I'm a consultant, salary and wish I was hourly. I'm expected to carry a pager one week a month, and work one Saturday a month. I am also expected to work late, work weekends, holidays, travel at a moments notice and recieve nothing to compensate my time. I wish I was hourly and could get some overtime, but I am salary and have to work all sorts of sick hours. IT support should form a union, I would join in a second. Ever since the Y2K scare I have been expected to work crazy hours and not recieve compensation for it. I am not making big bucks, because I am not MS certified, nor do I want to be. My raise sucked this year and was told that if I had passed at least three tests I could have gotten more. Everyone I know who works support and help desk are overworked, underpaid and under appreciated. When someone mentions unions, people act like you are talking about the devil. Not that unions are bad, but if the suits back in the home office drinking Sam Adams on lunch break caught wind of that we would all lose are jobs to the next round of paper MCSEs. I am desperately trying to get into web development, but it is slow learning when you don't have time to spare.
I have friends and relatives that are teachers and have heard on numerous occasions how school officials look the other way when it comes to bullies. The majority of bullying come from the "popular" kids who more often than not have affluent parents. Their behavior is accepted rather than irritate the parents, and there are even teachers who side with the bullies in the harassing. I guess it's easier to go along with picking on a kid than trying to stick up for them. Some of these adults seem like they are still trying to fit in with the "popular" crowd.
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I'm a consultant, salary and wish I was hourly. I'm expected to carry a pager one week a month, and work one Saturday a month. I am also expected to work late, work weekends, holidays, travel at a moments notice and recieve nothing to compensate my time. I wish I was hourly and could get some overtime, but I am salary and have to work all sorts of sick hours. IT support should form a union, I would join in a second. Ever since the Y2K scare I have been expected to work crazy hours and not recieve compensation for it. I am not making big bucks, because I am not MS certified, nor do I want to be. My raise sucked this year and was told that if I had passed at least three tests I could have gotten more. Everyone I know who works support and help desk are overworked, underpaid and under appreciated. When someone mentions unions, people act like you are talking about the devil. Not that unions are bad, but if the suits back in the home office drinking Sam Adams on lunch break caught wind of that we would all lose are jobs to the next round of paper MCSEs. I am desperately trying to get into web development, but it is slow learning when you don't have time to spare.
I have friends and relatives that are teachers and have heard on numerous occasions how school officials look the other way when it comes to bullies. The majority of bullying come from the "popular" kids who more often than not have affluent parents. Their behavior is accepted rather than irritate the parents, and there are even teachers who side with the bullies in the harassing. I guess it's easier to go along with picking on a kid than trying to stick up for them. Some of these adults seem like they are still trying to fit in with the "popular" crowd.