So I’ve been working as a tech support technician for the past year, this started as a Kickstarter opportunity to get my foot in the door to kickstart my career, within a month of starting I was already performing to the same standard as most of the senior guys on my team, since then I’ve also taken on domain and mail server management, become tech specialist for all the new toys we get and work a majority of the escalation cases we get where they need someone to sit down and put nearly all their focus on the more complicated issues, with a perfect performance record. So I’ve practically jumped up the ladder in terms of experience, yet I’m being paid the bare minimum and couldn’t argue that until my probation was over.
unfortunately the last few months have been hell with major outages and servers going bang, alongside the actually good guys I worked with jumping ship like it’s the titanic, so a fat raise is more than justified given the circumstance.
I had my 1 year review last week, we discussed how far everything has come since me joining, plans moving forward, to the point of having me involved in service reviews with suppliers and sitting in on meetings which is primarily our directors and upper management of our suppliers, all big things.
Now here’s where things turn sour.
So a few weeks ago I came down with covid, unfortunately I’m part of the high risk bracket where complications could kill me, I spoke to my doctor over the phone on what I should do and to get signed off so I could focus on getting rid of it, I even had to buy a pulse oximeter to monitor my oxygen levels in case they started dropping and would have to be hospitalised, luckily all was fine and I got over it pretty quick.
This came up in my review and because of that 8 day period, they want to extend my probation another 3 months instead of giving me my full contract, in turn forfeiting any mention of a pay rise, but still want me to do what I’m doing and more. No other reason, just that absence.
Fuck. That. You. Fucking. Snakes.
I’m currently 1 of 2 on our team who can actually work on domains and emails, let alone everything else I’m already having to train everyone else up in, and yet one of the lowest paid (I’ve already asked around and we’re a pretty tight-knit bunch)
So I think this short-lived journey has already run it’s course. I’ve updated my resume and put it out there for some recruiters, within 12 hours, I’ve had my phone blow up and I’ve got quite a few people to call back on Monday regarding opportunities. The kicker being because I’m not on that full contract, my notice period is 0 days and some of the opportunities I have had sound right up my alley.
Good luck replacing me you snakes, I’ll be watching the flames with a smile visible from space.
Sorry for crappy formatting, mobile Reddit is ass.
TLDR;
Worked my ass off to be one of the best at my job, management won’t give me a raise because I didn’t feel like dying but want more still. Oh well, I’ll go somewhere else then and enjoy the flames when that powder keg goes up.