• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    29 days ago

    Yeah. I work in IT. Or worked. I’m not sure anymore.

    I was doing level 1 support on the phone for a few years and was able to put a bit of money aside during the pandemic.

    A few months ago my employer took a new client, an oil company. As I hate them with all my being, and the work was more about telling low wage employees to wait business hours instead of helping them, I quit.

    I absolutely don’t miss Windows, Teams, Office, Microsoft products… Salesforce, Citrix, and all those. I’m so happy without them in my life.

    But I need to pay rent and eat, so I started looking for work again and, OMFG, I really don’t want to go back to that shit.

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      28 days ago

      Same, I love my job I would do it for free and yet they pay me good money to do it, FROM HOME!

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        28 days ago

        I felt like this for a while. I was doing cool and interesting stuff… then i learned that my employer charges the people we contract me out to at $330/hr and i make no where near that. Burst that bubble real quick

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          28 days ago

          Oh that I’m absolutely sure it’s happening, but I don’t have the reputation or the sales team to land clients on my own so I have to rely on the company