Background: working for a major pharmaceutical company on the west coast doing IT support as their MSP. Light help desk work, nothing major. Company “A” is bought by another, larger pharmaceutical company, “B”, and now suddenly responsible for Servers, Networking, projects etc. in addition to my day job as MSP
Rather then do the smart thing and onboard me full time, taking me off the MSP role, I’m essentially getting split between doing my day job as an MSP, and being the sole network engineer/project manager/server support at the site. Naturally, both my own HR and Management teams seem unsure about how to approach the company responsible for this, so I’m taking matters into my own hands.
Naturally, both companies seem rather confused about how to handle simply paying me correctly and hiring more people, so I’m planning on leaving in the middle of several major network infrastructure / Server projects which have deep implications for the site. They’re welcome to bring in some other random help desk jockey from my company, however there’s no promise that they won’t end up leaving the exact same way.
It’s hard to imagine sometimes how easy the concept of just paying better escapes some people, but here we are.