I'm currently in a disagreement with my girlfriend about my working life. She says that since I didn't work my way through high school at minimum wage jobs, paying my own rent (she moved out when she was 15) that I shouldn't be complaining about my wage at my current job. I get paid $15 an hour plus insurance (which is crap insurance) for being a system admini supporting 24 users and 13 servers (5 Linux / 8 Win NT & 2K). I am on call pretty much 24/7 and am the only support person at the company.
I'm going to talk to my boss this week about getting a raise....
My first "real" job was as a computer tutor that started at $7.75 an hour... this was when I was 19 years old (around two years ago).
Anyway, as some of you might remember I worked at a company as the assistant network manager for a few months, then it went out of the biz. I then got transfered to it's sister company and was "promoted" (without them actually saying promoted) as the Network Manager. No increase in pay, only a lot more responsiblity. In any case, right before my previous job went out of the biz, I asked for a raise and this is what my boss told me "We just don't have the money right now. I think $15 an hour is pretty good for what you do.... hell, my husband doesn't even make $15 an hour and he's 52 years old!"
To me this is comparing apples to oranges, I have skills in the IT field. Her husband sells Snow machines (Snow Mobiles to the rest of you) for a living. Unskilled versus skilled labor... that doesn't compare.
Anyway, just because I didn't work minimum wage jobs all through high school (I ran my own computer business for the last years of HS), I think that I should be able to complain about being taken advantage of by my work.
What do you guys think?
I'm going to talk to my boss this week about getting a raise....
My first "real" job was as a computer tutor that started at $7.75 an hour... this was when I was 19 years old (around two years ago).
Anyway, as some of you might remember I worked at a company as the assistant network manager for a few months, then it went out of the biz. I then got transfered to it's sister company and was "promoted" (without them actually saying promoted) as the Network Manager. No increase in pay, only a lot more responsiblity. In any case, right before my previous job went out of the biz, I asked for a raise and this is what my boss told me "We just don't have the money right now. I think $15 an hour is pretty good for what you do.... hell, my husband doesn't even make $15 an hour and he's 52 years old!"
To me this is comparing apples to oranges, I have skills in the IT field. Her husband sells Snow machines (Snow Mobiles to the rest of you) for a living. Unskilled versus skilled labor... that doesn't compare.
Anyway, just because I didn't work minimum wage jobs all through high school (I ran my own computer business for the last years of HS), I think that I should be able to complain about being taken advantage of by my work.
What do you guys think?