PTO listed as a benefit? Must be the USA π
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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.
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.
Wait this is just my current job but with double the pay...
fuck I gotta get a new job
Yeah, you need a new job. This is also my current job for not enough pay. You're getting shafted.
With that being said, this isn't really 3 jobs like the post implies. If you've worked with data integrations before, you know how SQL, APIs and cloud solutions interact.
Shhh don't let hr know, or your manager
Same
same here, ouch
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anything to do with printers better be 200k or higher
My job in data analytics occasionally involves pulling printing volume data. Does that count as "anything to do with printers"?
Because fuck trying to aggregate by printer location when the location string is manually entered by humans with different "standards" and varying adherence even to their stated standard.
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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."
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.
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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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.
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
Thereβs not enough hours in day to do all those tasks that this will entail. Youβll constantly be dragged between different domains nd have no time to focus on anything
Source: Iβve done this job before. Company wasnβt even big either. Just 30 people or so
Honestly for 30 people it's understandable, hiring properly would be like 10% of the company already lol
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It manager level for entry level pay
Have you seen pay these days? Where are you getting 110k entry level?
If it's an onsite position, it depends on living costs.
Some people are claiming 3k for rent is the minimum in the area. Just north of Beverly Hills.
That's half the salary, just for a studio apartment. Then there's another chunk for taxes and they're left with 1-2k for general expenses and living life.
Salaries isn't a simple thing you can move from one area to another
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California has a minimum wage for software employees to be salaried and not pay them overtime (salaried exempt). It's about $123k. I've never seen an entry level position that didn't expect overtime, so $110k is actually low unless it's a part time internship.
Also leaving that link there for anyone who might have just discovered their employer is doing wage theft and owes them a lot of money.
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I guess where I work, if you're on carpet you're 80-110k salary for jobs like purchasing, inventory etc not engineers or supoort. if you work in shipping or manufacturing you're around 65-85k depending on experience
Must be nice
The pay scale people have become accustomed to is absurd.
110k usd is entry level pay? I hate america so much its unreal.
"Manager" in this context generally doesn't mean someone who has people reporting to them, it means someone who manages the IT. It can absolutely be an early-career role. See also: equipment manager, facilities manager etc.
I've worked at places with <50 people where the 2 IT people had "manager" titles, but they were just "the IT people" in practice - one handled user stuff, the other was focused on the client-facing infrastructure.
Our lone HR person was also the "HR manager", we had a single "accounting manager", and a couple more like that. Some departments ended up expanding and the "managers" did end up with direct reports, but that's kinda just how small businesses work, this posting sounds a lot like that.
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I've worked there, for not nearly that amount of money :(
P1: Printer not working again!
P2: Ah I'll go tell that programmer guy
That company, probably
βYouβre good with computers, right?β
I swear these people probably ask their Uber drivers to fix their transmission because theyβre βgood with carsβ.
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
Fuckin sherman oaks ca too. That 110k isn't going far
This is basically my current job. Almost the same pay (120k) in the Seattle area.
I work 50-70 hours a week
Youβre worth $200k in that HCOL area.
I worked a short stint as a network administrator for a company I did not like at all. I figured it'd be a foot in the door, but boy was I wrong. I didn't last 6 months, I was doing work of a network tech, network admin, security tech for door locks and cameras, a custodian, and general computer tech in all that. It was a VASTLY underpaid position for the work.
Typical of a 20-30 people company where everyone has to do different things.
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You wonβt get away with 100k if printer issues are included.. your soul and those of the other employees would be a start.
Found the listing for anyone curious about the company. It's a recruitment company recruiting for a law firm.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/information-technology-manager-at-bookman-consulting-4453231245
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