I'm on a strict diet of 40 hours a week because for some ungodly reason, to be on salary at my company, you need to be a manager (or at least tongue the ass of the owner)

So, two weeks ago I asked for salary because I knew of a few projects that would require massive overtime, late night and weekend work. They declined, gave me a stellar review stating "We don't know what we would do without you" and then proceeded to tell me that they couldn't afford to give me a raise for the 3rd year in a row and that I'm the highest paid hourly employee and I even make more than some of the controllers... I make what most entry-level sysadms make and I've been doing this since 1999. Ask me why I stay here, I won't have an answer.

So, last week, we moved all our websites from one provider to another and changed all the DNS records over to the new provider.
We moved the first 3 sites over on Thursday with no problem and told the provider we'd move the last 2 over on Friday at the end of the day (4pm). They said "ok" and right around 4pm, we switched the sites... and got the following error upon seeing it:

The website is not active, please call support

Now, we would have just swapped it back to the old provider, but the sites were due to expire on Monday September 1st... so we'd be without a website.

Now, to preface this particular Friday... I had about 3.5 hours of overtime built up from some late night projects prepping the back ends of the site and changing over all the images to the new servers. So I came in around noon and was scheduled to leave around 5pm so not to go into overtime (I was written up a week before for 5 minutes of overtime)

So, I call support and ask them to activate the site.

How many guys do YOU expect to have on the support line the Friday of a long weekend? well, if you guess one, you win a cookie.

And if you also guessed that Mr. Ipickedtheshortstraw was in ANY power to activate anything beyond his power button on his monitor, I'd have to ask for the cookie back.

He puts me on hold, calls the L2 support, who graciously ignores his call. He calls our account manager, who was probably already drunk on a boat and dropping his buzzing cellphone into the drink. And then gets back to us and says "I have a few more numbers to call, try me back in 20 minutes.

So, I hang up and start prepping to move the sites back to the old sites because ONE day without a site (Monday-Tuesday) is better than a whole weekend without any site.

Little did I notice, it was about 4:49pm at that point.
So, I call the guy back after I prep for the rebuild. It's now about 5:01pm... and I'm just about into OT... well, guess whose phones automatically turn off at 5pm? Our new service provider.

Now my boss is sitting at the door asking me to leave so I don't go into overtime.

So... um... I explain the situation and he tells me I have to go regardless.

And so, without flipping the sites back... I shut down my laptop and go home. I also make sure to drive into the mountains of New Hampshire for the weekend without charging my Blackberry, only to return on Tuesday to find that the sites are still fucked because my boss tried to fix it himself.
Luckily, the new sites are ready, so we just launch with them.

I still haven't been offered salary.

- down, not across