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Ivany2008 posted...

yeah.... isn't fun. Since I'm salary I ended up working Christmas weekend. That really irritated me, as I was on holidays to my hometown, and was forced to be stuck at my aunts house, not able to visit relatives. Mom paid for a plane ticket home, only for me to find out that night that I was off for the next week..... I was livid.

Yeah, one of my big reasons for leaving my old job was that I was constantly working 60 - 80 hour weeks and they did not give two shits. They had some "rule" where it you're constantly working 60 hours or more, they were supposed to hire people to help. They wouldn't hire anyone to help me. After a lot of begging and pleading, they finally brought on a contractor. There was so much work to do that we were both working 60 - 80 hour weeks. My dad died in late 2018. I was working on the way to his funeral.

The system administrator and the security architect both quit on the same day in 2019. Then I had to manage the firewalls by myself. I started looking for another job because I had had enough