• Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Sounds like my job at a small full-house IT company. We did anything IT related the customer wanted. We got paid $1.2k by a rich guy to fix his son’s Roblox account once.

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    3 days ago

    Eh I had a job like this. Was for a small company. If that was a large corp id say fuck no but if small company? Its fine.

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      3 days ago

      Exactly. Company makes doors, by hand. 10 employees total and 2 computers. Easiest job you’ve ever had and you actually feel guilty every time they pay you for the first few months.

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      My job in data analytics occasionally involves pulling printing volume data. Does that count as “anything to do with printers”?

      Because fuck trying to aggregate by printer location when the location string is manually entered by humans with different “standards” and varying adherence even to their stated standard.

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      3 days ago

      The funny thing about jobs is that demand for the job tends to scale with pay. Of all the IT positions in an office, the guy fixing the printers is probably earning the least.

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    3 days ago

    This is basically my current job. Almost the same pay (120k) in the Seattle area.

    I work 50-70 hours a week

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    3 days ago

    Honestly, this is what we currently have at our mid sized company. We get paid dogshit, nobody has a dedicated position we’re just all “IT” and we do everything to keep shit running

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    I worked a short stint as a network administrator for a company I did not like at all. I figured it’d be a foot in the door, but boy was I wrong. I didn’t last 6 months, I was doing work of a network tech, network admin, security tech for door locks and cameras, a custodian, and general computer tech in all that. It was a VASTLY underpaid position for the work.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, it doesn’t sound like 3 jobs at all. It’s as close to a textbook definition of what you’d expect an IT Manager to do as I can think of.

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      3 days ago

      “You’re good with computers, right?”

      I swear these people probably ask their Uber drivers to fix their transmission because they’re “good with cars”.

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    I saw similar when looking for work as a graphic designer, with duties that can be summarised as “design our printed materials, build our website (with JavaScript knowledge required), and also plan our marketing strategy”.

    Then when I mentioned this in a Clients from Hell comment section, I got someone defend the practice with that small companies can’t afford to hire separate people for the 3 separate skillsets…

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    Am I crazy that those sound reasonable IT manager level things? If company size is 100-200 endpoints, the IT manager should understand all of these, if he/she doesn’t, I would not want to work at that IT team

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      You’re not crazy, it’s just that posts like this are generally tribal. Nobody here actually knows what the day-to-day of that job is, they just want a pretext to vent about their own experiences of being asked to do work that they didn’t want to do.

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        also potentially unpopular opinion: I’ve encountered about as many engineers over the years that were under-skilled for their positions, than ones who were competent. Whenever I see posters whine about how unreasonable the requirements for a job posting is, I always instinctively read it in one of the former’s voices…

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      There’s not enough hours in day to do all those tasks that this will entail. You’ll constantly be dragged between different domains nd have no time to focus on anything

      Source: I’ve done this job before. Company wasn’t even big either. Just 30 people or so

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        Honestly for 30 people it’s understandable, hiring properly would be like 10% of the company already lol

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          When you consider that IT is used by everyone and often the entire company is built on IT and communication i would hire properly

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        2 days ago

        “Manager” in this context generally doesn’t mean someone who has people reporting to them, it means someone who manages the IT. It can absolutely be an early-career role. See also: equipment manager, facilities manager etc.

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        I’ve worked at places with <50 people where the 2 IT people had “manager” titles, but they were just “the IT people” in practice - one handled user stuff, the other was focused on the client-facing infrastructure.

        Our lone HR person was also the “HR manager”, we had a single “accounting manager”, and a couple more like that. Some departments ended up expanding and the “managers” did end up with direct reports, but that’s kinda just how small businesses work, this posting sounds a lot like that.

        • Whereismyholodeck@lemmy.today
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          California has a minimum wage for software employees to be salaried and not pay them overtime (salaried exempt). It’s about $123k. I’ve never seen an entry level position that didn’t expect overtime, so $110k is actually low unless it’s a part time internship.

          Also leaving that link there for anyone who might have just discovered their employer is doing wage theft and owes them a lot of money.

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          I guess where I work, if you’re on carpet you’re 80-110k salary for jobs like purchasing, inventory etc not engineers or supoort. if you work in shipping or manufacturing you’re around 65-85k depending on experience

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          If it’s an onsite position, it depends on living costs.

          Some people are claiming 3k for rent is the minimum in the area. Just north of Beverly Hills.

          That’s half the salary, just for a studio apartment. Then there’s another chunk for taxes and they’re left with 1-2k for general expenses and living life.

          Salaries isn’t a simple thing you can move from one area to another