For christ sake, if some one sends me another email in all caps and talks down to me like a child, I may go postal.
This most recent blackberry outage has made me realize that although I love the technical aspects of server and network administration, the end users (from CEO on down to entry level analysts/officers/associates, whatever–they are all overpaid) suck balls and are the scum of the earth.
Don’t yell at me because your device is not working. Your time is not more valuable than mine, time is time. I don’t yell at you when you violate the company IT policy. I treat you with respect and ask you to refrain from certain actions, and I don’t act like an impatient child. Please excuse my lack of professionalism, it’s been a trying couple of days.
I’d be curious to know if anyone else can understand my frustrations of being underpaid, underappreciated and yet with the ability and power to bring a company to a grinding hault – dismount mail store? Yes, I think I will.
What is it about this profession that people whole heartedly disrespect. The advantage I have in controlling and routing information gives me a keen insight into the workings of an office and based on the emails I’ve read and problems I’ve solved, I’d say that most of the people in my office are severely overpaid, borderline lazy, arrogant and annoying. And yet here I am managing all of these users, maintaining the critical infrastructure of the company and am treated like a second class citizen.
And then I go on Craigslist to look at job openings and see all of these “executive assistant” jobs making 70K plus for “organization, 5 yrs experience, and knowledge of MS office”. Are you kidding me? Then I search system administrator and the offerings are maybe 50-60K, “5 yrs experience, must be organized, familiar with TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, BES, certified and adept in 20+ software vendors, etc. Is it just me or is something fundamentally wrong?
