Today marks a full week of on-site time for what I was told was a two day install. Today marks the end of the second week since I was told my promised “salary adjustment” (a pay raise to those of you who don’t like doublespeak) was finally rejected. I waited three months to be told this? Well, what’s next. I tried company loyalty and discovered it is a one-way street, so I suppose now it is time to brush up on my networking terms and try Verisign. 14 hour days and 80% of my life spent on-site and in hotels just isn’t worth it at 75% of the standard salary and no bonuses, especially not during a labour shortage.
A tangent . . . how unusual for me. Why has it taken me a week to do two days’ worth of work, you ask? Excellent question! The answer, rather boring, is that it hasn’t. I’ve spent most of this time relaying conversations from a 3rd-party consultant (whose source is the customer) to an engineer, who then relays it to another engineer, who responds and we reverse the whole process. Time-consuming and quite frustrating for all concerned, but it’s the only way I am permitted to do this.
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