It&#x27;s nice to see someone have such a nice experience with their employment history. I actually have the opposite experience.<p>tldr: I am happy you had such good luck; mine sucked.<p>Worked in Tech Support (for a tech-related company), made tools to make mine and colleagues&#x27; from the department job easier and faster. This caught some attention from the infrastructure department, which got me &quot;promoted&quot; to junior sys admin. Nearly everyone kept point out how useful I am[1]. Yay!<p>But it&#x27;s not really that much of a yay. It&#x27;s now expected of me to <i>still</i> do tech support, work on those tools, do sys-ops for some big&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;enterprise clients, be the &quot;errand boy&quot; for the other [senior] sys admins (ie, do stuff that&#x27;s &quot;below&quot; them or that they don&#x27;t know how to do)<p>It gets worse. I am the lowest paid employee in the company, too. I get paid less than our DNS admins, simply because they&#x27;re there longer (there&#x27;s this certain &quot;culture&quot; in the company which I&#x27;ll get to in a bit) and they <i>hardly</i> do anything, because most of their job is automated (and more so since I made their job even easier). I wouldn&#x27;t even mind doing all this, but then pay me for all the three jobs I do. The reason for my salary is &quot;historic&quot;: Is started working as a student, and even though I did get a few raises since my initial salary, it&#x27;s still the lowest one in the company because the &quot;base&quot; salary is still what my student one was. I get paid ~£450 while the next person with the lowest salary gets ~£600 which is an [also under-appreciated] girl from the DNS department. Everyone from the tech support had at least ~£700, while my two sys admin colleagues get ~£1100 + bonuses; oh and I don&#x27;t get bonuses for the same shit that they do; they even make me do something and then get the bonus for what I did. Sometime in the past they agreed to track &quot;overtime&quot; (which also includes any <i>really</i> special stuff for the really big clients which are outside of the contract that we&#x27;d do) under one user on Harvest, and just split it between themselves. I was given access to the harvest account and I tracked my time on it because I was told to do that. But they&#x27;d still split the money in half? The fuck. When I asked about it because I was genuinely not sure if I was doing something wrong, the response I got is, and I quote--because the absurdity of that moment is etched into my mind--was, &quot;but I have three kids and you don&#x27;t.&quot; I was too shocked to say anything and just murmured something in agreement. The other admin hasn&#x27;t got any kids. He doesn&#x27;t even have pets.<p>Also, some of the longer-employed employees are trying to push this &quot;we&#x27;re a family&quot; bullshit, when anyone who&#x27;s not <i>them</i> is clearly not part of the family, which is clear from how they all interact. If anyone from one of the &quot;newbs&quot; tries to buddy up, all they get is attitude.<p>And can&#x27;t look for another job, because I wouldn&#x27;t be able to relocate due to certain life circumstances that tie me to this town (at least for now).<p>Typing this is just making me furious so I&#x27;ll stop now. I&#x27;ll just like to add that, I am not in <i>need</i> of money, because I come from what is considered a &quot;middle class&quot; (I hate the labels, but they get the point across here) background. However the unfairness is what really gets to me.<p>[1]: Maybe I&#x27;m retarded and they want to make me feel nice.