Money: Today, I applied and was accepted for a part-time network engineering...

By compguy - 25/02/2010 15:39 - United States

Today, I applied and was accepted for a part-time network engineering position. Being contract work they asked me what I charge. I replied, "$12 an hour." After a look of surprise they accepted me for the position and said, "Our last guy charged $200 an hour, you're a bargain." FML

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Today, I was forced into accepting a "promotion" for a position that pays less than what I get right now. FML

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By smidge - 02/06/2009 06:05 - United States

Today, I got a call from an ad agency offering me a job. I was so excited, because I've been looking for work for a few months now and really wanted to work for them. An hour later, they called apologizing, because they'd made a mistake and offered the job to the wrong person. FML

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intensitive 11

Thursday 25 February 2010 19:52

How do you be in a position like that and not know how much your competitors are charging?

kikiface 1

Thursday 25 February 2010 19:54

what the hell do you do that $200/hour is an acceptable pay rate? I need to get into that field

Comments

TooNz_fml 0

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:04

You do know that means many raises right?

Microserf 0

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:08

HA! You must be the worst network engineer ever to only charge $12/hr

spez86 0

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:11

see you don't know yr line of work very well obviuosly YDI I'm lookin to be a GC pretty soon and it's high dollar work it's not an hourly wage either it's a bid or estimate of a full packaged contract dum ass lol

marlon001 0

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:24

that must suck really bad!!!

Comatose27 0

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:28

you're complaining that you're getting paid..? seriously... and not knowing how much you COULD charge is even more stupid... this isnt an FML... this is a free dis-athon.

Anteezy 7

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:28

That is terrible, you don't even know the rates of the field you are in. And a lot of companies would think that seeing as you don't even know what to charge you are probably not the best contractor.

dacho 7

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:32

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Endorpheus 0

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:35

So, you are offered a job and now you complain about it? How is this a FML? Who cares how much the guy before you made. At least you have a job now.

jimbonj 0

Thursday 25 February 2010 21:43

Sorry, anyone asking $12/hr to be a network engineer is either clueless or thinks network engineering is getting two laptops onto a Linksys WRT54G router inside of someone's house. Real network engineering involves real networking equipment and usually real certifications and experience and myself or anyone I know wouldn't take a permanent job that paid less than $25/hr or a consultant gig for less than $75/hr.