Ahhahahaha apparently I signed my name on a contract that more or less says I will work 6 months for free, yay.
Showed that shit to a couple of lawyer types and they all pretty much agree that it's an unreasonable request.
If they try to sue us they can pretty much forget about ever doing business in this town again :rotate:
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Weird, so a meeting about joining the sort-of-sales team popped up in my calender a couple of days ago. Apparently it's now going to be a formal interview. With people that I kind of know. How odd.
Fortunately I had my suit dry cleaned a while back*. Now I need to have a think about why I want to spend some time doing less technical work that isn't "I am deeply worried that somebody is going to spot I'm crap at technical things and then it'll all be over"
*Because I smashed a full glass of wine onto a table during a fancy dinner and purpled myself
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new VP
dunno what to make of her yet
very metrics driven, which is good
but there were a couple things that bugged me in our meeting
mainly her glossing over several aspects of my job going "oh, but that only takes like a couple minutes or hours"
$5k raise effective immediately, possibly another 5 in 6 months.
Talked about future plans for our new manufacturing facility and offices, getting an office as large as our conference room along with a junior IT person working under me, etc, eta of ~2 years.
Any raise is a good raise, and an almost guaranteed 5k every 6 months isn't bad either
But I had hoped with the progress I've made in just the past year on a variety of money-saving projects I could have had some of that realized in a bigger pay bump.
able to see us, guess our age and gender and customize their marketing messages with frightening accuracy
pssh our robots already do that. 'Professor' my ass ... wait we HAVE a robot at Carnegie. Goddammit, man!
On a more serious tangent, I don't know how much those cost (as far as I can tell they're just shop dummies that someone's stuck some motors in, so not much), but having an actual robot there would be a ridiculously over the top investment.
My boss has a bee in his bonnet about how impractical it is to use humanoids to substitute for low-paid jobs. He's aiming to replace highly paid assholes.
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So I got my raise...it was relatively minimal though because I'm now at the max I can make at my current position.
This really sucks because I live in a smaller town and people don't leave very often so I could be there for 2 years without another opportunity opening up.
We got a new head of HR today.
Dude showed up in full suit and tie outfit both days he's been here.
It's like, our company is not that formal. Most of my wardrobe is just stuff I'd wear on a weekend. President also banned ties because they have no use beyond being pretentious.
Shape up guy.
effectively $10k in six months (assuming they go through with it) seems pretty good, guess you'll have to wait and see. congrats though dan
I got one back in April as well, but the way my boss tried to phrase it when I politely mentioned I would have liked to have seen more
"Yeah but we gave you one in April for 5k plus this one is 10k"
"Yeah, but I don't actually realize that full 10k in a given year "
"Yeah..."
And from a business/payroll managerial view I get it, because we saw the same issue with other departments, where one BIG raise made them kind of hit the ceiling for the position they were in and there wasn't really any room to give a raise on a regular basis, so he wants to avoid that with me
BUT
Again, considering what my predecessor made when he left the company (I've been in the position about as long as he had been) my boss flat out admitted that we were getting more value out of my work than we had from his
So...I'm more valuable...but...getting paid less?
Hell, the raise covers my new car payments rather easily, so there's that.
I brought in two dozen Chocolate Kahlua Cupcakes because it is the awesome professor's birthday. They are almost all gone and one student said it was better than the Georgetown Cupcake she had the other day.
Erin The RedThe Name's Erin! Woman, Podcaster, Dungeon Master, IT nerd, Parent, Trans. AMABaton Rouge, LARegistered Userregular
I have had a lot of coffee this morning. Drinking some of the tonx stuff from Ethiopia that I refrigerated from last night.
And listening to this song apparently on repeat? I don't know why.
Someone listen to this and tell me if the audio is committing fuckery with your ears?
Parts of it sound like the singing guy is floating around me in a circle.
Or am I just losing my mind?
I'd like to state for the record that I want to email every person who is flying to Roanoke, VA and tell them it's a bad idea.
Seriously, people, don't go to the Vanishing Place.
As an aside, I have the worst sinus headache. I appreciate that the cold front came in and dropped the temperature by twenty degrees, but I'm seriously considering going home early and kicking back with Auntie Histamine.
I'm not contagious or anything, but I deffo feel like a can of hammered shit right now.
I'm also pretty sure that I look and sound like it too.
@Abracadaniel, here's some perspective. You just got a raise, which is more money than I'll be claiming as income for this year. I'm not trying to trivialize anything, but maybe you should be pleased you got a combined raise which is more than the total income for some folks.
I, for one, am stoked for you. That's a huge raise to your annual salary, and I know if I was suddenly making ~$800 more a month, I'd be sitting pretty.
Also, Dan, they're getting more value out of you than your predecessor precisely because they're not paying as much for it. That's how value works.
Congrats on the raise, man. That's a good chunk at any one time, and you've got a matching chunk to look forward to. It's a shame you didn't get a bigger bit of the costs you've saved, but I don't think any place would realistically be expected to dole out a large bit of their surprise savings.
(I still don't get why you're there still, like everyone else :P )
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edited October 2013
I took a sick day today.
Which is something special for me because it is the first sick day I have taken in 19 months of employment out of college.
But I woke up yesterday feeling super tired, my brain felt on fire, my throat sore, my nose congested and just yeah...
Also a whole bunch of shit went down at work, so I get the added bonus of avoiding the fallout for a day.
So I am going to do some light cleaning around the apartment, drink water, eat soup and watch Netflix.
And I'm currently typing in an e-mail address with 'CBT' in the address. Since the customer's initials are substantially different, I'm going to assume the reference is 'cock-and-ball-torture.'
Radio morning shows have the host(s), and the producer. The producer is the guy who pushes buttons and makes the noises. The host is the guy talking. A while back, the morning producer for our "alt rock" station got promoted, and there's been a vacancy. This Thursday and Friday, the host's of the show are going to Vegas for a thing.
I was drafted to fill in as the producer, and run the live portion of the show, with the host's calling in. Yesterday I went in for a two hour crash course, it's not really that complicated. Everyone who came in and talked to us said: "Don't worry, everyone fucks up the first time. Hell, I still mess this up. Have you heard <Host> try to produce the show? It's hilarious, never gets it right." So, I get the vibe that not much is expected. I plan on fuckin' nailing it. Mostly because I want to do well, but also because... If everyone else has messed it up, I want to be the guy who doesn't.
So! What's the point here?
Well! With the vacancy of the morning producer, and the fact that I've been working with these guys for a few months now and we all get along fairly well, I was toying with the idea of trying to talk my way into the job.
After the training, the supervisor I was working with and I were sitting in his office just talking a little and exchanging phone numbers in case of emergency. I decided to just bring it up, the worst he could say is I'd have to do an interview.
"Hey, so I was thinking. The morning producer is missing, you're training me to do it, why don't I just... Become the morning producer?"
"It's funny, Anon, I was just talking with the guys about that. I said, 'you know, Anon is just going to be your new producer.' They laughed and said, 'Yeah, that'd be alright.' So, we've been talking about just that."
"Well, that's cool... What does that mean?"
"It means that we'll go through this, and if it all works out... On Monday we can sit down and talk."
"Alright, man. I'll see you when you come in on Thursday!"
So, tomorrow and Friday are Big Day's.
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edited October 2013
I started idly applying for jobs that show up on my LinkedIn feed a few months ago. I'm noticing that Im actually getting "Thanks, but no thanks" rejection emails more often than not hearing anything back at all.
When did this become a thing? It's pretty cool, imo. I find it much preferable to waiting and hoping.
Can anyone recommend a particular line of technical books that would be good for teaching things from scratch? For instance, I'd like to learn Linux, Unix, and SQL, and I have a Safari Books account at my disposal. Any recommendations?
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Ugh. I'm disliking the new marketing woman more and more.
Our guest key to the men's washroom is missing. So she spent the time to come up a cutesy little graphic, including shitty clip art and emailed it out to the office. And then she printed it up and hung it up in the kitchen.
I know there's probably no magic number to this, but typically how many reprimands and mistakes are you granted as a new hire before your superiors decide "yeah, this isn't going to work" and boot you out the door?
So far in the three plus weeks I've been at this police department, I've been reprimanded twice. Nothing major, mistakes I can easily ensure not to repeat, but enough to get me really frustrated as a perfectionist trying to make a good early impression.
It also doesn't help that I feel that my boss is frustrated with me, though I have observed she maintains the same tone with me that she does with everyone else. It's clear she doesn't like my occasional prodding when I inquire about the (still pending) access to my other duties. As it stands, I'm barely doing any work from all save for the occasional phone call.
In other words, not having anything to do has me on edge. I won't know if I can make this job work until I get full access to all of my duties.
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Then that key needs to mysteriously vanish without a trace.
Showed that shit to a couple of lawyer types and they all pretty much agree that it's an unreasonable request.
If they try to sue us they can pretty much forget about ever doing business in this town again :rotate:
Fortunately I had my suit dry cleaned a while back*. Now I need to have a think about why I want to spend some time doing less technical work that isn't "I am deeply worried that somebody is going to spot I'm crap at technical things and then it'll all be over"
dunno what to make of her yet
very metrics driven, which is good
but there were a couple things that bugged me in our meeting
mainly her glossing over several aspects of my job going "oh, but that only takes like a couple minutes or hours"
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$5k raise effective immediately, possibly another 5 in 6 months.
Talked about future plans for our new manufacturing facility and offices, getting an office as large as our conference room along with a junior IT person working under me, etc, eta of ~2 years.
Any raise is a good raise, and an almost guaranteed 5k every 6 months isn't bad either
But I had hoped with the progress I've made in just the past year on a variety of money-saving projects I could have had some of that realized in a bigger pay bump.
Maybe I'm just greedy.
pssh our robots already do that. 'Professor' my ass ... wait we HAVE a robot at Carnegie. Goddammit, man!
On a more serious tangent, I don't know how much those cost (as far as I can tell they're just shop dummies that someone's stuck some motors in, so not much), but having an actual robot there would be a ridiculously over the top investment.
My boss has a bee in his bonnet about how impractical it is to use humanoids to substitute for low-paid jobs. He's aiming to replace highly paid assholes.
This really sucks because I live in a smaller town and people don't leave very often so I could be there for 2 years without another opportunity opening up.
Dude showed up in full suit and tie outfit both days he's been here.
It's like, our company is not that formal. Most of my wardrobe is just stuff I'd wear on a weekend. President also banned ties because they have no use beyond being pretentious.
Shape up guy.
I got one back in April as well, but the way my boss tried to phrase it when I politely mentioned I would have liked to have seen more
"Yeah but we gave you one in April for 5k plus this one is 10k"
"Yeah, but I don't actually realize that full 10k in a given year
"Yeah..."
And from a business/payroll managerial view I get it, because we saw the same issue with other departments, where one BIG raise made them kind of hit the ceiling for the position they were in and there wasn't really any room to give a raise on a regular basis, so he wants to avoid that with me
BUT
Again, considering what my predecessor made when he left the company (I've been in the position about as long as he had been) my boss flat out admitted that we were getting more value out of my work than we had from his
So...I'm more valuable...but...getting paid less?
Hell, the raise covers my new car payments rather easily, so there's that.
Looks like I have a new favorite grad student.
They don't suck. They aren't the best cupcakes in the area, but they do have some good ones.
Another fire drill.
And listening to this song apparently on repeat? I don't know why.
Someone listen to this and tell me if the audio is committing fuckery with your ears?
Parts of it sound like the singing guy is floating around me in a circle.
Or am I just losing my mind?
like
looking at job ads, i basically just have to give up once i see the words "experience" or "at least"
Seriously, people, don't go to the Vanishing Place.
As an aside, I have the worst sinus headache. I appreciate that the cold front came in and dropped the temperature by twenty degrees, but I'm seriously considering going home early and kicking back with Auntie Histamine.
I'm not contagious or anything, but I deffo feel like a can of hammered shit right now.
I'm also pretty sure that I look and sound like it too.
I, for one, am stoked for you. That's a huge raise to your annual salary, and I know if I was suddenly making ~$800 more a month, I'd be sitting pretty.
I'd make that shit rain.
Dollah.
Dollah.
Bill.
Ya'll.
Then the next time you see Idiot Son, start flinging copper at him.
Fuck rain, make it HAIL.
Pennies?
...
Hardware store.
Cinder block.
At least then you have plausible deniability
Scream something about tasting the rainbow as you shove candy down his esophagus.
Just apply. The worst they can do is ignore you. The qualifications section of job reqs are often bloated wishlists.
Entry level, 19 years experience required, shits gold eggs every half hour, Ph.D. in astrophysics, must be a unicorn
did you take that from my college's cs dept. internship emailing list
cuz yeah
Congrats on the raise, man. That's a good chunk at any one time, and you've got a matching chunk to look forward to. It's a shame you didn't get a bigger bit of the costs you've saved, but I don't think any place would realistically be expected to dole out a large bit of their surprise savings.
(I still don't get why you're there still, like everyone else :P )
Which is something special for me because it is the first sick day I have taken in 19 months of employment out of college.
But I woke up yesterday feeling super tired, my brain felt on fire, my throat sore, my nose congested and just yeah...
Also a whole bunch of shit went down at work, so I get the added bonus of avoiding the fallout for a day.
So I am going to do some light cleaning around the apartment, drink water, eat soup and watch Netflix.
Oh it's no. :-(
And I'm currently typing in an e-mail address with 'CBT' in the address. Since the customer's initials are substantially different, I'm going to assume the reference is 'cock-and-ball-torture.'
I truly wish my mind was a less filthy wasteland.
Radio morning shows have the host(s), and the producer. The producer is the guy who pushes buttons and makes the noises. The host is the guy talking. A while back, the morning producer for our "alt rock" station got promoted, and there's been a vacancy. This Thursday and Friday, the host's of the show are going to Vegas for a thing.
I was drafted to fill in as the producer, and run the live portion of the show, with the host's calling in. Yesterday I went in for a two hour crash course, it's not really that complicated. Everyone who came in and talked to us said: "Don't worry, everyone fucks up the first time. Hell, I still mess this up. Have you heard <Host> try to produce the show? It's hilarious, never gets it right." So, I get the vibe that not much is expected. I plan on fuckin' nailing it. Mostly because I want to do well, but also because... If everyone else has messed it up, I want to be the guy who doesn't.
So! What's the point here?
Well! With the vacancy of the morning producer, and the fact that I've been working with these guys for a few months now and we all get along fairly well, I was toying with the idea of trying to talk my way into the job.
After the training, the supervisor I was working with and I were sitting in his office just talking a little and exchanging phone numbers in case of emergency. I decided to just bring it up, the worst he could say is I'd have to do an interview.
"Hey, so I was thinking. The morning producer is missing, you're training me to do it, why don't I just... Become the morning producer?"
"It's funny, Anon, I was just talking with the guys about that. I said, 'you know, Anon is just going to be your new producer.' They laughed and said, 'Yeah, that'd be alright.' So, we've been talking about just that."
"Well, that's cool... What does that mean?"
"It means that we'll go through this, and if it all works out... On Monday we can sit down and talk."
"Alright, man. I'll see you when you come in on Thursday!"
So, tomorrow and Friday are Big Day's.
When did this become a thing? It's pretty cool, imo. I find it much preferable to waiting and hoping.
Our guest key to the men's washroom is missing. So she spent the time to come up a cutesy little graphic, including shitty clip art and emailed it out to the office. And then she printed it up and hung it up in the kitchen.
Our company has 10 employees.
It is pretty spectacular.
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So far in the three plus weeks I've been at this police department, I've been reprimanded twice. Nothing major, mistakes I can easily ensure not to repeat, but enough to get me really frustrated as a perfectionist trying to make a good early impression.
It also doesn't help that I feel that my boss is frustrated with me, though I have observed she maintains the same tone with me that she does with everyone else. It's clear she doesn't like my occasional prodding when I inquire about the (still pending) access to my other duties. As it stands, I'm barely doing any work from all save for the occasional phone call.
In other words, not having anything to do has me on edge. I won't know if I can make this job work until I get full access to all of my duties.
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