ive been neet for a bit but the last time i had a job interview i had to mask harder than i thought was possible and kinda felt dirty for a week afterwards.
I’m convinced no one wants to hire people anymore.
My workplace spent $2 million dollars on an IT audit only to be basically told that in order to maintain our infrastructure, we would have to over double the entire IT team, including contractors. Instead, they shoved that under the rug, implemented some “process improvements”, hired more managers, divided the team, lost more people, and demanded more work than we could do before. Potentially no new positions until 2026. This year will mark my 3rd year as a contractor that they refuse to hire, despite doing the majority of laptop builds and doing all of the hard work (including emergency fixes and various mass migrations that I singlehandedly wrote all the PowerShell scripts for) that the software team is completely too incompetent to do and had shoved the work onto me, but refuse to hire me in their team. They rather spend millions getting answers their own IT workers already told them than the few 100k to hire at least a few more people.
I swear these companies are allergic to money.
What’s most insulting is that they are telling us that we are part of the engineering team now, and we need to think like engineers. Yet I get reprimanded to build more laptops despite the rack being full and not focus on optimizing the builds and resolving issues that the software team pushes on me.
My workplace spent $2 million dollars on an IT audit only to be basically told that in order to maintain our infrastructure, we would have to over double the entire IT team, including contractors.
Those IT auditors must have the sweetest gig in the world because every single one of those “process optimization” boils down to “hire more personnel lmao.” Cool, didn’t need to blow $1M+ on something that just needed 5 minutes of passive observation to figure out.
Ah, you’re being grifted by a big corp by getting shit wages and no benefits as a contractor too?
Me too, and I’m on 6 years. But I might get approved for full-time WFH soon, so I guess I got that going for me.
After three years I’d say they’re deliberately exploiting you. Management sounds like they have deliberately hostile labor practices. The only solution is to look for a new employer. (Obviously easier said than done)
I mean, when they keep moving support employees to the hardware team, only hire more support which they denied me from even making it to the second interview because they think I wouldn’t be good enough for support despite doing some support work (especially very difficult tickets for devs), I get the feeling they really prefer to not pay me benefits and continue to exploit me. Not to mention the current employees have met the requirements for a promotion but have denied the opportunity for years now, in large part because our shitty manager refused to request more money for their team so they could have promoted their team members, which they could have done and leadership wouldn’t have stopped them despite leadership being shitty, too. Another contractor had to work 4 years to get a position after almost quitting, and it seems I may likely break the record. This $200 billion dollar indie joke of a company continues to hire many positions for the other departments, but absolutely screws its IT department over for years and years, and its always been a struggle day one to fight for more IT workers.
This company hired me as a contractor to do some special PowerShell work, but actually just scammed me into doing a full-time role but refuse to hire me and pay me benefits. My workplace is scum.
Same workplace that hired a bunch of people during COVID and immediately fired them without losing its tax benefit.
Where I live, getting an IT job is extremely difficult, and I essentially have given up. I have been applying for years and have only made it really close to getting two good jobs but ultimately denied (now I think I am blacklisted by AI because every time I apply to the same company, even for entry-level positions that pay less than my current salary and I am way overqualified for, I am automatically rejected). Most places would probably be worse and pay much less than my workplace, too. My goal is to save, help my mother find a somewhat stable job or potentially go to college, and quit my job and go back to school for electrical engineering so that I can finally do my passion career and be a useful asset once we have a revolution in this cracker ass, third world nation.
Yeah they’re getting a full time salary amount of work out of you for a contractors amount of work. Its just a matter of having a place to go to. In my experienve tech companies basically never give raises. The only way is to jump jobs. But your company is much bigger than any I’ve worked at.
now I think I am blacklisted by AI because every time I apply to the same company, even for entry-level positions that pay less than my current salary and I am way overqualified for, I am automatically rejected
I wouldn’t take that as evidence of blacklisting. Places will absolutely overlook overqualified candidates. Most will assume you’re faking your credentials. Others will assume you’ll be difficult to work with. They want someone who is slightly under qualified and desperate and therefore both modable and malleable.
Same, its all a waste of resources.
Mood. I just wanna be cute -pet puppies and wear frilly dresses
