[Sylvanfan]

The first drafting company I worked for in Prince George was brutally cheap. Run by some born again Christian German guy. But I think his wife was the real issue there. Granted that 15 years ago computer technology wasn't that great, but having a 386 computer with a 14 inch monitor trying to do detail drafting made me blind. In those days AutoCAD often had a tablet and puck, and mine was set up like a phone key board were the pick button was 0 and that gave me carpel tunnel. Any time I asked about upgrading that machine, even if it meant me getting the second oldest one in the office, I heard about how that computer cost more than the other machines when they bought it.....Yeah as technology improves the price goes down. It wasn't until 1999 when I got a Pentium after 4 other staff had quit, a good 4 plus years after they had been out.

But the worst was the pay sucked, the environment sucked, with a drafting office of 12 employees when the printer got low on toner they told us to take it out and shake the cartridge and put it back in and than it would print.

I remember the satisfaction the day I quit as after he offered me a $7 an hour raise which would have been like a 40% pay raise and a dollar more than the place I was going to work for, I said no thanks. He than threw his hands up in the air and said why doesn't anyone want to work here anymore! I could barely keep a straight face.