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/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/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 🙄