I moved to a small town to pick up an IT job, which I have been in for 1 1/2 years. I was out of school for a year and a half, doing nothing in my field except for helping my friend do a few consulting jobs. I have an Associates’ degree in Comp Sci/Networking, A+ cert, and MCP. The job I have is desktop support, a far, far cry from networking. I have been passed over for three networking jobs. Two times I wasn’t even given the benefit of an interview by my manager and one time the other job wasn’t even posted, just granted internally. My co-worker is the other half of the problem. She is considered “cute” amongst the male management. I think they need to get to a real city to see what cute is. Anyway, just recently she was doing a job that had high priority. She had two days to do it. She blew it off, emailed me on the second day after I went home, saying that she couldn’t complete it and would I finish it. I come in the next morning and find emails blaming me for not having it done! I sent my manager and the production managers the email that she sent me saying she didn’t do it. My manager sent an email to the production managers “apologizing for my behavior”. This is not the first time something like this has happened. About six months ago, my manager made her my “boss”. She has no education or certs, just seniority. I couldn’t believe it. This is my only real experience to go on a resume. From what I read, the IT field is not on a hiring streak. My director told me that they don’t really want to move me out of my site, because “I’m more valuable down here”. I have learned some client-based wireless and can troubleshoot our wireless system pretty well. Which, by the way, my co-worker (boss) cannot. My first manager was awesome and I really enjoyed my job. He made what he told me, a lateral move, because he didn’t like the office politics. My director, who has saved me from a lot of what I have described, is leaving in January of 2005. So the cream has separated from the milk and the milk is spoiling. I can’t believe I worked two jobs and went to school for this. Has anyone ever gone through this that can offer some advice? I would really appreciate it. Happy holidays.
