• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    A German three letter agency had a similar ad. They were looking for someone who was proficient in encryption, hacking, protocols on Windows, Mac and Linux, and a few other things in that area. Experienced both in programming and leadership. And as a cherry on the top, this person would have to have knowledge about all the legal aspects of all of this, too.

    All for a midrange bureaucrat salary. A security expert commented on this something like “if i had someone with that kind of skill set and experience, I would hire him out for a daily fee about as high as their offered monthly salary.”

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      Many years ago I got offered 20% over minimum wage to manage, among other things, all email servers of a large banking association representing >90% of a national market.

      It was less than what a Tesco cashier was making in the area.

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        When I was a student, I already had my Novell admin certificate, so it got some jobs on the side. Someone pointed me to a law firm where the owner wanted their PCs networked. We met, he showed me the list of hardware he wanted to buy - everything top notch, big server, new PCs with all bells, whistles and gongs back then, 19in rack for all the necessities, etc. That list was an offer from an expensive office outfitter he knew.

        He “just” needed someone to install the stuff. I could easily have done that, but all he offered was a kind of internship. Oh what I could learn from working with top of the pop equipment! I told him I was here because it already knew everything that was needed. He then offered me that I could take the old PCs as “compensation”.

        I left, and warned others not to waste time with that idiot.

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          And people still get mad when we give honest feedback about compensation.

          Shout-out to the recruiter who tried to convince me to take a 60k paycut because nobody will pay my current rate ( the one I was already being paid ). I strive to reach your level of audacity one day.

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    Eh I had a job like this. Was for a small company. If that was a large corp id say fuck no but if small company? Its fine.

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      Exactly. Company makes doors, by hand. 10 employees total and 2 computers. Easiest job you’ve ever had and you actually feel guilty every time they pay you for the first few months.

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    Am I crazy that those sound reasonable IT manager level things? If company size is 100-200 endpoints, the IT manager should understand all of these, if he/she doesn’t, I would not want to work at that IT team

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      There’s not enough hours in day to do all those tasks that this will entail. You’ll constantly be dragged between different domains nd have no time to focus on anything

      Source: I’ve done this job before. Company wasn’t even big either. Just 30 people or so

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        Honestly for 30 people it’s understandable, hiring properly would be like 10% of the company already lol

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          When you consider that IT is used by everyone and often the entire company is built on IT and communication i would hire properly

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      You’re not crazy, it’s just that posts like this are generally tribal. Nobody here actually knows what the day-to-day of that job is, they just want a pretext to vent about their own experiences of being asked to do work that they didn’t want to do.

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        also potentially unpopular opinion: I’ve encountered about as many engineers over the years that were under-skilled for their positions, than ones who were competent. Whenever I see posters whine about how unreasonable the requirements for a job posting is, I always instinctively read it in one of the former’s voices…

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      “You’re good with computers, right?”

      I swear these people probably ask their Uber drivers to fix their transmission because they’re “good with cars”.

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      Our client is a large Law Firm in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks Area) that is looking to hire a talented IT Manager. They have an excellent culture and do a great job at retaining their staff long-term. This person MUST live in LA and be willing to be on site!!

      Though it’s not an IT company so their IT department may very well be like 2 or 3 people

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    This is basically my current job. Almost the same pay (120k) in the Seattle area.

    I work 50-70 hours a week

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    Honestly, this is what we currently have at our mid sized company. We get paid dogshit, nobody has a dedicated position we’re just all “IT” and we do everything to keep shit running

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      Well you must have excellent communication skills.

      For the actual IT stuff, they don’t really care.

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        That one’s the dealbreaker. If you do all that stuff, you only have time for a grunt or two from behind your 17 inch TFT monitor.

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    You won’t get away with 100k if printer issues are included… your soul and those of the other employees would be a start.

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    Sounds like my job at a small full-house IT company. We did anything IT related the customer wanted. We got paid $1.2k by a rich guy to fix his son’s Roblox account once.

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        Probably. Also wonder if they’re paying the employee directly or if the recruitment company is leeching a bunch off the top

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    Would be an OK salary for most of Europe. Most countries here have relatively solid health care insurance, affordable education and a pension fund included, so that some of the biggest costs of living in the US don’t even make a dent in the salary.