Vent

Not only do I have 8 major projects (read IMPORTANT) I'm working on, but then I have to do all the little stuff too. Document users and their issues. Install all new hardware. Maintain and track orders. Find/update/replace firmware and drivers.

Ugh.

Being the only IT person (my boss does NOT count because she has WAAAAYYY to much shit on her plate, accounting, programming (not the same as what I do), branch reports, and managing stuff) at a company with 60+ users is a bitch. Everything is held up with bandaids and no issue can be fully resolved unless I do it. For example, our ticketing system (SUUUUPER IMPORTANT) is not being backed up! What the fuck were they thinking? And if shit were to hit the fan (like it almost did Friday) then I'd be the one getting in trouble. And now I'm the one in charge of figuring out how we are going to back it up...like I need more shit to do...

And then I get yelled at for not being able to "keep up" with everything.

What the fuck. How can I make people understand, I'm not sitting on Facebook all day, hell I'm hardly taking 30 min lunch breaks (I'm hourly and have an hour "off" for lunch). 

And the biggest thing is, I would LOVE more money, but what I really, truly seek, from my boss and the CFO and President is respect. Because they already trust me (or they don't realize how much power they have given me).

It's like, your world runs on computers, why won't you respect the people that are keeping them from fucking up?