SadisticPeppers
eXtreme Business
I've been in my current job for a month now, and I absolutely love it! 
To bring everyone up to speed, I got a huge promotion into the new job a month ago, and it came with quite the raise. Between the initial raise, and the fact I'm earning a bonus for working in the evenings, I'm earning about $10k more than I was prior. I'm working 1530-2400 Tuesday thru Saturday, which is my dream shift, since I can sleep in, and any appointments I need to make, I can schedule in the morning without having to take time off from work or wait for a holiday. Oh yeah, and despite being that we're a 24/7 operation, my boss told us that only one person per shift was really needed to work on a holiday, and it'd be on a volunteer basis. Anyone who worked the holiday would get double pay, meaning it'd come out to just shy of an extra $275 in my paycheck if I volunteered. Otherwise I'd get the holiday off like normal. And if the holiday happened to fall on one of my regular days off (Sunday or Monday), I'd get Tuesday off, meaning I'd still be getting quite a few 3-day weekends.
And as for the job itself, we mainly monitor the computer servers (including daily up-time, remaining hard drive capacity, and a couple other things) and networks for our Region, which is from Michigan to Puerto Rico, and almost never have to deal with customers. In fact, since I've started, we've had a grand total of three phone calls... not per person, three phone calls total, thought that's bound to increase somewhat as more people get hired on for the regional service lines. We do have to submit a daily report once a shift, and include anything that's misbehaving to let the local staff know for them to fix. We rotate that duty so that any one of us really only needs to do it once a week, and despite on the surface, being very extensive, a couple of us have timed ourselves, and just one of us could do the report by themselves in about 20-30 minutes without a problem.
My boss also made abundantly clear that he's pretty liberal when it comes to leave, so unless we truly screw up and give him a reason not to, he'll approve most of our leave requests. He also fought for us to eventually move to telework within the next six months, which means that we'll all be working from home 4 days a week, and only coming in 1 day a week to the office by this time next year.
And speaking of which, I spoke with my boss about moving from one site to another in the near future... both he and his boss officially allowed any of us to move around within the region. Before, it was in a bit of a grey area, and he was trying to get it officially approved, and his boss finally agreed to it a couple weeks ago. Not only would it mean I can move up to the next site up now, it'd get harder and harder for them to say "No" to me coming. For starters, any site that hosts a regional employee gets extra money thrown their way, and the last time I checked, no site director has ever said "No" to more money, and secondly, they get the inside track on any upcoming major projects, since my group is usually the first to hear about said projects (most of the time they only hear about it after it's done), and so the site can do something to prepare.
Right now, my plan is to stay right where I'm at until around September-October, and then move to the next site up. My boss said that even if there's an issue of space, he'll make sure the local site will get an offer they couldn't refuse. And my parentals are becoming more and more agreeable to eventually letting me take over their house. Not right away of course, since they still have the renters in it, and my folks wanna milk 'em for all it's worth, but eventually they wouldn't mind having a family member living in it, not just because they can have a vacation house down here, but since I'm family, they can claim the homestead exemption, which just got bumped up in the most recent election cycle, and which will take effect next year. In the interim, there's some awesome apartments not too far from where my folks live that I can rent. One area, for instance, was only built in the last 5 years, and for about $1450 a month, I can get a 3bd/2ba apartment with my own garage, an office/den, washer/dryer, balcony, and storage area. The balcony is definitely large enough to have quite a few DWC's on it, and I know that for quite a few of the units, the balconies are southeastern-facing, meaning any plants I put there will be getting plenty of sunlight. It'll also fix the problem of pollenation and getting sufficient airflow
To bring everyone up to speed, I got a huge promotion into the new job a month ago, and it came with quite the raise. Between the initial raise, and the fact I'm earning a bonus for working in the evenings, I'm earning about $10k more than I was prior. I'm working 1530-2400 Tuesday thru Saturday, which is my dream shift, since I can sleep in, and any appointments I need to make, I can schedule in the morning without having to take time off from work or wait for a holiday. Oh yeah, and despite being that we're a 24/7 operation, my boss told us that only one person per shift was really needed to work on a holiday, and it'd be on a volunteer basis. Anyone who worked the holiday would get double pay, meaning it'd come out to just shy of an extra $275 in my paycheck if I volunteered. Otherwise I'd get the holiday off like normal. And if the holiday happened to fall on one of my regular days off (Sunday or Monday), I'd get Tuesday off, meaning I'd still be getting quite a few 3-day weekends.
And as for the job itself, we mainly monitor the computer servers (including daily up-time, remaining hard drive capacity, and a couple other things) and networks for our Region, which is from Michigan to Puerto Rico, and almost never have to deal with customers. In fact, since I've started, we've had a grand total of three phone calls... not per person, three phone calls total, thought that's bound to increase somewhat as more people get hired on for the regional service lines. We do have to submit a daily report once a shift, and include anything that's misbehaving to let the local staff know for them to fix. We rotate that duty so that any one of us really only needs to do it once a week, and despite on the surface, being very extensive, a couple of us have timed ourselves, and just one of us could do the report by themselves in about 20-30 minutes without a problem.
My boss also made abundantly clear that he's pretty liberal when it comes to leave, so unless we truly screw up and give him a reason not to, he'll approve most of our leave requests. He also fought for us to eventually move to telework within the next six months, which means that we'll all be working from home 4 days a week, and only coming in 1 day a week to the office by this time next year.
And speaking of which, I spoke with my boss about moving from one site to another in the near future... both he and his boss officially allowed any of us to move around within the region. Before, it was in a bit of a grey area, and he was trying to get it officially approved, and his boss finally agreed to it a couple weeks ago. Not only would it mean I can move up to the next site up now, it'd get harder and harder for them to say "No" to me coming. For starters, any site that hosts a regional employee gets extra money thrown their way, and the last time I checked, no site director has ever said "No" to more money, and secondly, they get the inside track on any upcoming major projects, since my group is usually the first to hear about said projects (most of the time they only hear about it after it's done), and so the site can do something to prepare.
Right now, my plan is to stay right where I'm at until around September-October, and then move to the next site up. My boss said that even if there's an issue of space, he'll make sure the local site will get an offer they couldn't refuse. And my parentals are becoming more and more agreeable to eventually letting me take over their house. Not right away of course, since they still have the renters in it, and my folks wanna milk 'em for all it's worth, but eventually they wouldn't mind having a family member living in it, not just because they can have a vacation house down here, but since I'm family, they can claim the homestead exemption, which just got bumped up in the most recent election cycle, and which will take effect next year. In the interim, there's some awesome apartments not too far from where my folks live that I can rent. One area, for instance, was only built in the last 5 years, and for about $1450 a month, I can get a 3bd/2ba apartment with my own garage, an office/den, washer/dryer, balcony, and storage area. The balcony is definitely large enough to have quite a few DWC's on it, and I know that for quite a few of the units, the balconies are southeastern-facing, meaning any plants I put there will be getting plenty of sunlight. It'll also fix the problem of pollenation and getting sufficient airflow
