The cogs of the IT world

[Dizzie]

When I started my current job I thought that I'd be writting programs and doing things that I enjoy. Starting salary was 11k + car, which was nice. So why does my company pay me all that and then give me jobs that a spotty work experience schooly could do?

Today I:
Cut CD sleves into squares to put in CD wallets
Burnt some CD's for reports
Heat Binded some reports
Made tea.
Put returned faxes into return ID order.
Packaged some reports and franked them for the post.

See what I mean?

:mad:

[Cabe]

hahaha, your not a "Secretary" are you, or possibly "Rent Boy"

/me realises he shovels sand and sells drills for a living then goes and sulks.

[Dizzie]

My offical Job Title is....

Management Consultant

ha.

My new job title will probably be...

Tecsos Tolley pusher :D

[GeeDee]

Whats a Tolley?

:p:

[Rmage]

Well sounds about the right level of work for a management consultant :D
Not that I've usually found they hardly have a brain cell to rub together.

[MJ_Monkey]

hey Dizzie that happens to eveyone that starts a new job.

[Culture]

11k?!?!?!

Christ, you get a car with that????


mmmmmmmmmm

[cyberdude]

lol
havent you seen only fools and horses ???

he who dares......... :-)

its so unfair I dont get a car.............. :P

well the over 3 times salary helps i guess.....


Cd:madhatter

[TelexStar]

i was thinking the same thing culture. 11k??? how the hell did u wrangle a car with that? its not a pool car is it?

[JeRkY]

11k....thought u techies were meant to get paid loads,
im getting paid 15 k a year after tax and im on a years student placement from uni....no car mind :( but hey i already have 1 :)

[panloaf]

Ya, I get paid about 11k a year for this placement coding-drone job - just a pity that placements are expendable.
Along came cost-cutting, as all the investors are slamming their wallets shut for a while, and we have to go now :( (Last day today - I'm not bitter ;) ).

'course everyone around me is paid twice that...

[Zenith]

My first job was £13k for all-round tech support and Mr.Fixit.

All the positions I've applied for lately are starting at £16k-£17k though they're generally tech support of one kind or another. Just so that there is some sense of scale in salaries, £17k in this area has about as much spending power as £23k-£24k in a city.

[Dizzie]

Originally posted by TelexStar
i was thinking the same thing culture. 11k??? how the hell did u wrangle a car with that? its not a pool car is it?

Because we're an auotmotive consultantcy I get a car. It's a ****e 1.2 Fiat Punto. Tops out at 93mph :( I'd prefer not to have a car then I could rag my GTi to work and back every day :D ahhhhh, 1.8 Golf GTi. Tops out at 130mph :D

Bloing. What was that? Oh nothing, just hitting the 6500rpm limiter in 5th :D

And it's not a townie car Kermit!

[Angelus]

Originally posted by Dizzie
My new job title will probably be...

Tecsos Tolley pusher :D

OI! dont diss my job! :P

[pos]

Get a job in a pub :D i was pulling pints yesturday - it was fun... and wierd to b on the otherside of the bar! hehehe

[Porkie]

Originally posted by Dizzie


Because we're an auotmotive consultantcy I get a car. It's a ****e 1.2 Fiat Punto. Tops out at 93mph :( I'd prefer not to have a car then I could rag my GTi to work and back every day :D ahhhhh, 1.8 Golf GTi. Tops out at 130mph :D

Bloing. What was that? Oh nothing, just hitting the 6500rpm limiter in 5th :D

And it's not a townie car Kermit!

All Golf GTIs are townie Kev cars. ;)

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by Dizzie
ahhhhh, 1.8 Golf GTi. Tops out at 130mph
Bloing. What was that? Oh nothing, just hitting the 6500rpm limiter in 5th :D

Rofl... I got *cough*145*cough* out of my car, and it was still going (untill i saw a copper on the bridge a few miles away and slammed on the anchors... :D )

/me hides from any police that read the forums :eek:

[Dizzie]

What car?

[pos]

/me remembers the good old days when my brother used to drive that Golf :) shiny happy car with sweet alloys :)

[KermitTheFrag]

ok diz ... you got 0wned by the simple fact that :-

The IT industry is going down the pan and is run by ****tards who rip off their employees to keep their own heads above the water

IT staff ... kill them all. I'm leaving the industry.

[pos]

Originally posted by KermitTheFrag
ok diz ... you got 0wned by the simple fact that :-

The IT industry is going down the pan and is run by ****tards who rip off their employees to keep their own heads above the water

IT staff ... kill them all. I'm leaving the industry.

i agree with u here... its such a saturated market with so many people still wanting to get into it?! with a pc in near enough every house in the UK? there can only b so many salesmen, and now there are faaaaarrrrr too many techie's!!

but what market to move into?

[KermitTheFrag]

spot on.

sound engineering here.

[Absynth]

mmmmm i'm thinking the same thing, definetly with guitars :D

[Angelus]

Guitars are good, wish i could play mine well lol

[KermitTheFrag]

big ass andromeda analogue synths and protools rigs for me ... not twangy guitars :p:

[Jez_Gafys]

I dont really have an official working title, its kinda IT and Network support and software development.

It involves lots of it and network supports :) oh and software devopment, oracles/access dbs, plus vb programing.
I earn not too far from 30k+ year +bonus (no and then get the bonus). Its ot bad to say 3/4 years ago I started the job on £98 a week :)

My day at work yesterday ...

Moad marmite on toast and cup of black coffee
loaded mpuk forums
loaded ccm forums
sents email everywhere
did I bit of network schematic drawings in visio
Meeting inrgards to upgrading kilostream pipes to depots to faster lines.
Browsed internet for a region hack for a dvd player :) (found it btw)
and then skanked of home

btw that particular day I started at 10am and finished at 4pm ;)

[Jez_Gafys]

the main reason the IT business is dying more correctly IT staff at big firms is because thier particular departments dont actually make any revenue, but they spend more money then any other department, they buy computer gear, etc and you always notice how IT managers/staff have the best laptops in the compnay and biggest monitors and cool gadjets like mp3 players and cameras, dvd rewriters etc (well thats the case where I work). So many companies cant afford to emply them really and the try to cope with the maintence without dedicated knowledgable staff (B&Q is and example of this).

You should really be looking into programing reading about this is a dying trend with no proper professionals joingin the programming world thats why these jobs pay high because they are rare. And wouldnt you be proud to see your name top of the credits as a topwriter for lets say MOH :).

[KermitTheFrag]

Well I was earning £15k on a senior programming job, ie extensive knowledge of systems at ALL levels required. F'ing pisstake esp as I earned £7k on f'king ebay and resellers that year and didnt have to get off my arse or write one line of code at all!

If it wasnt for the nice fat pipe, I wouldnt have stayed.

btw I've been writing C/C++ since I was 12 so I've been there, done that. Thats nearly 10 years and there isnt ONE company out there that has one half assed bit of respect for their employees and pay the going rate...

[JeRkY]

Originally posted by Mr Jez_Gafys



My day at work yesterday ...

Moad marmite on toast and cup of black coffee
loaded mpuk forums
loaded ccm forums
sents email everywhere
did I bit of network schematic drawings in visio
Meeting inrgards to upgrading kilostream pipes to depots to faster lines.
Browsed internet for a region hack for a dvd player :) (found it btw)
and then skanked of home



wow supriseingly similar day to mine except swap the techies stuff for a bit of photoshop doo dah ing and freehand sketching :)

god i cant even remember what this topic was all about

o well

check ebay for more cool stuff to waste money on :D

[KermitTheFrag]

yes!!! buy MY stuff off ebay!!! you know you want to!!! :D

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=dejection

[Spanky]

Originally posted by panloaf
Ya, I get paid about 11k a year for this placement coding-drone job - just a pity that placements are expendable.
Along came cost-cutting, as all the investors are slamming their wallets shut for a while, and we have to go now :( (Last day today - I'm not bitter ;) ).

'course everyone around me is paid twice that...

I got 13 1/2k for my placement year. And I had a great time, went on loads of trips to london, piss ups down the pub etc.

Sounds like you were a bit unlucky, or I was extremely lucky.

[Dizzie]

I'm suprised you've got anything left to sell Kermit!

[JeRkY]

kermit that thing u listed by accident looks interesting....wtf is it....sorry but the rest of your stuff intrests me not :P

me searches ebay for Bang & Olufsen....mmmmmmm sweet money wastage :D

[KermitTheFrag]

Originally posted by [WnG]JeRkY
kermit that thing u listed by accident looks interesting....wtf is it....sorry but the rest of your stuff intrests me not :P


M-Audio Delta Audiophile sound card. Professional 24-bit 96KHz card. http://www.m-audio.com/products/m-audio/audiophile.php

Someone offered me £100 for it so I pulled the auction.

me searches ebay for Bang & Olufsen....mmmmmmm sweet money wastage :D

Their stuff is UTTER CRAP. It looks nice but most stuff you get from richer sounds sounds is considerably better in build quality AND sound quality. Plus theres no proprietry interconnects etc. Buy an Arcam amp + some tannoys and a half decent CD player and you're 1000% better than B&O at 1/10th of the cost :)

Either than or a Linn all in one ;)