I just watched a lightning bolt on my way to a location, and now I'm seeing fire trucks drive towards that direction, more light reflecting off the clouds, and more police vehicles driving towards that direction
So nice I'm about to end this workday knowing exactly who Thor had beef with
My sibling in bad posting, just post. You don't have to justify yourself.
My favorite bit is they've been on the boards for 16 years! I totally recognized the name and was trying to figure out if this was some weird kind of spam/hacking thing.
Post, kvetch about how working, even at an awesome job, sucks at times. Or just post awesome librarian stories. This is also the Awesome Librarian thread.
yeah post about anything and everything my dude, a lot of folks use this thread to vent but you don't only have to vent. if something cool happens with your job, tell us about it! we love that shit!
in my case, my job is still perfectly fine but I really just want to quit because I know it's not what I want to do. but then there's that whole pesky "need money to live" thing. In June we get our twice-a-year bonus so I'm thinking that no matter what I'm probably gonna leave after that, or at the very least have an honest discussion with my team lead about where I'm at. It's not the smart decision but I just hate this feeling of getting up every morning and immediately getting anxiety over what I have to do that day, and then getting home and not having any energy to work on or think about anything else.
Which sucks because everything about the job is great, except for the fact that I don't like doing it.
My job is excellent but also I am somehow permanently exhausted from it and constantly yearning to take a holiday and just sleep for like, 6 weeks.
I suspect this is more of an age problem.
anyway I left the lab at like 7pm today because I had to stick around and make sure the first few layers of a 16 hour overnight print I'm doing adhered properly. This is only the second time I've used this machine, plus I decided to be sneaky on orientation to avoid some gnarly support material problems, so until I get on-site tomorrow I'm going to live in terror of receiving a message from the shop staff with a subject line akin to "Re: your print that fucked up EVERYTHING"
This doesn't happen in offices! This wouldn't have happened to me in an office setting! I wouldn't have gotten stabbed in the head in an office, either!
My dude, I am at a work conference and the hotel has a big metal chain hanging off their roof for, I don't know, aesthetics or historical art or whatever.
Everytime I have walked by since reading this post this morning I have given that thing the sidest of side eyes, ain't no chain gonna get me.
I feel like I'm getting overlooked / walked over at my current position. I got into this profession through a change in fields of profession if you will, having studied physics and starting my first job as an electrical engineer with little knowledge of hardware development. This was in 2019, and in 2021 the company I now work at split off from the larger company I started out at. Which meant that I was now part of a smaller group, back then just my manager (who also transitioned to the new company, having worked for decades in this field) and I working as actual hardware engineers. But instead of focusing on me and trying to fast-track the development of my experience, they soon hired two new employees with 10+ years of experience in the field. Which I totally get from a business perspective, that was a safe bet to increase our hardware engineering capabilities. But now one of them is basically treated as a "golden child" in terms of responsibility and role considerations, e.g. being considered as a lead in engineering for a specific field of devices we produce. And recently yet *another* colleague, from inside the company, but another location, with also long years of experience, has been brought on-board for the current device we are engineering and struggling with.
TL;DR: I feel that the company has no interest in actually furthering my own growth as a hardware engineer and instead just keeps bringing in people that already have the experience. Am I being too ego-centric being extremely frustrated by this, thinking I should switch employers to someone interested in actually building up new hires if this keeps up for the near (next 1-2 years) future?
Have you been getting reviews? Have they contained any discussion of what growth you'd and they would like to see?
If not...they may not be interested in developing talent. Which is shitty but common.
Well, yes but not really, I got two annual reviews in 2021 and 2022, but it's the kind that consists of an A-E grading in 5 categories that translates directly to our raises, and we're straight up being told that A. there is only X amount of budget for the department raises, so they cannot grade higher than a certain amount for that reason, and B. that it would also pretty much go against unspoken company policy to grade higher than Y after 1, 2, ... years of employment. So even if I started working there and was some kind of genius of hardware development, they wouldn't grade me higher than two B's in the first year. So really the grading says *nothing*.
In dialogue my manager tells me that he wants to expand my capabilities also for this other type of engineering, but to be honest it sounds like a horizontal development where I just get more responsibilities of the same type, just a slightly different field. Not really deeper knowledge.
I know I vent about my job and how it does effect me but yay I messed up and am cosmetology fethed
I'm not quite sure what cosmetology fethed means, but I hope you're doing ok. In my experience, the only people that make mistakes bad enough for your manager to care about are those that are actually given important tasks in the first place.
My wife finally decided it was time to see her boss and give him the harsh truth about the organization. But halfway through the conversation before it even got serious he said he's quitting and accepted a new job yesterday. What a trash fire.
That tracks, bosses are normally well aware of the issues surronding their workplace and either don't care (i'm alright jack...) or are looking for an escape hatch themselves.
My job is excellent but also I am somehow permanently exhausted from it and constantly yearning to take a holiday and just sleep for like, 6 weeks.
I suspect this is more of an age problem.
anyway I left the lab at like 7pm today because I had to stick around and make sure the first few layers of a 16 hour overnight print I'm doing adhered properly. This is only the second time I've used this machine, plus I decided to be sneaky on orientation to avoid some gnarly support material problems, so until I get on-site tomorrow I'm going to live in terror of receiving a message from the shop staff with a subject line akin to "Re: your print that fucked up EVERYTHING"
I say this full well knowing that I could end up in a bog or a pod because of it - but it might not be age and more your high drive and inclination to throw yourself into work projects not so much headfirst but more akin to a cannonball meets depth charge.
"zip, i dunno what it is about you, but there's something very cat-like about your face. i can't really place it. you'd make a good mountain lion." Hail, Satan!Satans Post
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I will admit that I've been feeling a bunch of schadenfreude the last couple of days regarding the big project.
Focus has suddenly turned to naming conventions and how we display course names in a way that makes sense for every audience involved.
It's an incredibly complex topic!
... It's also one I spent a significant amount of time researching, looking into options, and so on. In fact, my proposed solution would allow us to customize/modify the names for edge cases rather than just going with an ironclad standard.
But nope! that solution was rejected and no one's asked me for my opinion. All my docs are still out there if people want to look. But nah.
So I'm just sitting back, munching popcorn, and investigating this other project.
I know I vent about my job and how it does effect me but yay I messed up and am cosmetology fethed
I'm not quite sure what cosmetology fethed means, but I hope you're doing ok. In my experience, the only people that make mistakes bad enough for your manager to care about are those that are actually given important tasks in the first place.
No the bills came together just right so I am screwed for funds for a week
We had been disposing non-hazardous acid waste down the sinks in our lab (with running water as one does). But then the lab safety people got on us for disposing improperly, so we started collecting it in containers and asking them to pick up the waste. I did try to push back, to no avail.
Now, we have a lot of waste, and were calling for a collection fairly frequently. So the head health and safety person came by to go over the waste we collect, and I mentioned we had just been following the rules given to us. So now we have permission to dispose of the waste down the drain again. The building has a system in place for neutralizing things put down the drains, so as long as it's not concentrated acid it's fine.
I'm being slightly petulant, though, and not implementing the new-old procedure until they respond to my "Per our meeting, this is what was discussed, and this is what I plan on telling the lab. Is this correct?"
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
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Just_Bri_ThanksSeething with ragefrom a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPAregular
I know I vent about my job and how it does effect me but yay I messed up and am cosmetology fethed
I'm not quite sure what cosmetology fethed means, but I hope you're doing ok. In my experience, the only people that make mistakes bad enough for your manager to care about are those that are actually given important tasks in the first place.
No the bills came together just right so I am screwed for funds for a week
I'm in the same boat myself or I would help. We're doing some creative bookkeeping over the next 7 days with our personal finances. Next week we'll be fine.
...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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Gabriel_Pitt(effective against Russian warships)Registered Userregular
We had been disposing non-hazardous acid waste down the sinks in our lab (with running water as one does). But then the lab safety people got on us for disposing improperly, so we started collecting it in containers and asking them to pick up the waste. I did try to push back, to no avail.
Now, we have a lot of waste, and were calling for a collection fairly frequently. So the head health and safety person came by to go over the waste we collect, and I mentioned we had just been following the rules given to us. So now we have permission to dispose of the waste down the drain again. The building has a system in place for neutralizing things put down the drains, so as long as it's not concentrated acid it's fine.
I'm being slightly petulant, though, and not implementing the new-old procedure until they respond to my "Per our meeting, this is what was discussed, and this is what I plan on telling the lab. Is this correct?"
Oh Jesus, neutralization systems. One time I was out at a big facility to propose a replacement for their big sulfuric acid pump.
"You can see the old one out in the pump shed by the treatment pond."
There was no shed there, just some rusty debris and the pump on a concrete slab.
"Yeah, the pumps leaks sometimes and sprays pressurized sulfuric."
I felt that, 'guaranteed to not eat.your shed,' could be a good selling point.
Have you been getting reviews? Have they contained any discussion of what growth you'd and they would like to see?
If not...they may not be interested in developing talent. Which is shitty but common.
Well, yes but not really, I got two annual reviews in 2021 and 2022, but it's the kind that consists of an A-E grading in 5 categories that translates directly to our raises, and we're straight up being told that A. there is only X amount of budget for the department raises, so they cannot grade higher than a certain amount for that reason, and B. that it would also pretty much go against unspoken company policy to grade higher than Y after 1, 2, ... years of employment. So even if I started working there and was some kind of genius of hardware development, they wouldn't grade me higher than two B's in the first year. So really the grading says *nothing*.
In dialogue my manager tells me that he wants to expand my capabilities also for this other type of engineering, but to be honest it sounds like a horizontal development where I just get more responsibilities of the same type, just a slightly different field. Not really deeper knowledge.
Do you have a decent relationship with these more experienced people that were moved to your team? If you do, I’d ask them to teach you about whatever thing they know more about than you.
Unfortunately, you can’t always rely on your manager to train you up. The good news is that this won’t be your last job. Try to extract all the learnings from everyone around you and then decide if you want to move on.
Dyshow am I even using this gunRegistered Userregular
Was given a heads up today that one of my hires is being a little obsessed with a coworker who said No to him asking her out awhile ago.
I hope HR deals with this succinctly and the issue goes away; I really don't want to be three for three on "The person Dys hired is causing problems."
Definitely reaffirming my decision to step away from the Team Lead role, at least.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Me: "... fuck, I'm an idiot."
Coworker: "doubtful."
Me: "So my whole struggle with this thing was "Hey, how do I get the files onto the system so that I can work with them?" ... turns out, gitlab-ci downloads the entire repo into the builds folder I created. Which means I can just manipulate those."
Coworker: "[Ath] is a total idiot! he didn't know about an obscure detail of an ultra complicated system that is only understood by a tiny fraction of a percent of the population :P "
Me: "..."
Coworker then admitted he was trying to tease me into not calling myself an idiot.
Still, I hate reading these posts online of people going "Oh, I can knock out this kind of thing in a couple days!" .. and here I am, having to learn about security and linux structure and file permissions and all these complex executables in a way that I'll eventually need to teach my coworkers..
I do feel like I'm "getting" it, but I lock up when it comes to actually writing true code, instead of planning / designing pseudocode.
... and I broke the dev machine I was testing things on by editing sudoers stuff in the raw without protection...
@Athenor I can tell you there is a very small number of devs that can actually estimate how long things will take accurately, which diminishes further when you layer in organizational security and permissions planning, not to mention testing and integration.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Oh I know. I'm in a very rare position where I am not being pulled a few thousand different directions, so I can just hammer away at this.
And I'm deliberately doing stuff so that if something catastrophic happens, we can rebuild it quickly.
I just get down on myself, because I'm like "will this translate to my future in any way" keeps popping up.
Athenor I can tell you there is a very small number of devs that can actually estimate how long things will take accurately, which diminishes further when you layer in organizational security and permissions planning, not to mention testing and integration.
We have two full-time devs who just build custom solutions for clients. They are no longer allowed to estimate anything directly, it has to go through a senior application consultant or project manager because “a couple of days” is generally three weeks until there’s anything even ready to test.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
edited May 4
Hey gentlepeople, it's that time of year where I share my historical and current salaries with everyone, because salary transparency is a subject near and dear to my heart.
I'll also note that when I was younger, and just starting in IT, I would keep reading all this advice about researching the salary of your chosen profession before going into the job offer negotiation, without much instruction on where the fuck you research that stuff. Fresh out of school, I was an excellent researcher if you pointed me towards a library or even the burgeoning internet, but those articles would all imply that you ask people in the industry about salaries. Which has always been so fucking insane to me, because talking about salaries has been taboo for a long time, even more so when I started out; it's getting better, but even approaching a friend for that information back in the early 2000s would be most likely to be met with extreme offense.
As usual, putting this under spoilers because some people still find it angering that I do this.
Current role:
Technical Support Engineer, SaaS
$97,335 /yr, hourly worker, paid biweekly
$36,000 /yr in weekend and holiday pay
$6500 yearly bonus expected
$20k Cash reward that vests like stock granted as part of my raise; fully vests in 3 years
$2,000 /yr Wellness bonus, that can be used on a variety of things such as insurance payments, gym membership, vet visits, and other things.
Up to 15% of my paycheck could go towards buying company stock, which is sold to employees at a 15% discount.
401k match on up to 3%
I thought about adding some information about the costs involved with my health insurance, and to help explain American insurance to those that are interested, but it's a lot so I didn't. If anyone would like a separate post on this let me know.
Last year:
Technical Support Engineer, SaaS (same company)
$94,500 /yr, hourly worker, paid biweekly
$18,500 in weekend and holiday pay
$11,300 actual yearly bonus
$17k in RSUs granted as part of my raise; fully vests in 3 years.
$2,000 /yr Wellness bonus
Up to 15% stock purchase program as above
401k match on up to 3%
2021:
Technical Support Engineer, SaaS (same company)
$90,000 /yr, hourly worker, paid biweekly - starting pay with the company
$900 in holiday pay
$650 reward bonus from manager
$4,500 actual yearly bonus
$55k in RSUs sign-on bonus; fully vests in 3 years. (the value of this stock had reduced significantly by the time I could cash any of it out)
$1500 /yr Wellness bonus
Up to 15% stock purchase program as above
401k match up to $1500
Prior roles:
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud
$66,000 /yr, salary worker - OT and other differentials were not available. Was asked to be on-call without extra pay or hours returned
This was the role that taught me Linux on the job.
Considering I didn't have previous Linux experience before signing on, I didn't mind this salary, but it was grossly under market.
Fiber Support Analyst, fiber telecom
$58,000 /yr, hourly worker, OT was available occasionally, and Holiday pay was time and a half.
I realized I still have the wage schedule for this Union job:
If you can find the chapter of your local union for a telecom job (CWA) , you are very likely to be able to download the union contract in full - especially for unions in the north east.
This particular schedule is for a contract that has already been renegotiated a couple of times by now.
I don't remember all the benefits of this job, but we did get a yearly bonus (that, by union contract, I still got a percentage of, the year following my leaving the job), extremely good and inexpensive health insurance, a lot of paid medical leave time (I once got 3 months for a voluntary surgery - a surgery the company paid for almost entirely), and up to around $5200/yr in tuition for degrees that benefit the company. In prior years, before the union caved, it was more like $8k/yr in tuition. The only reason we got anything in the union at all wasn't because of our own union, since Texas unions have no teeth, but because of the northern unions.
For the curious, this website gives you the current wage schedule if you put in a job title and healthcare plan: https://cwa-union.org/frontier-california-ta-calculator
(yeah it says CA, but CA & Texas were the same bargaining unit)
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I can get behind this. My stuff is all public anyways.
Current Role:
IT System Architect, University
$85,037 salary, paid on the 1st and 15th
37.5 hours a week officially; no compensation for after-hours or weekends
Leave balances accrue monthly: Vacation at 17.5 hours per month, with a cap of 420 hours; sick leave at 7.5 hours per month
I'll need to dig around a bit to find out about my employee benefits/retirement/savings and all that. I'll update this when I get that.
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I thought it was the bog thread. Been bog-posting in here for years and nobody even thought to tell me.
So nice I'm about to end this workday knowing exactly who Thor had beef with
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
My favorite bit is they've been on the boards for 16 years! I totally recognized the name and was trying to figure out if this was some weird kind of spam/hacking thing.
Post, kvetch about how working, even at an awesome job, sucks at times. Or just post awesome librarian stories. This is also the Awesome Librarian thread.
Pretty purple
Oh fuck its purple
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
in my case, my job is still perfectly fine but I really just want to quit because I know it's not what I want to do. but then there's that whole pesky "need money to live" thing. In June we get our twice-a-year bonus so I'm thinking that no matter what I'm probably gonna leave after that, or at the very least have an honest discussion with my team lead about where I'm at. It's not the smart decision but I just hate this feeling of getting up every morning and immediately getting anxiety over what I have to do that day, and then getting home and not having any energy to work on or think about anything else.
Which sucks because everything about the job is great, except for the fact that I don't like doing it.
I suspect this is more of an age problem.
anyway I left the lab at like 7pm today because I had to stick around and make sure the first few layers of a 16 hour overnight print I'm doing adhered properly. This is only the second time I've used this machine, plus I decided to be sneaky on orientation to avoid some gnarly support material problems, so until I get on-site tomorrow I'm going to live in terror of receiving a message from the shop staff with a subject line akin to "Re: your print that fucked up EVERYTHING"
Bullshit.
I see through your thinly veiled attempts to conceal it.
You've been pod-posting this entire time.
I don't think so, that one looks like it's over the bridge and in kitsap county.
I was sitting at the intersection of division and sprauge looking directly north
Edit unless this was before the bolt reached the ground
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
My dude, I am at a work conference and the hotel has a big metal chain hanging off their roof for, I don't know, aesthetics or historical art or whatever.
Everytime I have walked by since reading this post this morning I have given that thing the sidest of side eyes, ain't no chain gonna get me.
TL;DR: I feel that the company has no interest in actually furthering my own growth as a hardware engineer and instead just keeps bringing in people that already have the experience. Am I being too ego-centric being extremely frustrated by this, thinking I should switch employers to someone interested in actually building up new hires if this keeps up for the near (next 1-2 years) future?
Steam ID: 76561198021298113
Origin ID: SR71C_Blackbird
If not...they may not be interested in developing talent. Which is shitty but common.
Well, yes but not really, I got two annual reviews in 2021 and 2022, but it's the kind that consists of an A-E grading in 5 categories that translates directly to our raises, and we're straight up being told that A. there is only X amount of budget for the department raises, so they cannot grade higher than a certain amount for that reason, and B. that it would also pretty much go against unspoken company policy to grade higher than Y after 1, 2, ... years of employment. So even if I started working there and was some kind of genius of hardware development, they wouldn't grade me higher than two B's in the first year. So really the grading says *nothing*.
In dialogue my manager tells me that he wants to expand my capabilities also for this other type of engineering, but to be honest it sounds like a horizontal development where I just get more responsibilities of the same type, just a slightly different field. Not really deeper knowledge.
Steam ID: 76561198021298113
Origin ID: SR71C_Blackbird
Yes, I did schedule you for that.
Yes. Your regular is filled.
Because homie ghosted.
Because you said you were trained on it.
I recall you whining when I tried have you train with him.
Yes, because you are quite competent at your job and can make a halfway decent attempt at it.
I.e., what I wanted to say but didnt
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Did the cumulonimbus say "Bad Motherfucker" on it, like Mace Windu's lightsaber?
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I'm not quite sure what cosmetology fethed means, but I hope you're doing ok. In my experience, the only people that make mistakes bad enough for your manager to care about are those that are actually given important tasks in the first place.
I say this full well knowing that I could end up in a bog or a pod because of it - but it might not be age and more your high drive and inclination to throw yourself into work projects not so much headfirst but more akin to a cannonball meets depth charge.
Focus has suddenly turned to naming conventions and how we display course names in a way that makes sense for every audience involved.
It's an incredibly complex topic!
... It's also one I spent a significant amount of time researching, looking into options, and so on. In fact, my proposed solution would allow us to customize/modify the names for edge cases rather than just going with an ironclad standard.
But nope! that solution was rejected and no one's asked me for my opinion. All my docs are still out there if people want to look. But nah.
So I'm just sitting back, munching popcorn, and investigating this other project.
Dumdum, this is the isekai'd librarian thread. I got run down by a rogue blimp and now stack books in the goblin repository.
No the bills came together just right so I am screwed for funds for a week
You know goddamn well this was the pod thread for quite some time, because that was your doing.
Now, we have a lot of waste, and were calling for a collection fairly frequently. So the head health and safety person came by to go over the waste we collect, and I mentioned we had just been following the rules given to us. So now we have permission to dispose of the waste down the drain again. The building has a system in place for neutralizing things put down the drains, so as long as it's not concentrated acid it's fine.
I'm being slightly petulant, though, and not implementing the new-old procedure until they respond to my "Per our meeting, this is what was discussed, and this is what I plan on telling the lab. Is this correct?"
I'm in the same boat myself or I would help. We're doing some creative bookkeeping over the next 7 days with our personal finances. Next week we'll be fine.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
"You can see the old one out in the pump shed by the treatment pond."
There was no shed there, just some rusty debris and the pump on a concrete slab.
"Yeah, the pumps leaks sometimes and sprays pressurized sulfuric."
I felt that, 'guaranteed to not eat.your shed,' could be a good selling point.
Do you have a decent relationship with these more experienced people that were moved to your team? If you do, I’d ask them to teach you about whatever thing they know more about than you.
Unfortunately, you can’t always rely on your manager to train you up. The good news is that this won’t be your last job. Try to extract all the learnings from everyone around you and then decide if you want to move on.
Pod is pod
Been a while since I got any pod.
I hope HR deals with this succinctly and the issue goes away; I really don't want to be three for three on "The person Dys hired is causing problems."
Definitely reaffirming my decision to step away from the Team Lead role, at least.
Coworker: "doubtful."
Me: "So my whole struggle with this thing was "Hey, how do I get the files onto the system so that I can work with them?" ... turns out, gitlab-ci downloads the entire repo into the builds folder I created. Which means I can just manipulate those."
Coworker: "[Ath] is a total idiot! he didn't know about an obscure detail of an ultra complicated system that is only understood by a tiny fraction of a percent of the population :P "
Me: "..."
Coworker then admitted he was trying to tease me into not calling myself an idiot.
Still, I hate reading these posts online of people going "Oh, I can knock out this kind of thing in a couple days!" .. and here I am, having to learn about security and linux structure and file permissions and all these complex executables in a way that I'll eventually need to teach my coworkers..
I do feel like I'm "getting" it, but I lock up when it comes to actually writing true code, instead of planning / designing pseudocode.
... and I broke the dev machine I was testing things on by editing sudoers stuff in the raw without protection...
Na naaa na na na.
And I'm deliberately doing stuff so that if something catastrophic happens, we can rebuild it quickly.
I just get down on myself, because I'm like "will this translate to my future in any way" keeps popping up.
We have two full-time devs who just build custom solutions for clients. They are no longer allowed to estimate anything directly, it has to go through a senior application consultant or project manager because “a couple of days” is generally three weeks until there’s anything even ready to test.
I'll also note that when I was younger, and just starting in IT, I would keep reading all this advice about researching the salary of your chosen profession before going into the job offer negotiation, without much instruction on where the fuck you research that stuff. Fresh out of school, I was an excellent researcher if you pointed me towards a library or even the burgeoning internet, but those articles would all imply that you ask people in the industry about salaries. Which has always been so fucking insane to me, because talking about salaries has been taboo for a long time, even more so when I started out; it's getting better, but even approaching a friend for that information back in the early 2000s would be most likely to be met with extreme offense.
As usual, putting this under spoilers because some people still find it angering that I do this.
Current role:
$97,335 /yr, hourly worker, paid biweekly
$36,000 /yr in weekend and holiday pay
$6500 yearly bonus expected
$20k Cash reward that vests like stock granted as part of my raise; fully vests in 3 years
$2,000 /yr Wellness bonus, that can be used on a variety of things such as insurance payments, gym membership, vet visits, and other things.
Up to 15% of my paycheck could go towards buying company stock, which is sold to employees at a 15% discount.
401k match on up to 3%
I thought about adding some information about the costs involved with my health insurance, and to help explain American insurance to those that are interested, but it's a lot so I didn't. If anyone would like a separate post on this let me know.
Last year:
$94,500 /yr, hourly worker, paid biweekly
$18,500 in weekend and holiday pay
$11,300 actual yearly bonus
$17k in RSUs granted as part of my raise; fully vests in 3 years.
$2,000 /yr Wellness bonus
Up to 15% stock purchase program as above
401k match on up to 3%
2021:
$90,000 /yr, hourly worker, paid biweekly - starting pay with the company
$900 in holiday pay
$650 reward bonus from manager
$4,500 actual yearly bonus
$55k in RSUs sign-on bonus; fully vests in 3 years. (the value of this stock had reduced significantly by the time I could cash any of it out)
$1500 /yr Wellness bonus
Up to 15% stock purchase program as above
401k match up to $1500
Prior roles:
$66,000 /yr, salary worker - OT and other differentials were not available. Was asked to be on-call without extra pay or hours returned
This was the role that taught me Linux on the job.
Considering I didn't have previous Linux experience before signing on, I didn't mind this salary, but it was grossly under market.
Fiber Support Analyst, fiber telecom
$58,000 /yr, hourly worker, OT was available occasionally, and Holiday pay was time and a half.
I realized I still have the wage schedule for this Union job:
If you can find the chapter of your local union for a telecom job (CWA) , you are very likely to be able to download the union contract in full - especially for unions in the north east.
This particular schedule is for a contract that has already been renegotiated a couple of times by now.
I don't remember all the benefits of this job, but we did get a yearly bonus (that, by union contract, I still got a percentage of, the year following my leaving the job), extremely good and inexpensive health insurance, a lot of paid medical leave time (I once got 3 months for a voluntary surgery - a surgery the company paid for almost entirely), and up to around $5200/yr in tuition for degrees that benefit the company. In prior years, before the union caved, it was more like $8k/yr in tuition. The only reason we got anything in the union at all wasn't because of our own union, since Texas unions have no teeth, but because of the northern unions.
For the curious, this website gives you the current wage schedule if you put in a job title and healthcare plan:
https://cwa-union.org/frontier-california-ta-calculator
(yeah it says CA, but CA & Texas were the same bargaining unit)
Current Role:
$85,037 salary, paid on the 1st and 15th
37.5 hours a week officially; no compensation for after-hours or weekends
Leave balances accrue monthly: Vacation at 17.5 hours per month, with a cap of 420 hours; sick leave at 7.5 hours per month
I'll need to dig around a bit to find out about my employee benefits/retirement/savings and all that. I'll update this when I get that.