Just paid my own salary (mostly)

[Gentle Ben]

I took over the North American IT department of a company based out of New Zealand recently.
Of all the things they handed off to me, the one I wasn't looking forward to the most was the Verizon Wireless account.
Last month I broke down and went through all of the lines. I found:
A few lines that were still in use by former employees (by over a year).
Over 30 lines for tablets (no longer in use by the business).
A dozen full lines that were simply not in use (and even a few with phones that aren't supported by VZW network any more!).

Our monthly bill just dropped from $2750/month to $915/month.

Not sure why I'm telling everybody this, aside from having a brief moment of professional pride. And laughing at the stupidity of NOT having someone keeping track of things like that.

 

[Setherial]

I took over the North American IT department of a company based out of New Zealand recently.
Of all the things they handed off to me, the one I wasn't looking forward to the most was the Verizon Wireless account.
Last month I broke down and went through all of the lines. I found:
A few lines that were still in use by former employees (by over a year).
Over 30 lines for tablets (no longer in use by the business).
A dozen full lines that were simply not in use (and even a few with phones that aren't supported by VZW network any more!).

Our monthly bill just dropped from $2750/month to $915/month.

Not sure why I'm telling everybody this, aside from having a brief moment of professional pride. And laughing at the stupidity of NOT having someone keeping track of things like that.

wow

 

[LoneSage]

dumb it down for us why your bill went from that much to so little

 

[Gentle Ben]

dumb it down for us why your bill went from that much to so little

I turned off more than 40 lines that were not in use, or WERE in use by former employees who never turned in their phones.

 

[LoneSage]

When you say 'our' I took it for your family

Now I see it's for your company

OK

Congratulations

Your life is still shit

 

[Gentle Ben]

Your life is still shit

Hey now, this ain't the war room, buddeh!

 

[Kid Panda]

Nice, so you just gave more money to someone that doesn't give two shits about you.

 

[Gentle Ben]

Nice, so you just gave more money to someone that doesn't give two shits about you.

So negative...
No, last month I had a kidney stone. Went to ER on recommendation of Urgent Care doc (thought it might be appendix). AFTER insurance, ended up with a $2250 bill. Went to my boss and told him that I couldn't afford to live on my current salary. I asked for a $6k raise. He gave me an $8k raise.
So yeah...pretty decent company.

 

[LoneSage]

Why are you humblebragging to us?

 

[Lastblade]

Well done is better than well said. Good job.

 

[Decepticreep]

Imagine my confusion when I misread "salary" as "slavery."

 

[wyo]

You run an IT department for the North American region of a multi-national company yet only get paid $2000 a month?

 

[madman]

You run an IT department for the North American region of a multi-national company yet only get paid $2000 a month?

He needs to get into the box finding business to rake in the big bucks.

 

[FilthyRear]

He needs to get into the box finding business to rake in the big bucks.

Move back home, watch some boxing.

 

[ballzdeepx]

You run an IT department for the North American region of a multi-national company yet only get paid $2000 a month?

This,
Something doesn't add up here - If you're acting director or management level for an entire IT department - you're getting cucked to the max.

 

[JoeAwesome]

Why are you humblebragging to us?

For once, I agree with you.

You run an IT department for the North American region of a multi-national company yet only get paid $2000 a month?

Shit.

 

[Kid Panda]

This,
Something doesn't add up here - If you're acting director or management level for an entire IT department - you're getting cucked to the max.

Hence why I said they don't give two shits about you. He's getting raped and I'm the negative one.

 

[Gentle Ben]

I see where the misunderstanding is. I'm NOT the admin in any way. My boss in New Zealand is the IT admin for the entire company. I am the ONLY IT tech for the NA office, but I am still basically just an IT tech. And the numbers are significantly off, I said "mostly" because it's more than %50. So technically, I'm correct. Which is the best kind of correct.

 

[bubba966]

So negative...
No, last month I had a kidney stone. Went to ER on recommendation of Urgent Care doc (thought it might be appendix). AFTER insurance, ended up with a $2250 bill.

Damn son. When I went to go git checked out for wat ended up being a kidney stone my bill was $15 after insurance.

(i'm in the box finding business)

 

[Heinz]

The company I work for does telecommunication bill audits like this so to me this news just bores me to death.

 

[neo_mao]

$2000 per month is nothing to scoff at - that could buy 8000 chicken nuggets from Wendys. That’s like enough food to feed all of Mypos.

 

[Decepticreep]

My experience with remote IT support:

"Have you power failed the machine?"

Yes

"Then the issue is at your end."