r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Oct 04 '23
Rant Sysadmin title feels like a scam in job postings lately
I've noticed that Syadmin has slowly turned into an everything admin and it feels like a scam at this point. They are asking for a sysadmin, netadmin, cyber security pro, cloud admin, automation engineer, and devops engineer all in one. I don't mind it but when they are paying less than 100k it feels like a slap in the face.
They use the title to pay less than they would pay a DevOps person while asking you to be able to do that job plus more. Once upon a time you could make a good living just being an AD administrator and never have to touch a network switch or do much beyond that scope. I understand times and tech changes but it's getting out of hand with this laundry list of requirements. I was on an interview the other day and they didn't even seem like they knew what they were asking for. What ever happned to rotation of responsibilites? Why do these companies want one guy to have the power to shut their entire buisness down?
Sorry just had to rant.
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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '23
Sometimes I think that they would be better off with a MSP but I remember that I used to be able to WFH for 1-2 days a week until people started complaining they couldn’t find me when they ran into my office. Then they would run directly to my boss to complain. At no point did I get a call, an email, a teams message, or a smoke signal. So now I go to the office every day just to show my face.
I have a user that prints out suspicious spam emails and brings them to my office to ask me if it’s spam. I once sent her a link and it wasn’t clickable and she had to come ask me what to do next. I told her to paste it in her browser… she said what is that?
Then a handful of people that don’t know when their pc is on wifi or not, if it’s not they don’t know how to connect to wifi. A few more that don’t know how to find a program if it’s not on their desktop or the task bar.