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Hey everyone, need to get something off my chest – I should never have taken this job. 🤦♂️
I thought I was signing up for a chance to learn and grow as a network engineer, but boy, was I wrong. Here’s why:
– Promised remote job, but have to be onsite way too often
– Pay lower than expected
– Lack of support and training from team
– Not allowed to work on interesting projects
I’m at my wit’s end here. Anyone else been in a similar situation? What would you do in my shoes? 🤔
Solution:
– Keep applying to other jobs and don’t settle
– Consider reaching out to HR or upper management about the issues you’re facing
Let’s help each other out and share our experiences. Hang in there! 💪 #SupportNetwork #CareerGrowth #NetworkEngineering
it sounds like a really tough situation, and I hope you find something better soon.
This sounds like the customary dealings of a small shop. The position was available for a reason. CCIE-level engineers is very subjective. I knew a CCIE that couldn’t configure BGP and blamed it on not having glasses he never wore, so I stepped in a configured it even though I was the network manager at the time and he was being paid out of our professional services hours. This stuff happens all the time, I’ve grown to expect the bait and switch.
Keep applying, stay strong.
This comes with the territory of working for a small business unfortunately. The even more unfortunate reality is, while certainly possible (I did it), it’s very very difficult to go back to enterprise once you pivot to a smaller shop. I started applying immediately after starting at a toxic SMB and it took years for one to give me a chance.
I have no practical advice or wisdom to share, not that you were looking for any, and hope you find something else before you lose your mind.
I know your pain
CCIE level without the cert? Fucking run. I got my R&S CCiE over a decade ago and would never run around bragging about be CCIE this or that. No one cares it’s incel type behavior.
This place sounds like a clown show that said no one is going to baby bird you knowledge in this career. You’ll be lucky if you ever encounter one person who has enough understanding to teach you and is also willing to do so.
First day no one saying hello or anything… wow lol, that’s just messed up. Hoarding knowledge, that makes learning the job take wayyyy longer than it should. That’s worse than the two terrible things that happened at my last job. Immediately after they gave me my laptop, there was a huge townhall where they announced a reorg. The manager and everyone that interviewed me – I would now no longer be on their team, but on my own 1 person team – reporting directly to the CTO. (I was hired as a senior analyst, not even a manager) Oh, and the only person that could train me? He’s in India and works normal hours for his time zone. The very specific thing I said in the interviews I didn’t like about the job I had before that.
One thing that no one else is asking- are they not reimbursing mileage on your vehicle? I get that most organizations won’t reimburse for lengthy commutes, as you accepted the position with commute length in mind. However that’s something that definitely needs to be discussed if the scope of what’s expected has changed or is different from what you were told prior to signing the contract. Ultimately there is no law for mileage reimbursement in most States, so you really don’t have any course of action other than quitting.
I can relate to some to of this. It sucks. And I’m stuck. Working to get out, but its going to be an uphill battle for me. 2 years in – its been a bait and switch, empty promises, no growth, no learning, no training, trial by fire and combat, and a whole lot of figuring shit out on your own only to find out someone else maybe did know the answer. And this isn’t a small company either, but they sure act like it. Lots of outsourcing, lots of security issues (we just had an incident, oh fun!), lots of silos.
Man, this is a truly effed up situation! I can’t blame you for making that move though. The whole game with leveling up in IT is trying to find opportunities wherever you can so this type of calculated risk is just something we have to do. It does suck when it does not work out though. Good luck getting up out of there. Sounds like you are surrounded by some clowns.