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So all the "totally not there to spy on the employees for realsies we wuv you UwU" video cameras are going up all over the shop over the next few weeks.
I'm increasingly over this place. I wish I could find time to type up a fuckin resume.
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I think I just had the most awkward/worst work-related lunch I've ever been part of.
To start, it's another going away lunch, which I already hate. The person in question is one of our longest serving employees, who has been involved with the university since she graduated from here. We had it at an upscale Italian restaurant in town, which is quite a ways from the office so I decided to WFH because it was so close to my place and it wasn't worth driving back and forth multiple times.
When I arrived, I was the first into the "overflow" tables. No big deal, I thought. I picked up a seat out of the way of where the servers would be walking, where I could lean over and be part of the conversation.
The next person to show up was a project manager that I've barely interacted with in years. Early on he would constantly be going to me for answers and guidance, which was fine except he wanted me to make decisions. We haven't talked much since my team lead stepped in and freed me from his multiple hour meetings each week.
Next couple of people were good coworkers - which is fine, but I could barely hear them talk.
then came the director. The person both me and the person leaving have in our direct chain of command.. and the one who is stonewalling us on actually getting new people, raising pay, etc. I am cordial and nice, but don't have a ton to talk about because while going away parties are good times to complain, I'm not going to complain to him.
The other director then joined us - a good, eager person who gets in over his head and butts heads constantly with our director.
Finally, our lead developer joined, who despite being the closest friend to the person leaving, also wasn't sent an invite for some strange reason? Very weird.
So.. yeah. 2 hour lunch, most of it spent just being silent and meditating across from a project manager that I'm neutral on, listening to two directors talk about how I keep stirring up trouble and all the grand plans for the future. The servers were waiting to take our order until "Everyone arrived," but I put a stop to that after 45 mins. After about an hour and 20 mins I finally gave up and started checking my phone.
It makes me wonder harder about future prospects. Even if I get everything I wanted... can I still tolerate to work with a middle manager who just puts up roadblocks?
(The answer is no, but god I'm torn on helping the university. And admittedly a bunch of fear and imposter syndrome about how I'd take to a job that actually requires me to do all the paperwork and metrics that I suspect a job really needs.)
He/Him | "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." - Dr. Johnetta Cole, 7/22/2024
I understand the impulse to help, but you are not actually capable of significantly affecting the course of the university you're working at no matter how much you would like to assist. The forces that determine whether or not a university remains above water are many and varied and a specific employee who does database shit is maybe twenty five thousandth on the list. And if you put in a truly herculean effort and somehow do manage to make a significant impact you will be rewarded with nothing at all.
Just apply to literally any job posting that seems like something you'd find interesting. You don't really need cover letters anymore, you barely need a resume. Say what you will about various economic shit going down, people are still desperate to hire.
Edit: And I know that it often feels like job hunting will be too much of a thing to do while you're also dealing with just work and life and all that but I've gotten like 5-6 bites from applications that took a combined total of 45 minutes. Hell I had people see that I was looking and then call me and progress to second interview already.
You should send this to fuckyouiquit on Twitter. That is.
Honestly I'm laughing. That company just said, "Starbucks is unionizing? Hold my beer."
This is a good year.
The standard they do is a flat 25c at every step. That's how fucked this all is. This is more than normal.
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minor incidentyou can't swim whenyou've been dead a hundred yearsRegistered User, Transition Teamregular
Those raises are insulting, not just because they’re pitifully low, but they’re defacto pay cuts because they’re mostly not even in the ballpark of a 10-year inflation average.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
That's how the kleptocrats have reacted to the great resignation. Force inflation to sky rocket to offset the raises they were forced to give a few months ago
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
That's how the kleptocrats have reacted to the great resignation. Force inflation to sky rocket to offset the raises they were forced to give a few months ago
I wish I could believe the world was that coordinated. In actuality I think it's just people being stupid on their own and is multiplying like resonant waves.
He/Him | "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." - Dr. Johnetta Cole, 7/22/2024
That's how the kleptocrats have reacted to the great resignation. Force inflation to sky rocket to offset the raises they were forced to give a few months ago
I wish I could believe the world was that coordinated. In actuality I think it's just people being stupid on their own and is multiplying like resonant waves.
It's not coordinated, it's just the natural and widespread response, just like the "Great Resignation" itself was.
@Oghulk I just want to say thanks for what you do, as I know none of your constituents or peers will probably say it. You're doing..... Hamilton's work?
Overall I think it went pretty well, I stumbled a bit with one of the troubleshooting roleplaying scenarios (they threw me into a combiination of a DHCP service not loading due to misconfiguration, then a proxy server being enabled but not configured, THEN something getting in the way of DNS resolving one specific site that I never figured out why), but other than that I think I was able to answer questions and brainstorm problem solutions even better than the last interview. One thing I think definitely helped, is that the guy who would be my direct boss interviewed me again and specifically asked me a question he asked last week that I wasn't able to answer, but I'd made sure to look it up and understand it just in case of this very thing. So hopefully that's a good sign of my desire to learn and independent motivation. And talking with the recruiting coordinator at the end, he made sure to emphasize that anyone who makes it to the third round they're already pretty sure about, and that I'm not competing with a bunch of other candidates, that this is strictly about me and how they think I would fit in with the team - which I take as a good sign, but also means I can't blame it on there just being an anonymous "better candidate" if I don't get an offer.
Also my starting salary would be slightly higher than what my hopeful minimum was and it's also hourly to start, so any overtime would be paid. AND they do two reviews a year for raises and promotions, so I'd have plenty of opportunities to increase that. All in all, this would be a fantastic gig and I'm gonna go ahead and get my hopes up.
Either way, I won't know till the middle of next week. So for now...I drink!
This type of fuckery should be illegal. More and more companies are pulling this kind of nonsense. It’s completely tone deaf and unethical as fuck. Find a better way to train against phishing.
Got a email from my job saying all employees get a $30 gas card to alleviate high gas prices (we are required to drive clients around). Why when I went to sign up it sent me another email saying I was phished by my tech department as a tester and then got assigned training???🥲💔
Oh and literally right as the first interview was about to start, I half stood up to move my chair (an old wooden 4-leg thing) and somehow slid my toes underneath one of the legs as I sat down and crushed the living bejesus out of it. Nice big purple bruise there now.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
This type of fuckery should be illegal. More and more companies are pulling this kind of nonsense. It’s completely tone deaf and unethical as fuck. Find a better way to train against phishing.
Got a email from my job saying all employees get a $30 gas card to alleviate high gas prices (we are required to drive clients around). Why when I went to sign up it sent me another email saying I was phished by my tech department as a tester and then got assigned training???🥲💔
I feel much more strongly that the part that should be illegal is requiring your employees to drive clients around and not 1) offering a company car for it and 2) offering 100% of the gas. How fucked up is it that the employees have to pay for both?
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I ordered a single conduit from my supplier and it came prebent with a nice, gentle curve that would have rendered it utterly useless if I didn't only need 2' of the 10'
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
This type of fuckery should be illegal. More and more companies are pulling this kind of nonsense. It’s completely tone deaf and unethical as fuck. Find a better way to train against phishing.
Got a email from my job saying all employees get a $30 gas card to alleviate high gas prices (we are required to drive clients around). Why when I went to sign up it sent me another email saying I was phished by my tech department as a tester and then got assigned training???🥲💔
During a heat wave when people were agitating for shorts and overall better uniforms, the company sent out a message about new uniforms that was a phish. People were pissed and the backlash was pretty harsh.
Just_Bri_ThanksSeething with ragefrom a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPAregular
edited June 2022
So in my current assignment with the temp agency I'm working at the municipal landfill picking up scattered trash, weed eating, you know; stuff... Today capped out at 99° actual with the "feels like" at 109. And our break area is outdoors.
But hey at least it was National Garbage Workers Day and they bought all the employees (including us temps) breakfast foods from chick fil'a.
Just_Bri_Thanks on
...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Amid all the horror, I do have to pour one out for the IT security nerd who keeps thinking "You know what will really teach these wretched users about social engineering?"
Like, you're not wrong. But read the goddamn room, my friend.
I got one of those fake phishing emails in the midst of the ten thousand other account signups and activation things I was doing my first day at my new job. Came from a company email, right addresses and all, of course I clicked it!
@Oghulk I just want to say thanks for what you do, as I know none of your constituents or peers will probably say it. You're doing..... Hamilton's work?
Ironically I curse Alexander Hamilton at work because of how much bullshit I put up with from the US Treasury.
but they made a whole play about how cool and smart that guy was, why would you ever curse him
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
@Oghulk I just want to say thanks for what you do, as I know none of your constituents or peers will probably say it. You're doing..... Hamilton's work?
Ironically I curse Alexander Hamilton at work because of how much bullshit I put up with from the US Treasury.
but they made a whole play about how cool and smart that guy was, why would you ever curse him
Listen I love that play, but a lot of it is about what a dumbass idiot he was, too.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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KragaarA Million Feet Tall of AwesomeRegistered Userregular
Lego, one of the better companies out there, is opening a new factory in Virginia in 2025 and have already setup a page to notify people when they're hiring if anyone in the area is interested.
@Oghulk I just want to say thanks for what you do, as I know none of your constituents or peers will probably say it. You're doing..... Hamilton's work?
Ironically I curse Alexander Hamilton at work because of how much bullshit I put up with from the US Treasury.
but they made a whole play about how cool and smart that guy was, why would you ever curse him
Listen I love that play, but a lot of it is about what a dumbass idiot he was, too.
Yeah, Alexander Hamilton would have absolutely been a Gifted Program kid, and I mean that in the harshest way possible.
minor incident on
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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Why, so you can deal with your colleagues bumblefucking their way through fire insurance and construction?
And probably never will.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
I'm increasingly over this place. I wish I could find time to type up a fuckin resume.
To start, it's another going away lunch, which I already hate. The person in question is one of our longest serving employees, who has been involved with the university since she graduated from here. We had it at an upscale Italian restaurant in town, which is quite a ways from the office so I decided to WFH because it was so close to my place and it wasn't worth driving back and forth multiple times.
When I arrived, I was the first into the "overflow" tables. No big deal, I thought. I picked up a seat out of the way of where the servers would be walking, where I could lean over and be part of the conversation.
The next person to show up was a project manager that I've barely interacted with in years. Early on he would constantly be going to me for answers and guidance, which was fine except he wanted me to make decisions. We haven't talked much since my team lead stepped in and freed me from his multiple hour meetings each week.
Next couple of people were good coworkers - which is fine, but I could barely hear them talk.
then came the director. The person both me and the person leaving have in our direct chain of command.. and the one who is stonewalling us on actually getting new people, raising pay, etc. I am cordial and nice, but don't have a ton to talk about because while going away parties are good times to complain, I'm not going to complain to him.
The other director then joined us - a good, eager person who gets in over his head and butts heads constantly with our director.
Finally, our lead developer joined, who despite being the closest friend to the person leaving, also wasn't sent an invite for some strange reason? Very weird.
So.. yeah. 2 hour lunch, most of it spent just being silent and meditating across from a project manager that I'm neutral on, listening to two directors talk about how I keep stirring up trouble and all the grand plans for the future. The servers were waiting to take our order until "Everyone arrived," but I put a stop to that after 45 mins. After about an hour and 20 mins I finally gave up and started checking my phone.
It makes me wonder harder about future prospects. Even if I get everything I wanted... can I still tolerate to work with a middle manager who just puts up roadblocks?
(The answer is no, but god I'm torn on helping the university. And admittedly a bunch of fear and imposter syndrome about how I'd take to a job that actually requires me to do all the paperwork and metrics that I suspect a job really needs.)
Just apply to literally any job posting that seems like something you'd find interesting. You don't really need cover letters anymore, you barely need a resume. Say what you will about various economic shit going down, people are still desperate to hire.
Edit: And I know that it often feels like job hunting will be too much of a thing to do while you're also dealing with just work and life and all that but I've gotten like 5-6 bites from applications that took a combined total of 45 minutes. Hell I had people see that I was looking and then call me and progress to second interview already.
Look at that utter nonsense.
You should send this to @fuckyouiquit on Twitter. That is.
Honestly I'm laughing. That company just said, "Starbucks is unionizing? Hold my beer."
This is a good year.
The standard they do is a flat 25c at every step. That's how fucked this all is. This is more than normal.
I wish I could believe the world was that coordinated. In actuality I think it's just people being stupid on their own and is multiplying like resonant waves.
Bird strikes suuuuuck.
It's not coordinated, it's just the natural and widespread response, just like the "Great Resignation" itself was.
Ope, sorry, full time associates.
Temps will receive 500.
I wonder what sort of hardships that I apparently haven't been dealing with that justifies me, the bottom rung of the payscale, to recieve 80% less?
She says it's just a scratch (not home yet), other driver just stuck around long enough for her to get a picture of their insurance.
EDIT: Yeah, just a slight dent in the bumper. But, wouldn't have happened if she had gotten to stay work from home...
Like thank you but I don't think this helps that much.
Overall I think it went pretty well, I stumbled a bit with one of the troubleshooting roleplaying scenarios (they threw me into a combiination of a DHCP service not loading due to misconfiguration, then a proxy server being enabled but not configured, THEN something getting in the way of DNS resolving one specific site that I never figured out why), but other than that I think I was able to answer questions and brainstorm problem solutions even better than the last interview. One thing I think definitely helped, is that the guy who would be my direct boss interviewed me again and specifically asked me a question he asked last week that I wasn't able to answer, but I'd made sure to look it up and understand it just in case of this very thing. So hopefully that's a good sign of my desire to learn and independent motivation. And talking with the recruiting coordinator at the end, he made sure to emphasize that anyone who makes it to the third round they're already pretty sure about, and that I'm not competing with a bunch of other candidates, that this is strictly about me and how they think I would fit in with the team - which I take as a good sign, but also means I can't blame it on there just being an anonymous "better candidate" if I don't get an offer.
Also my starting salary would be slightly higher than what my hopeful minimum was and it's also hourly to start, so any overtime would be paid. AND they do two reviews a year for raises and promotions, so I'd have plenty of opportunities to increase that. All in all, this would be a fantastic gig and I'm gonna go ahead and get my hopes up.
Either way, I won't know till the middle of next week. So for now...I drink!
Could be worse!
My assistant manager has just announced that we have caught and compromised to a permanent end Noodle Mouse.
That’s goody as hell regardless, but during an ongoing pandemic it’s just stunningly dumb. And dangerous.
To be paid out on the last day before shutdown.
Which is unpaid for temps.
That's right, the reduced lump sum to "alleviate financial hardship" doesn't even cover the lost wages of shutdown.
It has taken all I have not to flip my shit all shift, and there's 3 hours to go.
I feel much more strongly that the part that should be illegal is requiring your employees to drive clients around and not 1) offering a company car for it and 2) offering 100% of the gas. How fucked up is it that the employees have to pay for both?
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
During a heat wave when people were agitating for shorts and overall better uniforms, the company sent out a message about new uniforms that was a phish. People were pissed and the backlash was pretty harsh.
A couple weeks later people were wearing shorts.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
But hey at least it was National Garbage Workers Day and they bought all the employees (including us temps) breakfast foods from chick fil'a.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Like, you're not wrong. But read the goddamn room, my friend.
but they made a whole play about how cool and smart that guy was, why would you ever curse him
Listen I love that play, but a lot of it is about what a dumbass idiot he was, too.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
https://www.legocareersvirginia.com/
Yeah, Alexander Hamilton would have absolutely been a Gifted Program kid, and I mean that in the harshest way possible.