r/firealarms

I was about 30 minutes into an inspection of an apartment building (the worst kind) when I entered a unit and got smacked in the face with a terrible smell. As I walked in, I saw a very very dead person. It was pretty gnarly, to say the least, as it had been there for at least a week. According to the neighbour, they had noticed the smell for 2 or 3 days prior to my lovely discovery. Has anyone else had this experience?

For context I'm a new CFAA tech but very experienced in low voltage. Currently two years in the fire industry and in Ontario.

I'm currently working for my second fire alarm company and I was happy with them until recently. They seemingly are pretty happy with me as well as they asked me to get my factory training to program their Notifier panels. They promised a raise and some other perks for doing so, but when it came time to make good after I completed the training I got pushed off and delayed. I was told I needed to prove I was competent in the programming but was provided with no metric for that competency. I was also told I'd get brought out with the senior programmers to shadow their work but ended up just getting sent out solo and programming with the training I got from the factory certification.

For the past few months I was getting excuses as to why I haven't been given anything yet until recently where I got given a few dollars extra per hour. Currently I'm making $32 per hour but the market in the area appears to have programmers making $40-50. I understand that experience definitely plays a factor, but I was asking for something mid-high 30's for the raise given all the added responsibilities I was given. I'm not really someone who wants to hop around companies, but given how I'm getting the run around I feel like it may be time to start looking again, just looking for some 2 cents from others in the field?