IT Employment
by statykserver
by tvu4251
starting now, if you have not done so already, document everything you do during your 32 work hours week. Also document all the users requests, orders, whatever work-related you have. Be sure to log your times too, clock in and out, amount of time spent on each task/job/request. Stick to the 32-hours that you are ordered to do.
Then later when management questions why you have not done this and that, you have proof.
BTW, why do you have to stick with this company? with your experience, you should not have any trouble finding a better job with more humane bosses.
Good luck!
by dr dij
then I'd have 3 day weekends every week.
That is if there wasn't a salary cut.
Seriously tho, that was good previous suggestion, document what you do. The fact that you can't finish everything, even with a 45 hour week isn't your problem. Don't feel responsible. This is your companies problem.
All you can do is let them know. And if you weren't being paid by the hour, then you should have been leaving after 40 hours. If someone askes you to do something urgent, ask them if they'd authorize OT. If not, leave and tell them you'll get to it next day or soon as possible.
Don't goof off, when you are there. work all the hours you are paid for, kick a$$ but don't give them free hours ever!
that's what they are prepared to pay for, that's all they get.
Ok as a professional you might put in an extra hour or two to complete something, but not thirteen, even less so when 45 wasn't enough anyway.
Be efficient, get priorities, do what you can in the time allowed. If they want more than they have budgeted for they'll have to find the resource from somewhere, not your problem.
If your cut in hours has as I suspect seriously crimped your earnings, start looking for another job, sounds like they are going to rat sh*t anyway.
by stevecottle
Sure, I put in overtime as a matter of course, but then again, I'm salaried and generously so. If your employer feels the need to cut you to 32 hours, do 32 hours of good work and go to your second job. If wearing a beeper is a condition of your employment, take beeper time (including travel) out of your 32 hour workweek.
It's definitely time to look for a better position.
by dzz
I?d say if you don't see any growth opportunities in this company apart from all the hassle that you have to deal with, move to where you find the grass a bit greener! But to be honest, standup and face the situation, don?t just leave cos you couldn?t do anything about it. Anyone can change a job when the going gets tough, but you won?t learn any thing out of it other than to stick your tail in your hind legs and run!
What I would recommend is, use a ticketing system that would issue tickets and keep track of them once a request is received. I use Track IT, when ever there is an issue; people send email to the helpdesk email account, or maybe yours in your case. These requests are forwarded to track it using a feature built in the track it software as a work order or a ticket. Next thing you do is setup time lines for the nature of a work order and along with that you also set priorities. This is quite similar to one of the earlier replies you got regarding making a database, only this time your employers can see the amount of work you do, the time it takes to get things done, but above all you don?t have added work in the form of documenting each and everything in a home made database. Once you close a ticket it automatically puts down the time it took to resolve it, also you have to put down your resolution to it. At the end of two weeks or a month (which ever you prefer) you can now print reports to your superiors telling them what all was done and what was delayed because those dumba$$E$ cut down your hours.
Give it a try, I?m not recommending track it to you, but look for softwares that do something similar/ is more affordable and can help you in your situation.
Just remember bro, take every challenge as an opportunity to stive harder.
God Bless and all the best!
Chao!
by dzz
I?d say if you don't see any growth opportunities in this company apart from all the hassle that you have to deal with, move to where you find the grass a bit greener! But to be honest, standup and face the situation, don?t just leave cos you couldn?t do anything about it. Anyone can change a job when the going gets tough, but you won?t learn any thing out of it other than to stick your tail in your hind legs and run!
What I would recommend is, use a ticketing system that would issue tickets and keep track of them once a request is received. I use Track IT, when ever there is an issue; people send email to the helpdesk email account, or maybe yours in your case. These requests are forwarded to track it using a feature built in the track it software as a work order or a ticket. Next thing you do is setup time lines for the nature of a work order and along with that you also set priorities. This is quite similar to one of the earlier replies you got regarding making a database, only this time your employers can see the amount of work you do, the time it takes to get things done, but above all you don?t have added work in the form of documenting each and everything in a home made database. Once you close a ticket it automatically puts down the time it took to resolve it, also you have to put down your resolution to it. At the end of two weeks or a month (which ever you prefer) you can now print reports to your superiors telling them what all was done and what was delayed because those dumba$$E$ cut down your hours.
Give it a try, I?m not recommending track it to you, but look for softwares that do something similar/ is more affordable and can help you in your situation.
Just remember bro, take every challenge as an opportunity to stive harder.
God Bless and all the best!
Chao!
by techexec2
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This company is likely in very deep financial trouble. You could work on getting the management to understand you need more hours, but I suggest a different strategy. Their problem is that the company is going bankrupt. It doesn't have to be a "bad" company, just a failing one. Expenses are simply greater than revenues and management is unable to fix it.
Even if you convince them to pay you for 40 hours again, that is not going to solve their bankruptcy problem. When the company goes bankrupt, they might cut you to 0 hours because they have no choice.
You should look for a new job. Good luck.
by techexec2
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Ask yourself: Why I should hang on here? What are my career prospects here? What are my opportunities here?
You said you are the only IT guy. You're already the top guy. You cannot go any further in IT at this company. So, if you're going to go somewhere in this company, it will have to be out of IT and into management of the business itself. Do you want to do that? If not, why stay there? Why "hang on"?
You're the only IT guy on a sinking ship. Are you going to go down with this ship?
It sounds like this is your first real serious job (full time, career-type). It is always hard to leave your first real job. But, over your life and over your career, you're going to be doing it a number of times. Later in life, after you have gotten over the feelings involved in this kind of decision, you'll just make it. And, you will move on at just the right time. Not too soon. Not too late.
I can tell you this, if my management cut my paid hours from 40 to 32, I would immediately find other work and move on without any hesitation whatsoever, and I would never look back. This has nothing to do with insult or anything like that. That kind of change is a "trip wire" that indicates clearly it is time to move on.
The ship is going down. It's time to move on. All the best to you.
by techexec2
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When you are looking for a new job, it is GREATLY better to already have one.
If the prospect company wants to hire you, they know that they will have to entice you to come work for them. So, what they offer you will have good pressure on it that is in your favor.
In contrast, when you don't already have a job, if the prospect company wants to hire you, they know they can make a much smaller offer and still get you. And, they will do so.
Just another reason why the time to leave a sinking ship is before it goes under, not after.
by geo.howard
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