I need to rant

[Drunken Monkey]

No one employs self taught people anymore.

I'm mostly self-taught. I only employ/contract self-taught and experienced engineers and techs, which lots of contractors are anyway. I won't touch 'certificate only' people.

[Drunken Monkey]

I generally had the same 'agreement' as mr Ixion when I was a salaryman; regardless of whether my manager agreed to it or not, but you have to make yourself valuable enough when you are needed.
I get paid by the hour only for billable work now, so when I'm idle I'm not making any money and late night call-outs and 10-12 hour days on weekends (just like the one just passed) are worth the extra $$$ from penal rates. Suits me fine, certainly doesn't work for everyone though.

[SwanTiger]

Besides how often do you hear somebody being introduced at a party as "this is Bill, he's an IT worker" and then hearing the pin drop for about 10 metres around you??

Haha, ammusing.

[bugjuice]

For you, Snipe..

[Brian d marge]

Hey well done on this thread, Burn out is a VERY real possiblilty, been there not fun at all.

If you like the job , then you need to be sitting with your boss and coming to an agreement. If its just a job Start looking or asking around , and IF you do need to get a bit of paper , Stack shelves in a supermarket, or some form of physical work ( part time ) and go to the polytech
Best thing I ever did, I realy enjoyed it. ( btw Helen, the cheque is in the post )

I am ( as are others it seems ) also in the middle of a contract renewal ...My boss is trying the hard ball game, He is a bit childish and will cut off his nose dispite his face.

So within the next month I will be either unemployed or back at the coal face ( Actually I want a holiday ,,,a loooong holiday ,,,so unemployment wouldnt be so bad )
Strangly enough I was typing My cv out and even I was impressed ...( damn that not me is it ...) Qualifications , certificates iso 90 million ,,,you name it , fat lot off good those are ...

But I have had my fill of working for idiots who think they can manage ( management is a skill ,,thats why they pay ...IMHO ) you know the ones , rise from the shop floor and think that by intimidating people they are effective . I swore to myself that I would never NEVER work for a seagul manager ( love that ,,,swoops in makes a lot of noise and leaves)

So I do the thing I love best Myself ( make bike parts in the morning , race the CR in the weekends and something completely different in the evenings (teach Kids). We are thinking about expanding the bike side ,,,so another reason why unemployment would be cool, it would focus me more !!!

Anyway these are my feelings. What ever you do, there is more to life than work., especially when the balance is lost .....

Stephen

[Sniper]

Sorry to hi-jack your thread Sniper.

No you are not. You are meant to be a head above the rest, you are a policeman and are meant to set an example.

[Sniper]

Thanks guys, the support here is great. Trying to get a meeting with the boss, but he is ignoring my calls.

Time to disconnect his network, he has to speak to me then

[Bren_chch]

man... sounds like u got a sweet life!

[justsomeguy]

No one employs self taught people anymore

I only employ/contract self-taught and experienced ............................. I won't touch 'certificate only' people.

You need to come to Auckland Sniper a lot of employers/managers think like Drunken Monkey.

Is the market in Christchurch so small that employers can get away with such behaviour or is your's an isolated case as far as you can tell??

As a youngish graduate (graduated at 21 with about 3 pretty wankable qualifications) I had a hard time getting any decent job, the moneys sorta ok if you can bullshit your way through a salary negotiation but everyone wanted experience.

See if you can talk to the IT managers at companies you want to work for not the HR/PR rep. Most of them would know exactly how you feel and for those that don't you're better off not knowing them.

Now - pull a sickie - just do it. Go to a GP if you need a cert.... just say you are feeling tired and have a bad headache which can mean anything and will easily get you a medical cert for 2 days off. Don't shave - just wake up and brush your teeth and go there all groggy...

PLEASE DON'T GO GET DRUNK/STONED LIKE THE OTHERS SAY.

Then with the rest of the day go for a ride/date with the Mrs. /get some sleepin' and lovin'/ preferably all of the above.

Next day pull another sickie and think about all the stuff in this thread and get on the phones 1st thing in the morn to some managers or specialised IT recruiters and www.seek.co.nz

If you have that Doc's cert they can do NOTHING about it and it's the truth as you ARE stressed.

BEST OF LUCK MATE I wish you success in doing whatever you have to do to sort this.

[Ixion]

Trouble with pulling sickies is that when you go back to work there's so much broken shit waiting for you, that broke while you were away, that you have to put in even more long hours to catch up.

The lusers don't stop stuffing up just 'cos you're off sick, alas.

[ZeroIndex]

damn that was a good comic Buggy... hehe

[justsomeguy]

Trouble with pulling sickies is that when you go back to work there's so much broken shit waiting for you, that broke while you were away, that you have to put in even more long hours to catch up.

The lusers don't stop stuffing up just 'cos you're off sick, alas.

"Shit" always keep happening, that's the way life goes. Computers can be fixed or rebuilt or replaced, time on the other hand.....

I dunno...... in this case I'm inclined to think "hell with the little white boxes for two days".

[Swoop]

Hey easy! I never looked this good until I joined up, - jealous prick!!

I thought chicks like men in uniforms???

[myvice]

Toss the phone on your boss’s desk and tell him you’re having 3 or 4 days of to use some of your time owed to you.
Just do it caus if you don’t it will take over what little remains of your life!

[Shadows]

Get them to sponsor your study then. You'll get time out and a bit of paper to support your knowledge. Some papers even have acknowledgement of prior learning - stuff you learned at work.

LOL yeah I'm sure there's some spare time between midnight and 5 am to undertake some study!