Ok so feeling really depressed right now and I have no idea what to do. As you may know i'm far from the best IT Admin, but trying my best. I left 4 months ago a company that i liked the work, liked my clients (to some extent) But hated the owner aka my boss. He was a selfish dick and etc.
Made some interviews and found this company that raised my salary from 46k to 55k per year (yay canada), and gave me medical issurances. After a 2h interview all seemed well (too well i guess). So started this job (Alone in IT) in febuary and all went well, but starting in March stuff started to go less well. The people in this company are great, friendly having a blast working with them.
The issue is the management (Owner, semi owner and accounting) they are cheap. They wanted someone with initiative which I feel I have but each time i bring projects, it gets shot down because it costs money or too much money.
Exemple they want a way to share files with sales rep on the road that works well with ipad. Found them sync.com a good cheap solution, but it feels pricey because it cost 5$ per month per user.
Their architecture are 3 old servers (1 of them that is support is Out of life since 2015) and they don'T wanna change any of them because it's cheaper to renew the warranty (Ok i can buy that because the servers specs are OK, good CPU good ram etc).
PCs are an issue, they are all Windows 7 64bits 4GB of Ram with a 2010 Dual Core Processor, which makes the PC SLOW AS HELL. Everyone complains that PC are slows, but 'PC works we won'T change it'.
Most of all the offices has some dumb home 4-5 port switch (PC, Printer and Phone). (Cheaper then buying real switches and recabling to have independant ports).
Trying my best to fix those issues but with so much fighting back from the management hurts me so much, I don'T know who to talk about it, but i'm really annoyed right now.
Now i'm sure most of you would ask, "Why don't you leave?" Simple, my house is for sell, i have a new car to pay and my GF is pregnant so i need money and since my house is for sell, i need to have a job for a few months to be able to get financed for the new house.
Now my question is, Am i really stuck with a dumb company, or this is normal for most company to be cheap like that?
Thanks and sorry for the ranting, it helps my friday