I have to say I agree. After working mostly as a technician/help desk with a company of around 800 employees for about a year, they decided to put another guy on the payroll.
In the following months they skipped over my review and told me i would not recieve one. On top of that I helped train the new IT tech that joined us and my responsibilites dropped off the table. On the average I probably worked no more than 5 hours a week (being in the office appx 45 hours total each week).
After a month of browsing the web, installing games, and doing generally nothing productive, I started bringing in friends computers to work on/fix for cash on the side. After word got around for a bit I found myself fixing on average 3-5 systems a week on company time and making a decent amount of extra pocket cash. Never got fired and eventually in the spare time I had found another job willing to pay me to work.
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In the following months they skipped over my review and told me i would not recieve one. On top of that I helped train the new IT tech that joined us and my responsibilites dropped off the table. On the average I probably worked no more than 5 hours a week (being in the office appx 45 hours total each week).
After a month of browsing the web, installing games, and doing generally nothing productive, I started bringing in friends computers to work on/fix for cash on the side. After word got around for a bit I found myself fixing on average 3-5 systems a week on company time and making a decent amount of extra pocket cash. Never got fired and eventually in the spare time I had found another job willing to pay me to work.