosses want to change every fucking detail of the damn project all the way until it’s time to actually execute it.
The network administrator before me should have left some kind of text file or something on one of the servers notifying me of the fucked up-ness of this piece of shit they call a company. No wonder she left after only being here for 3 weeks. I will make sure I leave some clues for the next network administrator.