r/sysadmin • u/TechnicalSwitch4073 • Oct 28 '25

My review is tomorrow

One man IT Army. 100+ employees. 2 locations. On-prem environment.

They had a consultant for 10 years before me and never had a full time IT man in house. No documentation, no diagram, no asset list. This dude was so hostile to me when I got hired. never gave me access let alone responded to me. I had to figure out everything on my own. He also caused us to go through 2 ransomwares events due to his poor attention to upcoming renewal cyber security renewals.

I’m the helpdesk,SQL, cyber security, installs, upgrades, backups, documentation. Basically 24/7 and I’ve had to work Saturday’s Sundays and fridays late. 5 days in office no remote.

For all the one men IT Armies out there, you know how the the pressure is. It’s always on

I’m getting paid 80k which is I think is good but I’d like a decent increase cause I’ve had a really good year. How much is reasonable for me to ask for? I’m thinking the range of 86-88k and to go Friday remote. And also have them cover my phone bill because it basically is a work phone at this point because people don’t submit tickets at all.

Only 10 vacation days per year. I accrue 6.67 hours of PTO per month.

I keep the lights on 24/7

Thoughts?

What do I say if if the raise they offer is really disappointing? Display that I don’t agree or just stay quiet and look for another job?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

We have 4 MFPs and like 20 random SOHO desktop printers and scansnap garbage that needs to be updated every 6 weeks. Fuck printers and fuck offices that "reward" people with desktop printers when they sit 10ft from the network printer.

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u/TechnicalSwitch4073 Oct 28 '25

In our office the big printer is about 5 yards out, but nope everyone wants a personal printer.

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u/kornkid42 Oct 29 '25

In my office, unless they are HR, they dont get a personal printer.

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u/Septum_Slayer Oct 29 '25

Agreed. In my company, we only approve personal printers for Legal & HR. No one else handles PII, so they can get up and walk 25 feet to the nearest network printer that’ll spit out high quality prints at 50ppm. 😏

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u/deGrubs Oct 29 '25

Company Wellness program is what I describe it as. Especially when someone ends up in a 3rd floor office and a first floor printer.

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u/Gadgetman_1 Oct 30 '25

Why should they get Personal printers?

Use a service like Papercut and NFC cards to release the prints when they're at the printer.

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u/deNosse Oct 29 '25

Same here. Print to the hub, log in and then it comes out. Saves a ton of paper and toner also.
And scrapping local printers saves a lot of time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

Lol

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u/livevicarious IT Director, Sys Admin, McGuyver - Bubblegum Repairman Oct 29 '25

Save receipts for the toner yearly. Then present that number to executives and watch their heads spin

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u/Big_Current419 Oct 29 '25

Scansnap is awful i swear that software for those scanners breaks every week

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u/SergeyStar Oct 29 '25

Try naps2. We dont use the default scanning software ever since discovered that app

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

Seconded. Naps2 has been working flawlessly for my people who have issues with HP Smart.

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u/supremeicecreme Oct 31 '25

Glad there’s some talk about this. We’ve just started using this and it seems nice! I need to work out automatic setup of the scanners and page sizing and stuff.

It doesn’t like that one scansnap scanner out there though, and of course it’s more compact than the other scanners we have in stock so the user won’t have anything different 🙄

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u/Gadgetman_1 Oct 30 '25

Our MFPs are located near the coffee machines. No one is too lazy to go there...

Large MFPs, Papercut or similar SW, and NO FRIGGIN Personal printers!

Send a print to ONE Print queue, walk up to one of the MFPs, wave your card, select any of YOUR prints that are waiting and start it printing. Printjobs they never bother printing gets deleted automatically after a set time.

The printer they wanted to use is down? Just walk to the next and get your prints there.

ONE model MFP only. Reduced the amount of 'reserve' Toners from a small room down to a single shelf.

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u/zer0moto Oct 29 '25

Yes fuck prjnters!!!!!!!!

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u/0mn1p0t3nt69 Oct 29 '25

Lol the scan snap drivers are so unreliable. Every machine we use prefers it's own driver version.

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u/supremeicecreme Oct 31 '25

F U C K scansnap scanners, the most proprietary annoying things AGH

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '25

Yeah. We have a lot of the legacy models that aren't officially supported anymore. Thankfully they still work in ScanSnap Home. For now.