folks the CEO of the company I work for and also my boss (who typically works out of a different office based in NYC) are in town for three days and boy howdy is it not fun to have someone literally follow you around all day asking why you do your job the way you do and getting their unsolicited opinion on how you could do it better when they don't even know how to do it.
Well, gonna start putting in more effort to find another job. Was going to do it slowly because I'm running the toastmaster club at the office, but the more I poke around the more apathetic I feel about my job and got is apathy a disgusting feeling. Just the amount of mismanagement that the holding company has done.
-We have ancient software, that often leads to systems not working and the people at the top feel the priority should always go to new and shinier client facing applications. Completely missing that those can't work if the production applications are up to snuff to allow people to generate the date needed to be able to display anything on the client applications.
-Hardly anyone got a raise last year, and this year no one. Excuse is that there isn't enough money and North America didn't perform well. Great way of telling people that the merit system for raises means fuck all because overall company performance can make working your ass off meaningless. Then through in the fact that they are doing a re-org, which is being used as a another excuse to not do raises. Finally, since several system don't work right because the people are the top don't seem to give a fuck about production, they've had to open OT, which means even less money for other things (did I mention one team got flack for data being behind because the app they needed wasn't working right and these aren't IT people).
-It's also incredibly frustrating to watch my basic need expenses go up, while my income stays stagnant. I know I'm in decent financial shape, but I'm not to a point where I feel comfortable. I have a chronic health issue and it's a bit stressing realizing my employer is fucking up in a way that might mean I'll have financial issues down the line. Also incredibly depressing to see multiple co-workers with kids, spouses or debts have to find a second job or multiple gigs to stay on top of their finances (this is why I say I'm in decent financial shape, haven't hit that point of bullshit yet, but these are people making 10 or more dollars an hour and I know the US being shit on this end isn't entirely on the holding company, though I'm sure they lobby for the crap that makes it so).
-I don't feel like waiting around to see if they realize they need to raise their wages because they can't get the good tempts that are willing to stick around anymore for several positions. People have to do a ton for this job and frankly, the holding company has made ti abundantly clear that the efforts aren't appreciated. Not to mentioned they keep outsourcing stuff to India because it's cheaper, but they kind of ignore how quality has gone down a ton and India doesn't really do the job right. They are more concerned with getting quantity, so a ton of the stuff that takes more than 10s, that they could do, gets dumped on us and adds more to our workload (also doesn't help that advertisers seem to be getting more incompetent, seriously, keep using those ad blockers, you really aren't missing out).
-As for the toastmaster, well that's struggling because of corporate policy. We have a club that lets people develop professionally, which would give them a pool of people to promote for higher tier jobs before having to go outside the company. Problem is people aren't the top really don't want to spend money on (right now the fee is 90 dollars a year if the employee attends enough meetings, otherwise the fee gets taken out of the employees paycheck). Oddly enough, they do seem to be willing to spend money on the clubs that don't develop people professionally and some of the stuff that these people do, takes them away from their tasks for sizable chunks of the day multiple times a month. All we're asking for in the toastmasters club is be able to do either 1-1.5 hours or 2-3 hours on the clock a month. Right now we have to meet during lunch and people have to take an extra half-hour out of their day on meeting days. That is actually killing our ability to get members because people could do stuff for one of the other clubs and get paid for it and some of them don't have that extra 30 minutes for the meetings because they have to get buy working another job. Plus, we have a few that take classes.
Not to mention that I'm really hating how I feel like my job is forcing me to neglect things I need to do. I'd like more time to cook healthy food. More time to get some much needed exercise in. More time to broaden my social network. Have less of my non-work time eaten up by commuting to work and it seems to get worse by the day.
Like I know it's not a great job and I wasn't planning on staying their long term; especially, now that I've seen how non-existent promotions are (I mean for fucks sake, we have two people in not great pay jobs, that only got those jobs because their predecessor died. These people can literal claim they got their current position because the last person that had it died. It's really fucked up now that I think about; especially, since these aren't great jobs to begin). It's just things would be so much less stressful and miserable if the people running the holding company, or at least the one's calling the shots, didn't have a perennial case of head up their asses syndrome.
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
I am currently the only supervisor at my store. My former lead supervisor took a produce position at another location, her replacement quit to sell insurance, and I haven't been given the lead shift because we don't have anyone we can promote internally to cover my closing shift and nobody wants to transfer to my store. I am literally the only person who can handle my job currently.
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I am currently the only supervisor at my store. My former lead supervisor took a produce position at another location, her replacement quit to sell insurance, and I haven't been given the lead shift because we don't have anyone we can promote internally to cover my closing shift and nobody wants to transfer to my store. I am literally the only person who can handle my job currently.
Time to demand a 100% payrise!
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I'm already at the top of the union contract payscale! I'm just trying to get off of nights!
so, i'm a law student who's getting right towards the end of their degree and while I've had cafe and bar jobs in the past which were some real goddam work, I just sent off my first resume to a barrister to try and get some assistant work and oh gosh i feel tense
this will (well may, the meeting is confirmed, but the job isn't) be my first proper law work and argh
I work in fraud for a company that serves many banks, and it finally happened. I've been waiting lo these many month, but I finally have a customer whos been buying large chunks of Eve Online currency and the system thinks its fraud. I also got to explain to a co-worker what eve online is.
Well, it probably is, but not in the way they think.
Like, part of a scheme for one sprawling alliance to infiltrate, subvert, and ultimately betray/destroy another from within, in a series of events which will be much more entertaining to read about on various news sites and forums that to actually participate in (especially when lag or "time dilation" is factored in), and leave many readers profoundly grateful that these people (for the most part) voluntarily confine themselves to EVE rather than spreading their playstyle to one's own game of choice.
(Alternatively, as suggested by a friend, it's just someone selling their car to buy a supercarrier.)
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I sold my 42mil SP carrier pilot to a G&T pilot at the end of the first great war for $300. He took the carrier out and immediately got wrecked.
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I don't know if my immune system is weakened from essentially living in quarantine, or this is some strain of roided-up cold, but I don't think I've ever had a cold so quickly start and crank up to 11. I am hoping it means it will be over with quickly too.
I live about 15 minutes from the Albanease Candy Factory so I get the gummies (and other candies) often. Once I grabbed a big 3 pound bag for a friend, they were a little to much in the sunlight and melted into a large...gummy lump, sort of a gummy loaf.
That day I learned the true best way to eat gummies is by cutting off a slice of many flavored gummy loaf
I work in fraud for a company that serves many banks, and it finally happened. I've been waiting lo these many month, but I finally have a customer whos been buying large chunks of Eve Online currency and the system thinks its fraud. I also got to explain to a co-worker what eve online is.
I assume the system is just intimidated by our space-themed spreadsheets.
Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
During lunch yesterday a junior high math teacher asked me if I could teach math.
Math teacher: Hey Jimmy, can you teach math? Me: *in front of the whole staff* Ahahaha NOPE! Math teacher: Oh, oh my... Me: I mean, I can probably pretend to teach math? Talk about integers. "Class there are real numbers & unreal numbers, lets only use unreal today." Math teacher: I mean, it sounds like you got it.
And that is how I am in second place to be the long-term sub for two weeks for a junior high math teacher.
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oh hey I'm literally eating some of these now.
Oh god this happens so much at my work
Not the ceo, but others
-We have ancient software, that often leads to systems not working and the people at the top feel the priority should always go to new and shinier client facing applications. Completely missing that those can't work if the production applications are up to snuff to allow people to generate the date needed to be able to display anything on the client applications.
-Hardly anyone got a raise last year, and this year no one. Excuse is that there isn't enough money and North America didn't perform well. Great way of telling people that the merit system for raises means fuck all because overall company performance can make working your ass off meaningless. Then through in the fact that they are doing a re-org, which is being used as a another excuse to not do raises. Finally, since several system don't work right because the people are the top don't seem to give a fuck about production, they've had to open OT, which means even less money for other things (did I mention one team got flack for data being behind because the app they needed wasn't working right and these aren't IT people).
-It's also incredibly frustrating to watch my basic need expenses go up, while my income stays stagnant. I know I'm in decent financial shape, but I'm not to a point where I feel comfortable. I have a chronic health issue and it's a bit stressing realizing my employer is fucking up in a way that might mean I'll have financial issues down the line. Also incredibly depressing to see multiple co-workers with kids, spouses or debts have to find a second job or multiple gigs to stay on top of their finances (this is why I say I'm in decent financial shape, haven't hit that point of bullshit yet, but these are people making 10 or more dollars an hour and I know the US being shit on this end isn't entirely on the holding company, though I'm sure they lobby for the crap that makes it so).
-I don't feel like waiting around to see if they realize they need to raise their wages because they can't get the good tempts that are willing to stick around anymore for several positions. People have to do a ton for this job and frankly, the holding company has made ti abundantly clear that the efforts aren't appreciated. Not to mentioned they keep outsourcing stuff to India because it's cheaper, but they kind of ignore how quality has gone down a ton and India doesn't really do the job right. They are more concerned with getting quantity, so a ton of the stuff that takes more than 10s, that they could do, gets dumped on us and adds more to our workload (also doesn't help that advertisers seem to be getting more incompetent, seriously, keep using those ad blockers, you really aren't missing out).
-As for the toastmaster, well that's struggling because of corporate policy. We have a club that lets people develop professionally, which would give them a pool of people to promote for higher tier jobs before having to go outside the company. Problem is people aren't the top really don't want to spend money on (right now the fee is 90 dollars a year if the employee attends enough meetings, otherwise the fee gets taken out of the employees paycheck). Oddly enough, they do seem to be willing to spend money on the clubs that don't develop people professionally and some of the stuff that these people do, takes them away from their tasks for sizable chunks of the day multiple times a month. All we're asking for in the toastmasters club is be able to do either 1-1.5 hours or 2-3 hours on the clock a month. Right now we have to meet during lunch and people have to take an extra half-hour out of their day on meeting days. That is actually killing our ability to get members because people could do stuff for one of the other clubs and get paid for it and some of them don't have that extra 30 minutes for the meetings because they have to get buy working another job. Plus, we have a few that take classes.
Not to mention that I'm really hating how I feel like my job is forcing me to neglect things I need to do. I'd like more time to cook healthy food. More time to get some much needed exercise in. More time to broaden my social network. Have less of my non-work time eaten up by commuting to work and it seems to get worse by the day.
Like I know it's not a great job and I wasn't planning on staying their long term; especially, now that I've seen how non-existent promotions are (I mean for fucks sake, we have two people in not great pay jobs, that only got those jobs because their predecessor died. These people can literal claim they got their current position because the last person that had it died. It's really fucked up now that I think about; especially, since these aren't great jobs to begin). It's just things would be so much less stressful and miserable if the people running the holding company, or at least the one's calling the shots, didn't have a perennial case of head up their asses syndrome.
battletag: Millin#1360
Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
Time to demand a 100% payrise!
this will (well may, the meeting is confirmed, but the job isn't) be my first proper law work and argh
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Like, part of a scheme for one sprawling alliance to infiltrate, subvert, and ultimately betray/destroy another from within, in a series of events which will be much more entertaining to read about on various news sites and forums that to actually participate in (especially when lag or "time dilation" is factored in), and leave many readers profoundly grateful that these people (for the most part) voluntarily confine themselves to EVE rather than spreading their playstyle to one's own game of choice.
(Alternatively, as suggested by a friend, it's just someone selling their car to buy a supercarrier.)
That day I learned the true best way to eat gummies is by cutting off a slice of many flavored gummy loaf
My sister sometimes puts Gummies in her special Rocky Road.
The last thing I want to do is chew ice cream.
I also always call them nerds which gets laughs
I mean, yes
But I need something funny to say
Just point them at that, and they'll learn an awful lot about the German sense of humor.
Ich habe Sauerkraut in meiner Lederhose
These are the german phrases I know.
I had to use google to get the spelling though, so I'm unclear on why sauerkraut and lederhosen are capitalised.
(Vee gates)
essentially, "What up!" (lit. "what do")
formal would be 'Wie gehts es ihnen?', more casual/intimate 'Wie gehts du?'
All nouns are capitalized in German.
I assume the system is just intimidated by our space-themed spreadsheets.
http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/73479/1/3_mining.value.by.region_bar.png
I always loved how german words just string adjectives together to make a whole new word.
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
I thought that one was banned by treaties.
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And that is how I am in second place to be the long-term sub for two weeks for a junior high math teacher.