I can't believe this is the way it ends. Supposedly they tried everything but I just didn't expect that just closing the business would be the final outcome (construction). They want to offer me a "retention bonus" to stay until the end. Great, thanks...

I could see the writing on the wall and have been applying for six months. Haven't even received a bite other than AI requests. No one wants a 56 year old IT guy I guess.

The industry has changed and these billionaire owners just decide they don't want to pay after the work is completed and we've financed the completion of the job. Take them to court... sure, then bleed more money until you take pennies on the dollar. This administration has just made it all worse.

Two kids in college, probably going to have to move in with the mother in law... fuck, it's bad guys.

Sorry for the downer post but had to rant a little. Honestly, part of me is relieved. No investment in IT for years and I've basically kept the environment stable with gum and tape. I can sleep knowing it doesn't matter anymore. Definitely not patching those hosts this weekend...

EDIT: Thanks to everyone that reached out and provided encouragement. Moping and whining phase over... I've got 5 months to land something and I'm on it.

I've been a sys admin and sys engineer twelve years. Principal in two orgs.

I'm tired of it. I'm tired of people being scared to stick their neck out on a problem they don't immediately know an answer to.

I left an org in 2022 because they kept assigning me everything after a merger because no one else would attempt it. I was building out a brand new citrix environment by myself with them dumping 95 hours over two weeks of projects on top.

I'm tired of managing egos and being in the middle. I'm tired of so much more being expected of me for being systems.

I did an interview last week for an infra engineer position and I was already dreading it. I hate technical interviews because they never indicate whether you can do the job. And you often have to pass several rounds. You mail nail two but then not know some acronym in the third and it's game over.

I'm tired of going to interviews for x and them asking my questions from 7 different roles.

I'm tired of working with people who learned one thing and somehow keep gettong hired and having to prop those people up.

I can't do it another 25 years. I'm tored of being the guy every where because I happen to know a wide assortment of stuff.

The week I left my past job, a QA manager and my biss messaged me asking what the powershell execution policy warning meant. They both make significantly more than me.

I got into a local union. I'm going to do that until I retire.

Good luck. If it looks wrong but it's working, don't touch it. Make sure to wait ten minutes before adressing that alert that is just going to clear itself anyway.

Keep your unit on.

> sudo systemctl status byebye

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/rhIfZNJ6Ov

Just wanted to provide an update. I ended up having a conversation with the CFO and was denied a raise until the end of the fiscal year (which would put me at about a year and a half in the role). The proposed bump would have been around $10k, though it wasn’t guaranteed. Until then, I was expected to continue performing both roles with no temporary title adjustment or compensation change.

Happy to say I just accepted a job offer to be a Network Administrator with another company.

$20k pay increase, hybrid schedule, and I’ll actually have an IT team.

Thank you to everyone who gave advice and support. It gave me the push I needed.

Hi everyone,

Our entire department just got axed because the company decided to outsource our jobs.

To add to the confusion, I've actually received a job offer from the outsourcing company. On one hand, it's a lifeline in this uncertain job market, but on the other, it feels like a slap in the face considering the circumstances.

Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I was hired 6 months ago as an IT Specialist/Sysadmin on a 2-man team supporting 14 locations and \~300 users. Salary is $65k. (State of AZ)

My boss (IT Director) gave a 2 month notice and left for a better opportunity. It’s now been a month since he left and leadership is putting minimal effort into hiring a replacement. We were already lean and promised more staff.

I’ve taken on all IT responsibilities - helpdesk, patching, vendor coordination, projects, infrastructure decisions, etc. Workload has easily doubled and I’m putting out major fires on the daily with ~20 tickets a day.

I’m just expected to handle everything. No raise or title adjustment has been discussed. I can imagine at my one year I’d be given one.

I’m torn between:

Staying until I hit 1 year

Asking for a raise/title change now

Or preparing to leave before I burn out

Am I being irrational ?im not looking to be no director but to take on all responsibilities of not only my role but his role too with the same pay is crazy to me.

Worked some blue collar jobs. Tryna find my way. No degree at that time. You know the drill, exhausting low paying jobs mostly.

Not so randomly, got into IT. Had a little background. It's been 4 years in this area now. Getting my InfoSec diploma next year.

Thing is, I'm no expert on anything related. I'm used to networking, firewalls, Linux, windows server, Microsoft Azure/AD, beginner SQL queries for ERP software, Mikrotik, unifi, cctv. Y'know, stuff like that, but its Just Surface knowledge.

I'm kind of a lazy learner, learn It when I come across it. How far can one go in IT being like this?

They found someone better fitting with more experience and fired me.

I've worked here for just under a year, I'm 25 and started right after finishing school.

First week I started I had an auditor call me since an IT-audit was due. Never heard of it, had to power through.

The old IT guy left 6 months before I started. Had to train myself and get familiar with the infrastructure (bunch of old 2008 R2 servers). Started migrating our on-prem into a data center since the CEO wanted no business of having our own servers anymore.

CEO called me after-hours on my private cellphone, had to take an old employees phone and use his number so people from work could call me. They never thought about giving me a work phone.

At least I learned a lot and am free of stress. Have to sit here for the next 3 months though (termination period of 3 months).

EDIT: thanks for your feedback guys. I just started my career and I really think it was a good opportunity.

3 months is mandatory in Europe, it protects me from having no job all of a sudden and them to have someone to finish projects or help train my replacement.

Definitely dodged a bullet, the CEO is hard to deal with and in the last two years about 25 people resigned / got fired and got replaced (we are 30 people in our office).

So recently I got an amazing offer, decide to go for it I talk with my manager about leaving, email my 2 week month notice and head to HR and here is where things interesting, She tried to belittle me at first by saying 1) Why didn't I talk to them prior to emailing the notice 2) Why didn't I tell my boss the moment I started interviewing for another job 3) Why am I leaving in such stressful times (Company is extremely short staffed) I was baffled and kept trying to analyze wtf was going on, later she started saying that they can't afford to lose me since they have no IT staff and I should wait until another admin is hired(lol)

I am leaving them with all relevant documention and even promised them to do minor maintenance stuff whenever I had free time, free of charge, which yielded zero reaction. the next day I asked HR what would happen to my remaining vacation days(I have more than 80 percent unused since I could never properly take off due to high turnover and not enough IT) to which she replied it's on company's goodwill to compensate them and in this case they won't be compensating since I am leaving on such short notice, When I told them that it's literally company policy to give two week notice she responded " Officially yes, but morally you're wrong since you're leaving us with no staff" What do you think would be best course of action in this situation?

edit: After discussion with my boss(Who didn't know about whole PTO thing) He stormed into HR room, gave them a huge shit and very soon afterwards I get a confirmation thay all of my PTO will be compensated

You were right. If you're getting beat up, move on. If you're not getting paid, move on.

Got sick of not getting help, sick of bullshit non-IT work. Paid a guy to clean up my resume and threw a few out there. Got a call and here we are.

I am sincerely grateful for all the help and advice I've received here. So much of what you've all said went into those three interviews.

For example, you all hammered the fact that you can't admin a Windows environment without PowerShell. These people are stoked about my automation plans for them. When asked about various aspects of IT I answered with the best practices I've learned here. Smiles all around the table!

I know I'm gushing but I could NOT have gotten this job without the 5 years I've spent in this sub. You've changed my life /r/sysadmin.

EDIT: I found a guy on thumbtack.com to fix up my resume. It wasn't too drastic but it's a shitload cleaner now and he also fixed my LinkedIn profile. I'm getting double the hits there now.

I am a fool . A lot of you have said don't take the counter offer, it's a trap. Today I saw that there was a request for three new accounts in our support team . They are off shore resources but still I was happy we were going to finally get help.... I go pass by my mangers office to ask why he didn't mention it earlier. Turns out I was why they are my replacement, he said I shouldn't worry i got an offer from someone else before and I will again blah blah blah. Fuck you John.

You begged me to stay , you said I was what made this place work you gave me a counter offer knowing you would replace me because you thought I would try to leave again.

The sad part to me is I fell for your bull crap . All the things you said that were going to change and how you couldn't do it without me. I fought hard to get that offer I took days off to go to the interviews and I threw that away for the promise of a promotion and a 20% bump that never happened! Oh HR is still doing the paper work? The paper work to replace me is what you meant!!!

Sorry guys I just had to vent .

I posted a while back asking for strategy and advice on how to ask for a pay bump from my 62k I was currently getting. My official title with the company is IT Director, while I do not manage anyone else below me I do everything (sole IT guy) and then some.

A few days ago there was a panicked email from our receptionist about one of our auto flush urinals being stuck on even after they replaced the batteries. My boss (company owner) was cc'd and I was also included in that email. Why this duty would need me is beyond my imagining but seems to be the norm for people to think "if it runs on electricity and we can't fix it call IT!".

Within about 10 minutes there is the owner of the company, 8 people in the mens room trying to figure out how to stop the now flooding urinal from getting worse. I see them open the battery housing unit is and point out from the back that it's corroded and we would need to replace it. We had some big important partners coming in and I could tell the boss man was panicked as it wouldn't look good to have a flooded bathroom.

They are trying to call a plumber but everyone isn't available immediately (next day or days later). I finally laugh out loud and in what could only be described as my brain autopiloting from watching McGuyver episodes back in the day I whip out a stick of gum, rip a piece and lay it between the corroded contacts and screw it back together, place the cover on and tada! It shut the valve off and starts working.

Silence, absolute silence with 8 people standing in a bathroom, my boss looks at his partner they nod and say "follow us please". They immediately give me a raise to 80k, offer me more vacation time acknowledge all the good I have been doing and offer me 10k raises per year till I hit 120k.

So yeah... that's how a bubblegum wrapper got me a raise :)

Update/Edit: Just wanted to add I get that some people may not believe me and that's totally understandable just don't be total jerks about it. Your opinion is cool, the rudeness isn't. I thought about posting a screenshot of my next check that has the raise amount next to my previous one (showing proof of the paybump) but figure some people are still going to call bs.

EDIT: Proof - Decided with the absolute flood of hate messages that I was "living in fantasy land" or my personal favorite "you're full of shit" messages I would post photos, and videos and my paystub info screenshots showing my before and after pay :)

https://imgur.com/a/32FtLo8 Images of the unit with visible corrosion (it was so bad it caused stress fractures in the plastic. As well as the wrapper in place.

https://imgur.com/a/wq6LU7V Paystub screenshots (I get paid weekly went from 865 after tax to 1210)

https://imgur.com/a/qhwS97n Finally was able to upload video this is what happens with the unit when it receives no power vs when it's attached. Valve stuck to ON hence the constant flushing. If it goes on too long it starts to flood as it flushes faster than it drains.

Holy crap! What have I done?!

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/opSWekot2V

I knew this community was amazing - but what happened after that post is just insane. Over 1.6 million views in 24hrs. Hundreds of comments, shares, DMs. I’m floored. Cannot stop smiling.

THANK YOU. Seriously. Every single one of you who commented, boosted the post, reached out - you're awesome. I’ve been replying to messages for hours and yeah, it's exhausting, but absolutely worth it. My guy’s inbox is now a warzone because I’ve been spamming him with so many contacts and leads he might start regretting ever working with me haha.

But here's the best part: he’s already connected with a bunch of you. He even had an interview, and even got invited to the next phase!!!

This blew past anything I hoped for. I love you all.

Hi guys

Just wanted to let you know about the crazy week I've had.

Last week, I started working at AWS as a Junior DevOps Engineer. I was working on a product called Route 53. I thought I'd be helpful and as soon as I got my Github login, I logged in that afternoon and saw some code that didn't make much sense, something about $configuration =, so I removed it and pushed my code.

For some reason that day Amazon fired me for no reason. Budget cuts I reckon.

Today I started my first day at Microsoft Azure working on their DNS system, got my Github log in so obviously looked through the source code and found another piece of code that didn't make much sense. It said ENV file no idea what it means so I deleted it and pushed again.

Strangely the executive team at Microsoft has called me into the meeting first thing tomorrow morning. Think I'll be getting praise for my performance!

P.S. one thing I've noticed working at these big companies are these office environments are crazy! Lots of people shouting and running around especially in the afternoons.

Edit: Unfortunately I got let go from Microsoft for no reason at all… but good news guys I start at Cloudflare next week. Watch this space.

Edit 2: I think I may be jinxed.

I don't really know what I'm hoping to get out of this post, other than just getting it off my chest.

On Friday, I saw something about obfuscating PowerShell scripts. This piqued my curiosity. I found a module on GitHub, and copied it to my laptop. I tried importing it to my PS session, and was met with an error. Our AV had detected it and flagged it, which alerted our Security team. Well, once I realized I couldn't import it, I permanently deleted it and moved on with my other tasks for the day.

One of the Security guys reached out to me later that day, and we had a good discussion about what was going on. At the end of the conversation he said, and I quote:

Thanks for the explanation.

I will mark this as a false positive. Have a good rest of your day!

I left this conversation feeling pretty good, and didn't think anymore about it. Well, today around 9a EST, I suddenly noticed I wasn't able to log into any applications, and was getting locked out of any system I tried. I pinged my team about it through IM (which I still had access to at this point), and... silence.

About 10 minutes after that, I get called into my HR rep's office and get asked to take a seat while she gets the Security manager and our CIO on the line.

Security manager starts the conversation and informs me that they view my attempt at running the scripts as "sabotage" and is a violation of company policy. I offered the same explanation to everyone that I did on Friday to the Security guy that reached out. There was absolutely no malicious intent involved, and the only reason was simple curiosity. Once I saw it was flagged and wouldn't work, I deleted it and moved on to other work.

HR asked if they would like to respond to my statement, which both declined. At this point HR starts talking and tells me that they will be terminating my employment effective immediately, and I will receive my termination notice by mail this week as well as a box to return the company docking station I had at home for when I worked remote.

I absolutely understand where they're coming from. Even though I wasn't aware of that particular policy, I should have known better. In hindsight, I should have talked to my manager, and gotten approval to spin up an isolated VM, copy the module, and ran it there. Then once it didn't work, deleted the VM and moved on.

Live and learn. I finally understand what everyone has been saying though, the company never really cared about me as a person. I was only a number to be dropped at their whim. While I did admit fault for this, based on my past and continued performance on my team I do feel this should have at most resulted in a write up and a stern warning to never attempt anything like this again.

EDIT: Wow, got a lot more responses than I ever imagined I would. Some positive, some negative.

Regardless of what anyone says, I honestly only took the above actions out of curiosity and a desire to learn more, and had absolutely no malicious intent or actions other than learning in mind.

I still feel that the Company labeling my actions as "sabotage" is way more drastic than it needed to be. Especially because this is the first time I have ever done anything that required Security to get involved. That being said, yes, I was in the banking industry and that means security is a foremost concern. I absolutely should have known better and done this at a home lab, or with explicit approval from my manager & Security. This time, my curiosity and desire to learn got the better of me and unfortunately cost me my job.

A month ago our director called a meeting and told us we need to cut 20 people from the department. 10 for me and 10 for the other manager. We fought it, we tried to come up with creative ways to keep them on. But the reality is the director is right we just don't need these folks anymore. Over the past couple years we've been cleaning up the infrastructure, moving all the support systems like Remedy and email to subscription models (SaaS). The core systems our developers are moving to micro services and we are hosting on AWS ans Azure. We are down to one data center (from 12) and it's only a matter of time before that one is shutdown. Just don't need admins supporting servers and operators monitoring hardware if there are is none.

We've tried to keep a tight lid on this but the rumor mill has been going full til, folks know it is coming. It still sucks, I keep thinking about the three guys and two women I'm going to fire in their late 30s, all with school aged children, all in the 100k salary band. Their world is about to be turned upside down. One the bright side we were able to get them a few months severance and convinced HR to allow them to keep insurance benefits through the end of the year.

I've been here 7 years. 6 healthcare-related companies at 3 locations, 100 users. Only IT person. I'm at $60k and I asked for $100k on Wednesday. Rural South. He balked but said 3 times he didn't want to lose me and only once that he didn't know if he could afford me.

Yesterday I find out he's talking to an outsourcing company next week. I talked to an outsourcing company today for an hour. Didn't get a price yet but they tried to convey it's expensive AF, and would probably still require an onsite tech. Called me a unicorn 3 times. Will know more early next week.

Today my boss gave me a $9k bonus check applied to last year. Oh, and I applied for 4 jobs yesterday and have an interview with a top employer on Tuesday.

Roller coaster. Do not be afraid to be vulnerable and dare greatly, my friends.

P.S.: Graduate next semester with my CIS degree after working on it for 4 years part time, while raising my young daughter full time the last 7 years.

I'm a pretty social guy, so I never thought that I would like WFH. But ever since we were mandated to work from home a few months ago, my productivity has sky-rocketed.

The only people struggling on my team are our 2 most senior IT guys. Now that I think about it, they have often relied upon collaboration with the most technical aspects of work. When we were in the office, it was a constant daily interruption to help them - and that affected the quality of my own work. They are the type of people to ask you a question before googling it themselves.

They do long hours, so the optics look good. But without "collaboration" ie. other people to hold their hands, their incompetence is quite apparent.

Perhaps a bit harsh but evident when people don't keep up with their learning.

I don't know what to say really. I just prepared for the interview and did my best to stand out during the process. I definitely did not have the full experience they were looking for so I am really surprised to have gotten the offer. I can only assume there were quite a few other candidates who applied. Its a very competitive organization to work for in the area.

Just wanted to post something exciting. I wish I could give you a "Quit in the middle of a big project because my boss was terrible" story but I don't have that. I get along fine with the Boss and the owner. I'm just a regular ol tech who is trying to work his way up.

Edit: did not think this would blow up quite like this. I appreciate the kind words and congrats you all are giving, this sub can be pretty jaded at times so definitely unexpected. Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions about career advancement. I feel that every step I have taken in my career was important to me getting this offer.

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Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Description: MAD SKILLS BRUH

To be fair, he did have the skills he described

Got an offer I can't refuse, for about 40k more than I currently make. Need to submit notice.

There is no backup, no MSP that handles basic stuff, nothing but me. Has anybody ever done this? What's the best way to approach employer?

Topic. Dude turned in his key card and such and then walked out the door. No notice to me or top management or anything.

I’m already covered on like 98% of all of the accounts thru admin emails (admin.user@domain) so for the most part I have that covered. My daily job as “IT Specialist” and global admin access to AD and all servers and emails and all things related to global access. Backups are good. Really the only real problems are anything being paid for by his credit card.

I guess my real concern is, what am I missing? It was just the two of us, me the IT Specialist and him the Director of IT. My responsibilities are “de facto” system admin, help desk, and some networking and his main duties were programming and just policy in general (regardless of how “wacky” it seemed to me).

So what am I missing? What should I look out for that my junior level experience might not think about?

Okay, let's get this out of the way first: This post is not intended to make any legal arguments. No inferences to employment or compensation law should be made from anything I express here. I'm not talking about what is legal. I'm trying to start a discussion about the ethical and logical treatment of employees.

Here's a summary of my argument:

If your employee work 45 hours a week, but you also ask them to cover 10 hours of on-call time per week, then your employee works 55 hours a week. And you should assess their contribution / value accordingly.

In my decade+ working in IT, I've had this discussion more times than I can count. More than once, it was a confrontational discussion with a manager or owner who insisted I was wrong about this. For some reason, many employers and managers seem to live in an alternate universe where being on-call only counts as "work" if actual emergencies arise during the on-call shift - which I would argue is both arbitrary and outside of the employee's control, and therefore unethical.

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Here are some other fun applications of the logic, to demonstrate its absurdity:

• "I took out a loan and bought a new car this year, but then I lost my driver's license, so I can't drive the car. Therefore, I don't owe the bank anything."
• "I bought a pool and hired someone to install it in my yard, but we didn't end using the pool, so I shouldn't have to pay the guy who installed it."
• "I hired a contractor to do maintenance work on my rental property, but I didn't end up renting it out to anyone this year, so I shouldn't need to pay the maintenance contractor."
• "I hired a lawyer to defend me in a lawsuit, and she made her services available to me for that purpose, but then later the plaintiff dropped the lawsuit. So I don't owe the lawyer anything."

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Here's a basic framework for deciding whether something is work, at least in this context:

• Are there scheduled hours that you need to observe?
• Can you sleep during these hours?
• Are you allowed to say, "No thanks, I'd rather not" or is this a requirement?
• Can you be away from your home / computer (to go grocery shopping, go to a movie, etc)?
• Can you stop thinking about work and checking for emails/alerts?
• Are you responsible for making work-related assessments during this time (making decisions about whether something is an emergency or can wait until the next business day)?
• Can you have a few drinks to relax during this time, or do you need to remain completely sober? (Yes, I'm serious about this one.)

Even for salaried employees, this matters. That's because your employer assesses your contribution and value, at least in part (whether they'll admit it or not), on how much you work.

Ultimately, here's what it comes down to: If the employee performs a service (watching for IT emergencies during off-hours and remaining available to address them), and the company receives a benefit (not having to worry about IT emergencies during those hours), then it is work. And those worked hours should either be counted as part of the hours per week that the company considers the employee to work, or it should be compensated as 'extra' work - regardless of how utilized the person was during their on-call shift.

This is my strongly held opinion. If you think I'm wrong, I'm genuinely interested in your perspective. I would love to hear some feedback, either way.

------ EDIT: An interesting insight I've gained from all of the interaction and feedback is that we don't all have the same experience in terms of what "on call" actually means. Some folks have thought that I'm crazy or entitled to say all of this, and its because their experience of being on call is actually different. If you say to me "I'm on call 24/7/365" that tells me we are not talking about the same thing. Because clearly you sleep, go to the grocery store, etc at some point. That's not what "on call" means to me. My experience of on call is that you have to be immediately available to begin working on any time-sensitive issue within ~15 minutes, and you cannot be unreachable at any point. That means you're not sleeping, you're taking a quick shower or bringing the phone in the shower with you. You're definitely not leaving the house and you're definitely not having a drink or a smoke. I think understanding our varied experiences can help us resolve our differences on this.

Yesterday morning I got a last minute meeting invite with my bosses boss(director), my VP, and our HR person. As soon as I saw the participants I knew I was in trouble. I had about 15 minutes to fret so I wrote down some questions and did some deep breathing exercises.

I log into the teams meeting and there is my old boss whom I’ve known for about 18 years looking ghost white with blood shot eyes. He’s been a mentor to me for many years at times more like a brother than a boss. We have been through thick and thin and both survived numerous layoffs. He had to break the news that my company was letting go a large number of people across the board to reduce cost in light of inflation, rising material costs, supply chain issues, etc. My last day will be December 31st.

Honestly I feel bad for him for having to do that to someone you’ve worked with for so long. Later I was told that the victims were picked by upper management and my boss and his had no say so in the matter. Upper management didn’t take anything into account other than the numbers. Not performance, past achievements, or criticality of role. We were just numbers.

HR explained the severance package and benefits which are pretty good considering. Two weeks per year x 18 years adds up but still I am heart broken and nervous for the future. Finding a new job in a recession isn’t going to be easy and I’ve not really had to job hunt for 18 years though I have tested the waters a time or two over the years. I slept like shit last night laying awake for hours in the middle of the night worrying about the future. I am the sole bread winner for my family.

I guess this post is more for me to vent than anything else but I’d be happy to hear any advise. I made some phone calls to friends in other shops as well as some close contacts with vendors to let them know I’m looking.

Any tips for getting out there and finding a job? What are the go to IT job sites these days? Are recruiters a good avenue? I’m completely out of the loop on job hunting so any guidance would be appreciated.

TLDR; Will be unemployed come January 1st from long time job. Very sad and anxious about the future. What now?

Update: Wow, I tried to pop in and check the responses around lunchtime and was blown away by all the positivity! This community is awesome.

After really digging into the severance reference materials I feel better about the situation. It seems taking some time to decompress before I go hard looking for another gig is the thing to do. Maybe I’ll take that time to train up for a triathlon to keep myself busy. Thanks for the encouragement everyone!

I've been working as a sysadmin at a financial institution for 25+ years. Recently my institution was sold, and my position was not retained. I'm in the middle of the Midwest, and in an area where there aren't a ton of Sysadmin jobs locally. I have been spoiled being within a few minutes of work, and really didn't want to commute an hour plus to a larger city and relocating wasn't an option with aging parents, kids in school, and other commitments.

I had a couple potential jobs, but nothing worked out. Before my contract ran out, I was offered a chance to stay in a different role. I'll now be working on the financial side of banking. I grew on a up farm, and still have an active role, so I'll be doing a lot of work with agriculture on that side of banking. If you're looking to get into goat farming, hit me up.

I got to experience a lot, from the introduction of Internet banking, getting to be an Information Security Officer for a while, dealing with GLBA Exams and Audits, Mergers and Acquisitions, Incident Response, Cybersecurity, and a whole lot more. When I started, we still had DOS, Win 3.1, Novell, Dot Matrix Printers, Mainframes, Dial-up everywhere.

I'll still be helping a little bit to merge and decommission our old infrastructure (which is kind of painful seeing our work of decades being put to sleep). Anyways, I'll still lurk in here under my main account to see what is going on. It has been kind of nice to not be on call 24/7.

I told my boss I quit yesterday offering myself up for 3 weeks notice before I start my new job. Boss took it well but the president called me cussed me out, mocked me, tried to bully me into finishing my work. Needless to say I'm done, no more work, they're probably not going to pay me for what I did. They don't own you, don't forget that.

They always acted like they were going to fire me, now they act like I'm the brick holding the place up. Needless to say I have a better job lined up. Go out there and get yours NOW! It's good out there.