Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Mine isn't a GS position. It's a company that has a gov't contract to provide services (people) in these positions. Which is where the system breaks because the gov't mandates how many slots are available to a contracting agency and those can get cut at any given time depending on the need of those slots. My position is thankfully pretty safe from gov't cuts seeing as I'm the only person here. And there's no real way to calculate IT's future needs seeing as most of the time, my job is reactionary, I really don't have much of a leg to stand on. (i.e. today I might be loaded down, then this time next week, I'll be sitting here playing catchup stareing at logs doing virtually nothing)
Respectfully, Jonathon Johnson, IASO Sys. Admin. Fort Gordon, GA 30905 "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." -----Original Message----- From: John BORIS [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:02 PM To: [email protected]; Jonathon W SPC RES USA USARC Johnson Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] One man show (UNCLASSIFIED) Jonathon, As a former DoD employee I understand your problem but I have to ask, isn't there an IT shop already assigned to your base. If this is a true Government position (GS level) you can request a desk audit from personnel and show them how the clause "Other duties as assigned" are not in the realm of the current job description or grade. Your supervisor should be on board with you on this since he (or she) had to write the justification for the slot. You can get all the information you need from Personnel. I had my job changed from an Equipment Specialist to a Management Analyst then to s Supervisory Management Analyst through the desk audit procedure. Remember this is the Government and logic will not enter into the discussion. ;-) John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> "Johnson, Jonathon W SPC RES USA USARC" <[email protected]> 4/14/2009 2:39 PM >>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE I need some other opinions on how I should go about handling my situation. Right now, I'm the only person IT person in my organization, effectively making me the computer tech, sysadmin, netadmin, Security analyst, database admin, webmaster, website application developer, network application developer/tester, etc etc. I work for the government, so my job title determines my pay (i.e. My situation: 1 slot for IT (Computer Tech 1)). I am wanting to get my job title seriously upgraded because right now I'm slotted as a 'Computer Tech level 1'. My job description was even edited to say I'd never need to even know HTML and now here I am learning 2 and 3 programming languages a month to create the apps I need and the apps/webpage's/database interfaces that my company wants. In the past month or two I've learned advanced SQL querying, ASP, ASP.NET, VBscript again (with ASP), CSS, C++, C#, and I'm sure there's quite a few more. My supervisors are completely IT illiterate and don't have a clue what IT is much less what goes into making these things tick that they want. I've tried to ask if there was any way I could get someone else to assist me, but because this is a gov't contract, there have to be positions allotted by the gov't to do that, which, there is only one IT slot; Me. Is there any good way to approach IT illiterate people and explain to them, more or less, "...this is what I do all day...","...this is what a computer tech level 1 (my current job title) does all day....","...this is about what the first description is getting paid about......here's some example job descriptions and estimates....","...that's [umpteen] more than I'm getting paid now...","pay me what I'm worth or pay for some of my certifications or I'll find somewhere better to go and this is what will happen if I go since there's no one else in my dept who knows how the system works...." (yes it's all documented). While I don't plan on threatening by any means, that was just an example. When I first joined the company, everything was just great and I thought "They're paying me to do this? Wow!" Now for some reason, it's project after project on top of project, all of which I usually have to learn something new and then turn around program, test, and launch a new app, then teach everyone how to use it. I'm typically a very nice person, which is my downfall most of the time, like in this conundrum I'm in. Respectfully, Jonathon Johnson, IASO Sys. Admin. Fort Gordon, GA 30905 "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE
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