Where to jump back in.... Well, don't tell the suits, but if they hire somebody competent for more than what I'm making...I'd be fine with it. Of course, the problem is they haven't hired anybody competent since me (though some of it is my fault, since I was involved in some of those searches.)
Also the organization promotes incompetence... so those people that make more than I do....don't have any technical skills to back up why they get paid that. A few years ago....there was a system outage....director was demanding that we drop everything and come into work and sit around and look pretty like were doing something in the middle of the night. But, we were already chatting on IRC and working on the problem by remote, and we we're already on the phone with Sun. But, he insisted that we needed to come in so he could yell at us directly when his superior shows up... manager told him no, don't know what the director's response was going to be...because his superior finally walked in at that moment.... And, now the director position has been vacant for a couple of years now. Before that...our previous SA manager...who surprises us every now and then by submitting tickets showing how little SA they knew...got shoved aside (another SA manager was complaining at lunch today that we don't fire incompetence...) into what is an application administration position (though they apparently did try to make them a subordinate to successor, but new manager said no.) But the person continued to work under the 'manager contract'....so it took a couple years before new manager could official be a manager. As for me...as long as it pays the bills and I get to keep doing what I love...I'm good. Though location could be nicer....or having that little bit more so I can afford to go to more LISA's would be nice (though it wasn't just the cost of flying to and staying in Boston that stopped me this year.... This year's LISA conflicts with my dad's 70th birthday.) Also how much we can pay for a position is set before we advertise the position....we've always included it in the advertisements we do...though there's been talk from above that we should leave it out.... get more applicants. As a side note....last time we did a search (actually I guess last couple of times)....we made an offer, only to find out that the guy wanted an H1B transfer. Its not an H1B job....though it turned out he got it wrong, he was an H1B contractor to the headhunter that found him our opening and he needed us to contract the position out to the company he worked for. Yeah, the we and the state don't do that. Though while talking to immigration specialist...there was discussion of whether the position we had advertised even met H1B requirements...IE: H1B requires 5 years experience and a related degree....we don't require a degree and only 4 years experience. And, we didn't think we offered enough money for H1B....but according to the immigration specialist, the average salary for a system administrator in Riley county is $35k. (the position was offering $55-60k) In the previous search...the person revealed after the offer that he was only in the country on a student visa....g eneral counsel's office got involved that time.... ----- Original Message ----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tracy Reed > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:39:16AM -0600, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. > > spake > > thusly: > > > Though they've complained that its my fault that I accepted such a > > > low > pay > > > when I started, that it hard to find people like me that'll work > > > for > less > > > than what I'm getting. > > > > Heh...why is this a requirement? > > Try this on for size: > > Yes, you're approved to hire that person, and you can pay him $N > (But wait, he's my subordinate, and I only get paid $N-$M) > > If they offer your subordinate something more than you, then you > deserve a > raise. > > Lawrence, perhaps it's time to ask for a raise or consider moving to a > new > company. Wanna send me your resume? ;-) -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
