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So, who's got a job for me?
Framling
FaceHeadGeebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
FaceHeadGeebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
So we moved out to Seattle a few months ago, and I got a job with a company called Olympic Data Services. They did statement printing, meaning a credit union or clinic would send us their client data in whatever the hell format they wanted, and we would print and mail their statements. I was in the programming department, and it was my job (and one other guy's job) to take their data and turn it into data we could print.
Anyway, three months and change after I started, they got bought out by another company, Kaye-Smith. They do printing as well, but they're structured differently in some ways that really don't bear explaining. This was around mid-December. The owners of ODS made it clear that, while they had had numerous offers to buy the company, they accepted this offer because it seemed like it would screw the employees over the least.
I'm sure you can already tell where this is going.
Two weeks ago, they moved me down from the ODS facility in Seattle to their facility in Renton. And then for two weeks, while everyone was too busy to show me the ropes, I had nothing to do. So I perused their SOP documentation and tried to piece together what I would actually be doing.
This morning, I get there around 9:00 (the usual time), and John, the department manager, pulls me into his office with Greg, the co-owner, and they basically tell me that they don't like my attitude (this was the first sign of this I had gotten from John, or anyone else there) and that they had somehow divined that because I wouldn't be doing any actual coding (this was the first time it was actually made clear to me that I would not be doing any coding), as I clearly wanted to do, I would not fit in with their team.
So I'm looking into whether I'm eligible for Unemployment, while I look for another goddamn job. Hopefully one with a company that won't get bought out by dicks three months after I start.
Anyone got any openings for a almost-freshly-graduated C++ programmer? Look at this shit, I'm networking here.
Anyway, three months and change after I started, they got bought out by another company, Kaye-Smith. They do printing as well, but they're structured differently in some ways that really don't bear explaining. This was around mid-December. The owners of ODS made it clear that, while they had had numerous offers to buy the company, they accepted this offer because it seemed like it would screw the employees over the least.
I'm sure you can already tell where this is going.
Two weeks ago, they moved me down from the ODS facility in Seattle to their facility in Renton. And then for two weeks, while everyone was too busy to show me the ropes, I had nothing to do. So I perused their SOP documentation and tried to piece together what I would actually be doing.
This morning, I get there around 9:00 (the usual time), and John, the department manager, pulls me into his office with Greg, the co-owner, and they basically tell me that they don't like my attitude (this was the first sign of this I had gotten from John, or anyone else there) and that they had somehow divined that because I wouldn't be doing any actual coding (this was the first time it was actually made clear to me that I would not be doing any coding), as I clearly wanted to do, I would not fit in with their team.
So I'm looking into whether I'm eligible for Unemployment, while I look for another goddamn job. Hopefully one with a company that won't get bought out by dicks three months after I start.
Anyone got any openings for a almost-freshly-graduated C++ programmer? Look at this shit, I'm networking here.
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I reckon' all you need is a mouth, mm-hmm.
The "don't like my attitude" thing might be so that they can try to claim that they fired you for cause. Watch your back.
Apparently not. I'm out on my ass, effective 9:30 this morning.
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Yea, you should be eligible for unemployment. Look into it. It's not all that much, but it's better than jack shit.
As for coding..hmm...
Don't let them fuck you, fram. That's Jordyn's job.
That's bullshit. Damn.
I'm in Alabama, so I got nothing for you unless you want to move thousands of miles.
Okay, before you do anything else, did you sign anything when you started with them? There's frequently a time frame for being with them after which they have to provide cause. If they seriously just made up the "fram's got bad attitude" thing on the spot, then they may be crossing a legal line there.
Did you sign anything?
Fuck, my friend threatened to kick his boss' head in and he got unemployment after three tries at it because both of them were "mean" to each other.
My advice to you is treat unemployment as a job. Spend at least as much time looking for employment and hitting the streets as you would at a job. Cold call and send out resumes too. Whoever says that doesn't work is full of shit, it's how I landed my job here. Sure I hate it, but it's cash and benefits, and I play with fire.
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(there was a link here,....check Hunter's post for it.)
(I'm bbcode useless, sorry)
It's a listing of seattle jobs from a site called www.dice.com It's all IT related stuff and I just ran a search of your area.
Good luck.
edit: and I raped the H-scroll. shit.
Edit 2: thanks, hunter.
My H-scroll.
All their stuff explicitly stated that employment remained at-will, no matter what.
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COPY ME YOU SHIT
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Humble apologies.
Now I have two people that I need to mail sandwiches to.
oh man, if that wasn't his name, calling someone 'ziplock' would be a pretty good insult.
Except maybe you'd have to change it to 'zipfuck' or 'zipcock'.
by the way, it's
<url=www.whatever.furry.pr0n.u.leik.whatever>FURRY Pr0nz</url>
use [ ] instead of < > though
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fuck.
Starbucks has like, the best group health insurance plan in the entire universe.
You could work there part time for a couple months and totally get everything taken care of, from new glasses to dental work to a sex change operation.
Oh hunter, it is so easy to break BBCode.
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How about rent?
Does Starbucks health insurance cover rent?
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yeah, those aren't covered
And apparently so easy to break the H-scroll thus raping people's minds.
Either way..check the damned link.
So, I guess I'll be paying for you and Jordyn to eat now that you're an unemployed hippy.
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I think rent was listed in their roster of exclusions.
Man, did you see that BBCode shit? Look at those coding skills! You telling me you wouldn't snatch that shit up in a second?
The thing that pisses me off the most is that apparently they just bought a couple of programmers and then decided they didn't want any programmers after all.
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Welcome to corporate America.
It fucking sucks. Especially after a move. My company went through a layoff right after I bought my house and my program was up on the block. I was scared shitless.
There's jobs out there though. There's at least pay the rent and eat food jobs you could walk into easily.
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