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Getting Paid Fairly When Job Responsibilities Spiral?
greymond writes "I was originally hired as an Online Content Producer to write articles for a company website as well as start up the company's social media outlets on Facebook and Twitter. With budget cuts and layoffs I ended up also taking over the website facilitation for three of the company's websites (they let go of the current webmaster). During this time the company has been developing a new website and I was handed the role of pseudo project manager to make sure the developer stayed on course with the project's due date. Now that we're closer to launch the company has informed me that they don't have the budget or staff in place to set up the web server and have tasked me with setting up the LAMP and Zend App on an Amazon EC2 setup. While it's been years since I worked this much with Linux I'm picking it up and moving things along. Needless to say I want to ask for more money, as well as more resources (as well as a better title that fits my roles), but what is the best way to go about this? Of course my other thought is that I'd much rather go back to writing and working with marketing than getting back into IT."
Maybe he talks in monotone?
A loop, by its nature, continues. If that didn't make sense, start reading this sentence again.
Using a typewriter.
No. This. Is. How. Such. A. Per. Son. Types.
Don't you mean:
Because it's like a console. To UNIX and *NIX people, this is very cool. I suppo
rt his posting in monotype, and encourage him to continue doing so. Long live th
e console!
Specialist Mac support for creative pros, Melbourne
Monotype is a corporate standard across the entire company called you.
Captain Kirk! Is that you?
That's actually the big problem. And the more qualification you require (not because you think it's cute to have a triple-PhD changing your lightbulbs, but because they're utterly worthless if they don't have the qualification), the worse it gets.
As a former boss of mine said "There's three qualifications for this job: Good. Available. No pertinent convictions. Pick two. You can't get three." It's very true. For some jobs you just cannot find fitting people. And WHEN you finally get an applicant, you may rest assured that he fits into the "cute, but clueless" drawer. Oh, there's billions of people out there who can slap together a web page, and hey, they can do JavaScript. Why not apply for a job where they ask for intimate knowledge of IA32 assembler? Wikipedia said it's a programming language and, hey, programming is programming, right?
*facepalm*
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt
it was really quite hypnotic
*horror*
When I was last in the corporate world, we strictly acquired perks like nicer chairs and our own white boards via commando-style raids. We would actually have strategic planning meetings for the raids. The 8 pm Network Operations shift change was our standard time, and the 5th floor our standard target.
That said, the OP will never get what he's worth at his current job. He deserves it. A great boss would give it to him, but it'll probably never happen. He's in the corporate equivalent of the "friend zone." His best hope for exploiting the situation is to get as much experience as possible, and the most inflated title possible, and try and use that as leverage when moving on to the next job.
I was hired as a data entry grunt for my first job as a programmer. I got something like a token 50 cent an hour raise for the move because management valued me, and appreciated the fact that it turned out I was more skilled than they initially expected when I was hired for the grunt job. But, there was no way they were going to double my salary after I had already demonstrated I was willing to do higher level work for the entry level pay.
So, in conclusion, it is a tactical error to do all the work you can without getting any of the money upfront; and the fifth floor will never muster adequate defenses to be able to repel (or even track) an elite squad of NOC monkeys.
I am an extremely meek person ...
I think this should be a usual problem - how do you people solve this?
I would suggest you see a well-reputed CBT therapist for about 10-20 sessions during the next year.
Meanwhile he pockets the other 3%.
On moving on:
"That's another way we recognize our best employees"
-- Ever so sage Dilbert
From on of my favorite Dilbert strips:
An employee is being interviewed by the manager. He asks, "How do you reward your best performing employees?"
The manager replies, "We increase their workload until their performance becomes average."
It's a perfect time for being wasted.
A perfect time to watch the stars.
- Burden Brothers, "Beautiful Night"
Nevermind, I don't want the raise anymore.
Table-ized A.I.