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Rsmith84 writes "I'm the Senior Systems administrator for a small trade college. When I was hired on, it was strictly for L3 related tasks such as elderly server administration, traffic

fx trading resourcesfx brokers design and implementation, etc. They have no in-house programmers, no help desk software, and no budget to bargain one. I'm a temperate PHP and MySQL programmer on the side and am easily capable of writing discrete to meet their needs, but do not believe I should be A) asked to or mandatory to, as my job manner and employment terms are not based upon this skill set. I like a challenge, and since all of my goals outlined since my hire date have been met and exceeded, I have a lot of down time. So I wrote the application. It streamlines several critical processes, allows for a central repository of FAQ, and provides end users with access to sundry systems all in one place. I've kept a circumstantial time log of my work and feel I should be remunerated for the work before just handing over the code. The entire source was adult on subjective

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corporal equipment off company hours. My query is: what should I do? If they are willing to pony up me, I will gladly hand it over. However, it's been appear that, if I do the project, it is all but guaranteed that I will see no compensation. The form would streamline a lot of processes and take a lot of the burden off my team, freeing them up to handle what I deem to be more challenging items on their respective punch lists and a better use

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