Last week on this fukk ass job,
year and a half of doing irrelevant tasks, nonsensical meetings with time conflicts, incompetent coworkers I have to step up for by default because they're too shook to take point., and being threatened to be fired everytime a customer is unhappy about irrational shyt. Oh, yeah and no access to the job I signed up for except for logging in a console to monitor the dashboard and send health reports every few hours.
Finally its over and these sneaky azz cacs are salty because its less than a 2 week notice (9 days), my fault for covering my azz and making sure I actually get the offer before letting them know i'm leaving. fukk'em.
I'm finding a few interesting things tho'.
1st is the revelation that I was essentially hired by the principal engineer to take point on a bunch of menial nonessential task that he doesnt want to do while he's playing COD all fukking day in between the 30 minutes of actual work he does in a week (I'm not making this shyt up). I was suppose to be a VDI solutions engineer, yet I never got to do any of the technical shyt, just emails, creating change tickets, etc. God forbid one of the client's c-suite execs calls us out to present and speak on shyt we have no clue about (couple of close calls though). These MF were lying to the customer and sending us out to put up a front like we are actually bringing value added services to the account. There was no knowledge transfer, lots of lying and exorbitant expectations keeping us under constant pressure,
Up to recently I've been able to blend in and remain lost in the shuffle long enough to keep getting a check and having plenty of downtime to skill up. But with the second engineer out, and other scrubs on my team who predictably refuse to step up, I had to start coming in 4 in the cotdamn morning and doing a bunch of meaningless busy work to keep up the appearance that my team is actually doing something to justify keeping this account active.
Found a job a week before Christmas, and now i'm bout to dip
2nd interesting thing is that when notifying my recruiter/account manager that I was leaving, She's all of a sudden willing to pony up the money to keep me on the contract, Same contract with no PTO, No benefits and 4 dollars less than my quoted rate (I was unemployed and had no leverage at the time). Now she's willing to pay me 10 dollar more an hour than the company I'm leaving them for which would put me well into the six fgures, but still no PTO
. Nah i'm good, I'll get 6 figures on my terms, I'm close enough as is and i'm actually looking to pivot into either IAM or cloud/network security. which ever happens first, I'm done with Virtualization, I'll gladly take a step backwards to pivto to another career field,. Finance wise me and wifey super solid on that front.
I'm more concerned with gaining the the missing foundational skills before progressing to that mid-senior/sneior role and having enough PTO to enjoy a few vacations, I'm not giving up on the grind, but I am scaling back and tempering my ambitions for a bit before making the next leap career wise.
4 years of this shyt , It's time to start measuring twice...no, thrice and cutting once. Stacking a fukkton of certs spanning multiple areas and technologies to impress HR is kinda played out to me, Only maintaining 3 certs max beyond this point, I'm chasing skills that will at least make me good enough to speak my way into a lucrative offer, alot of Hiring managers arent as cert happy as HR and have bee more impressed with how i answer questions and present myself.
sorry for the long post, had to get that shyt off LOL
since so few people know it.
