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Feb 15 2016 10:06am
Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ Feb 15 2016 09:05am)
The other option I've been considering is going back to school. Go xx,xxx in debt and get a career in Network Security and hopefully find a job starting at 50-60 out the door. Might be better in the long run.


As someone with a degree in Network security, I promise you it would be 100 times better to get a job as help desk somewhere and go to school on the side if you do. That piece of paper means dick in the IT industry for the most part if you don't have the experience.

If you already know a good amount of shit look into spending a few hundred on some basic Microsoft certs and maybe your A+ and network+ certifications. If you can pass those you will be as well off as someone with just a degree
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Feb 15 2016 11:54am
Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ 15 Feb 2016 02:21)
Boss wants to switch me back to a contractor, meaning I'd lose the vacation time she finally just gave me after 2.5 years of being there, and my incentive bonus I started getting about 6 months ago. Also means I'd get roughly a 20% paycut unless she raises my base rate (which she won't). Told her I'm not doing it unless I'm being adequately compensated and I have guarantee that my hours would stay around the same. We'll see what happens, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if she fires me at this point. People never understand how much you do for them until you're gone. Her net income has almost doubled since I've started working their lol, funny how rich people don't see the correlation with shit like that.

She told me all this on Thursday and then I had to work the rest of the day knowing she wanted to cut my rate to a point where I could no longer support my wife, child, and mother-in-law. She also then refused to pay me on Friday as it's "too much of a hassle" to pay me on payday and that we'd figure it out "sometime next week". My birthday was on Sunday, so she refused to pay me two days before my birthday when she knows how strapped for cash I am. I've been in the office for 3 Christmas/thanksgiving holidays and for the first time last year she paid me for those days, and only because we hired another nurse who said she needed to get paid on those days. I've never once gotten any other paid holiday off, no sick days, no benefits and now this. I've never once demanded that I get paid for any of these, healthcare and some other things have been brought up but she's immediately dismissed them and that was the end of the conversation. I've never complained to her about any of it. On top of all of that, I was the first to her house after she had a breakin, got all her locks changes on her house car, called and cancel all her CCs that were stolen and got them replaced, picked up extra work in the office and at her house including working weekends when her daughter had a mental breakdown and then took her and her other daughter out for dinner and drinks to cheer her up, and most recently, I drove her to the office and got her spare ID, drover her to the impound to get her car, and set her up with an attorney I know after she got a DUI. I've literally done everything I possibly can for this woman inside and outside of work and she just wants to assfuck me and be happy about it lol.

I will admit that I've had a drop in my productivity over the past two weeks due to some very serious family concerns. All of which I've explained to her and kept her in the loop about letting her know when I'd need to be on conference calls, court meetings etc... and she conveyed sympathy at the time. It wasn't like I was never in the office or anything, I was still working 30-35 hours a week (which is what I normally work) and answering calls on weekends/nights or working while I needed to be home at dealing with shit. Just definitely wasn't working as well as I normally do, no doubt about that. Just crazy to me that a few bad weeks justifies taking away everything from me that I've worked to achieve over my nearly 3 years in her office.

Anyways, end rant. Just needed to get all of that off my chest. It's been a truly horrible two weeks and just typing all this out has made me feel a bit better. Thanks for reading and wish me luck tomorrow guys. Really not sure what the next step for me is going to be if she decides to just fire me right then and there.


do not quit voluntarily unless you have another job lined up

get a lawyer after she fires you


This post was edited by -bryan- on Feb 15 2016 11:57am
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Feb 15 2016 12:26pm
pm me if you need legitimate career advice and ways to go about getting educated while working josh

also, flying into philly this week for work. i should probably get some inoculations first to keep me safe from the filth of that shithole
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Feb 15 2016 12:51pm
Quote (stuartg85 @ Feb 15 2016 01:26pm)
pm me if you need legitimate career advice and ways to go about getting educated while working josh

also, flying into philly this week for work. i should probably get some inoculations first to keep me safe from the filth of that shithole



don't think any vaccinations will help you.. try a hazmat suit
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Feb 15 2016 01:34pm
Quote (revis @ Feb 15 2016 11:51am)
don't think any vaccinations will help you.. try a hazmat suit


reminded me of this... itsreal85 still on his grind

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Feb 15 2016 01:50pm
Dell's shipping is so slow. Ordered my XPS 13 two weeks ago and FedEx hasn't even received it yet for shipping.

It wouldn't be so annoying if they would just be forthright about how long it actually takes to arrive. They put on this bogus estimated delivery date of approx 6-9 days after you place your order, but that's complete horseshit. So I'm forced to contact Dell and find out why my order is taking so much longer than they said. The first time I contact them, they say the order should be at my house that day (sounded like BS and it was) and then gave me a tracking number. However, all they did was create a shipping label; they never actually shipped it. So now I contact them today and they inform me that the laptop has to ship from China first, and then it will arrive at FedEx's shipping facility in U.S. Well why didn't they just tell me that in the first place? They should be 100% transparent about their shipping process and how long it actually takes. Lying about it only forces me to question what's going wrong. Just be honest and say it takes 3-4 weeks for the item to actually arrive, or better yet, 5 weeks, and then I can be happy it arrived in only 4 weeks.

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Feb 15 2016 02:23pm
Playing the hell out of Dragon Age, only at the Hinterlands but good LORD there's so much area/quests to cover.

Got my mount so that should help somewhat
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Feb 15 2016 02:29pm
hi
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Feb 15 2016 03:05pm
what's something i can put in my food to add flavor without adding much in terms of calories? like ideally under 5-10 cal per meal

right now i'm using pepper + lemon whenever i remember but i'm looking to expand my options

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what's something i can put in my food to add flavor without adding much in terms of calories? like ideally under 5-10 cal per meal

right now i'm using pepper + lemon whenever i remember but i'm looking to expand my options



Cholula sauce
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