Antiwork

My friends said I should share this story here. I was working for a data center performing network admin duties as a contractor for $27 an hour. They hired some new management staff and hired all the other contractors as employees except me. I asked for a position 65k with benefits and 2 weeks vacation. They kept putting my offer off for weeks and I finally put it my notice. I was living in a building that wasn’t rented exclusively by the business with some of the other employees and they arranged with the landlord to have me kicked out. Two months later when they realized how specialized the work is I was doing for their particular operation, they are calling me to tweak the network, set up redundancies and vpns. I’m now charging them $240 an hour, working far less hours and making more money. I almost feel like…