Should I quit my job

steppinthrax

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I'm fresh out of college (only 2 years) and young (25 male). I've been working as an Systems Analyst at a hospital for almost 2 years now.

I think from working here I use almost none of my Computer Science Degree. But most of it is trying to deal with difficult to deal with people.

1. We have a network engineer who carries a nasty attitude all the time. Everybody knows his behavior even the director of IT. He's not a manager or a supervisor but for some reason if a manager or a supervisor tells him to do something and he dosen't want to do it that's it??????? He dosen't trust anybody with giving access rights esp. me. Even though I havne't broke nor caused any problems on the system. If I contact him directly for anything he gives me flack. I've talked to my direct supervisor on numerous occasions about issues with this person and he said there is notthing he can do about it and there is notthing the director will do about it. WTF.... In addition to that our IT department is seperated into two divisions (operations and applications). I'm in applications. The people who work in Operations are very slow and pretend to be knowledgeable but at the same time make numerous mistakes. 90% of what I do involve their assistance however, I look bad when they hold my shit up.

2. In my group I'm working with a person who is on visa and hates me because my boss pulled most of the projects away from him and gave them to me. He treats me lower them him but is buds with the network eng and his affiliates so he puts bugs in their ears about me all the time. He also tries to keep my out of the loop. My boss knows he finds me as a threat and keeps reminding him to work with me but he won't. We had a meeting today and all he was talking about was that I was conspiring against him in front of my boss. Because something fell though the cracks as far as backups and my boss was blameing him.

My boss is promising a promotion with both an increase in senior title and an increase in salary to the level of senior status. But I'm fed up with this shit right now and I'm thinking of throwing our resumes. Is this how all companies work???????
 

techgamer

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I am not in your field of study, but just in general, no i think you are in a unique situation with a small tech dept. I would recommend anyone to always have resumes out there to benchmark yourself and see how valuable you are to other companies. first and foremost if you arent happy than def find an alternative.
 

hanoverphist

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things wont change much in large corporations. id say take em out after work, buy em a beer, tell them to fuck off and keep on working there.
 

FoBoT

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Originally posted by: steppinthrax
But most of it is trying to deal with difficult to deal with people.

if you work in the corporate world, it is like that everywhere

only quit if you plan to avoid 'difficult to deal with people' by living in a cave or working for yourself
 

steppinthrax

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Originally posted by: SunnyD
Wait for the promotion and then lay the smack down.

That's what I've been thinking of doing. But a couple of weeks ago someone who've been working in operations for about 3 years or so decided to take on another job. I heard though the grapevine his boss asked him "what can we do for you" the new job he was offered was promissing 20K over what he was making so we are talking about 60 to 70K here. They told him to leave. I probably can do around that if I were to go out on a search.
 

ultimatebob

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As someone in who works in operations, I can tell you that developer jerks like yourself aren't nearly as smart as you think you are. If we did half of the shit you guys told us to do without questioning it or testing it first, your servers would be totally FUBAR and nothing would ever get done.

In short, I think that you SHOULD quit so they can replace you with someone who can follow processes correctly

;)
 

KB

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Yeah quit. Work for a small company where you are both the Network Engineer and the Developer, then no one but your boss holds you up.
 

SunnyD

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Originally posted by: steppinthrax
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Wait for the promotion and then lay the smack down.

That's what I've been thinking of doing. But a couple of weeks ago someone who've been working in operations for about 3 years or so decided to take on another job. I heard though the grapevine his boss asked him "what can we do for you" the new job he was offered was promissing 20K over what he was making so we are talking about 60 to 70K here. They told him to leave. I probably can do around that if I were to go out on a search.

Okay, take the promotion, and a raise, lay the smack down, AND look for another job at the same time.