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Hey guys.
I'm still waiting on a long-ass government background investigation to finish before I embark on my career path.
In the mean time I'm getting physically threatened and mocked by 8th graders with issues.
How're your jobs going?
I'm still waiting on a long-ass government background investigation to finish before I embark on my career path.
In the mean time I'm getting physically threatened and mocked by 8th graders with issues.
How're your jobs going?
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Fingers crossed.
Steam Me
I guess someone called him out on not being 'managerial', which apparently according to them means "We don't see you out and about walking the floor!"
And it's like... Dude, that guy is working a LOT. He's always working on something for work. You want him to just 'seem' busy instead of shit actually getting done?
It's the manager's job to make sure the workers are doing the job. It is not the manager's job to do the job.
I've known a couple managers who got fired for not seeing that difference.
It was called First Invasion: The War of 1812. Any time you see regular US infantry I am in the shot.
Party time!
Part time for a little while then pure self employed
it is
fucking terrifying
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Egads but I'm excited.
It's a 10-part series! I ain't watching all that just to see you. I guess I gotta get some learning in too...
He does make sure we're doing the job, though. All the stuff he's been doing is managerial stuff, i.e. working on cost stuff, doing the orders, etc. He doesn't deliver the mail, or do the hospitality work, or do the reprographics stuff unless the personally that normally does it isn't here - and even then, that stuff gets delegated to the other folks before he has to do it.
Their complaint literally seems to be "We don't see you walking around the site, and this means you're not being managerial."
I've brought a couple of things that would improve IT security and management to his attention but he wants to consult with the consultant they were using before first and who knows when he'll have time for that.
someone please bookmark this post for when i'm swamped with shit in a few weeks/months
Like, Monday he and I dragged a bunch of tables and chairs up a flight of stairs in hot weather so they could have a bbq picnic outside! And then we had to carry them back down afterward! I worked through my lunch that day because they were so adamant about getting it done!
but it's still less mentally exhausting than the 7.30am-10.30pm i've been pulling for the previous two weeks.
also I may or may not have applied for a new job just to see if they'll interview me.
I expect it to be so underpaid that even I would have to turn it down, but worth finding out.
While deciding our plans for ongoing course offerings is collaborative within the technology training team, with priorities suggested by the Director, I've been given a fairly free hand on how I schedule and deliver training to new users
Which means I can and have decided that our first cybersecurity awareness course is mandatory for everyone who joins, and the second one is strongly suggested
With 30 summer students and staff starting this week and next, and more to come, this will do wonders for my goal of hitting 150 people through the course by the end of the year
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
If your process becomes standard, don't you risk having your department labor budget slashed?
Better than this
Not as good as it ought to be
Yeah, as a former manager now, you have to have a thick skin while simultaneously ensuring the right people understand your productivity. From an emotional health standpoint, management is fucking tough.
a) My process probably won't become standard, but if it did
b) It would save more customers, because we're not stupidly working orders that are 6 months old and are just going to get cancelled anyway. Instead we're working new orders and every customer doesn't get missed multiple times anymore. More non-canceled customers means more work for us to do. My company's software has almost zero automation, so they're always going to need human robots to do it instead. They've already said they aren't going to spend money upgrading the software.
If anything, proving that we can work circles around the cheapy outsourced agents will maybe prove we're worth the salary we're paid, and we won't get slashed quite as badly when the contract expires.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Now I'm replacing a CPA who has been in this position for five years while I've been with the university for six months. Hooray whiskey.
Sounds kind of like they don't know the difference between a supervisor and a manager.
Using those clamp-type juicers is pretty good stress relief, I gotta say.
This seems fitting
Last night I had dinner with a recruiter from a place that would be amazing to put in some time at because they're going to change the world. Didn't get the job that I had been interviewing for but they really like me and are going to be expanding the team with an eye towards my skill set in the next year or so.
The Long Con
Oh, and I got a job offer today from a place that is neither of the aforementioned places. Now to try and bend and shape the offer to be what I want it to be.
The Fools
Also nice TF combo. Looks sweet.
"My grandma was really healthy and happy and then was really sick and sad while she was here, one star."
Guess you can't divulge which firm, but in what role?
Today I get a sales manager who has no idea what a partner ID (or a corporate ID, the other kind of identifier we use) is. When I explained I can't answer any questions without some kind of identifier, he starts getting belligerent, tells me he's called in lots of times without ever having given that information, and asks for my supervisor. Now for all I know this guy really is legit and the vendor call centers probably don't put as much stock in CPNI as I do. But man, when to follow the social engineering playbook perfectly. I got him to the supervisor line, but didn't expect he got very far with them, either.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I'm going with 80+% social engineering attack at that point.
Did you give everyone else a heads up it was going on?
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I'm waiting for my wife to get back from Thailand with her mother (during which they will discuss our transition out east in great detail), before I announce my resignation.
Currently I'm working to get two guys more invested in being leaders, so there's some more capable foremen when I leave.
Yesterday the owner hands out checks and tells me I'm getting a 10% raise because he finally ran the numbers and noticed we're way down on resource costs because of deals I've woven and efficiency I've created. There's also the entire $15/hr position we eliminated by simply training two guys better.
I mean, it's really cool to finally be recognized... And I'm really happy about the extra money for the next few months...
But it fundamentally changes nothing. I'd much rather my office be on the high sea.
Everyone in my office, yeah. I can't say if there are other offices that do our work that are online today.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Have I told you how psyched I am that you're going to be a sea captain? Because I'm amazingly psyched that you're going to be a sea captain. Captain.
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Island. Being on fire.