SunnyD
Belgian Waffler
I am so disenchanted with my job currently.
Mind you, it's a "filler" job while I am seeking real employment in my field of expertise (Software Engineering), but I had to get something, if not anything after a year and a half of being unemployed.
Let me 'splain to you Lucy...
I work phone tech support for a company which contracts this service to other companies. When they first opened up the facility up here where I'm living, the expectations from them were rather grand -- not by me but rather by the whole community. A fairly upscale tech company opening up shop in a backwards hick-city where the cashflow predominantly comes from a large military installation a few miles away -- unemployment rates likely to drop and people might actually be making money for once.
Talk was we were looking at an average of $8-$10 an hour, possibly more - in fact their first newspaper ad claimed $10-$12/hr.
I got hired full time at the rate of $6.50/hr. I figured fine, 90 day eval, if I do a decent job then we get what was advertised. As things progressed, the talk was that the raise in question was a maximum of 50 cents - $7/hr. Uh huh. Now mind you, this town probably would be lucky to have a GED education level, where as I have 2 college degrees. Oh, the $10-$12/hr thing was said to have been retracted with a statement of "we never meant to offer that much..."
Next, apparently I haven't kissed enough ass there, because the 6 promotional opportunities that I applied for I was passed over (management level mind you - I have an AS and BS where as the folks that were promoted might have a High School Diploma). I was told that while I ranked very highly, the manager in question had felt that the other people "were better suited for the job"...
Finally, I took this job to just fill time until my floundering search could find a real job. Now knowing I would be more satisfied and probably making more money working at the local grocery store, should I just outright quit or suck it up?
Mind you, it's a "filler" job while I am seeking real employment in my field of expertise (Software Engineering), but I had to get something, if not anything after a year and a half of being unemployed.
Let me 'splain to you Lucy...
I work phone tech support for a company which contracts this service to other companies. When they first opened up the facility up here where I'm living, the expectations from them were rather grand -- not by me but rather by the whole community. A fairly upscale tech company opening up shop in a backwards hick-city where the cashflow predominantly comes from a large military installation a few miles away -- unemployment rates likely to drop and people might actually be making money for once.
Talk was we were looking at an average of $8-$10 an hour, possibly more - in fact their first newspaper ad claimed $10-$12/hr.
I got hired full time at the rate of $6.50/hr. I figured fine, 90 day eval, if I do a decent job then we get what was advertised. As things progressed, the talk was that the raise in question was a maximum of 50 cents - $7/hr. Uh huh. Now mind you, this town probably would be lucky to have a GED education level, where as I have 2 college degrees. Oh, the $10-$12/hr thing was said to have been retracted with a statement of "we never meant to offer that much..."
Next, apparently I haven't kissed enough ass there, because the 6 promotional opportunities that I applied for I was passed over (management level mind you - I have an AS and BS where as the folks that were promoted might have a High School Diploma). I was told that while I ranked very highly, the manager in question had felt that the other people "were better suited for the job"...
Finally, I took this job to just fill time until my floundering search could find a real job. Now knowing I would be more satisfied and probably making more money working at the local grocery store, should I just outright quit or suck it up?
