You have to wonder about some people, and their problem solving abilities..

I work for an ISP, and our current main support person is off work with stress, and has been for over a month. The director in charge of support has also decided he has had enough and is no longer doing support. So we are down two full time support people.

So what do the powers that be do? hire NEW support people?
…….NO

Outsource our support to another country/company?
…….NO!!

They decide to give the support roles to the people in my office, who are 1 system Admin, 2 Full time developers, and 1 part time developer. So as well as our normal stressful, rush work that fills up 8 hours a day in the office, we now have to cover an extra 16 hours a day work (which is apparently so STRESSFUL our current support guy is off Ill)

Now am I alone in thinking that if a job is so stressful it makes people Ill, that giving it to someone already in a stressful job is a bit silly?

Oh, and the best bit dear reader. Guess what bonus/extra we are getting for covering 2 peoples work..

A pay rise?
………No

More Holidays?
………No

Fuck All!!!

But I should not complain, as in December I was doing My job, Helping Covering Support Roles, Helping Out other departments, And covering the SysAdmins job fixing/repairing Servers.. I got given a extra cash Christmas bonus of 50quid… Woooo Hooooo

Well the CV is under a re-write… Hopefully it will be done before that bit of floating straw lands on the camels back, and I do something silly…..

pointed out this morning that we really should have a medical note preventing us being put under too much stress due to hobbies of playing with dangerous weapons..

Anyway.. here ends my break so back to work and hopefully someone will invent the time machine allowing me to do that 12 hours work a day in the normal 9-5 office hours.

…………………………And relax