There is a job opening within my department (graduate school-level IT/AV) that I want to share but not sure what the proper way to go about it (tried to search for an example on here but couldn't find a recent post).
Do I drop the link to the description here with some insight to the job or just have interested forumers DM me for the link and info?
Thanks in advance!
getting people to DM you is probably better, for privacy reasons. It's been done that way in the past anyway
There is a job opening within my department (graduate school-level IT/AV) that I want to share but not sure what the proper way to go about it (tried to search for an example on here but couldn't find a recent post).
Do I drop the link to the description here with some insight to the job or just have interested forumers DM me for the link and info?
Thanks in advance!
getting people to DM you is probably better, for privacy reasons. It's been done that way in the past anyway
Thanks, I'll go that route then.
Anyone interested please DM for the job link and questions; I'll do my best to answer/clarify.
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
I sent off an order to our warehouse for two boxes of an item, total billed to our budget center should have been less than $12. I overhear my GM complaining about an invoice for the items I ordered, had him forward it to me. Turns out guy at the warehouse thought two boxes wasn't enough, better bill us for 30 boxes!
I love when I have to contact somebody else's boss to fix a problem and then at the end they cc in the employee who fucked up.
+18
Options
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
The thing that really gets me about this, was that my boss wasn't going to look any further into why somebody had apparently ordered thirty boxes(for ninety individual units) of wall mounted broom holders.
+26
Options
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Well because at the hell known to men over the summer many managers were fired or quit. They will have the computer order so the odd thing is if the item's home can hold maybe 1 and a half boxes the computer will order 3 boxes so it's quite annoying with the amount of freight piling up
0
Options
lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
Fuck I really hate workplace well-being surveys.
I never know how to answer them. Like, do you really want me to be completely honest about how little I give a fuck about the company's supposed social goals? Do you want me to just accept the premise that the company has altruistic intent, or should I do away with the pretense?
Like seriously.
One of the questions was "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life." And you had to answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
There's sadly no, "what? No. Fuck off" option.
Doing these surveys is bad for my well-being. Just stop pretending you give a shit about your numbers on a spreadsheet. Just pay me and go away.
I never know how to answer them. Like, do you really want me to be completely honest about how little I give a fuck about the company's supposed social goals? Do you want me to just accept the premise that the company has altruistic intent, or should I do away with the pretense?
Like seriously.
One of the questions was "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life." And you had to answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
There's sadly no, "what? No. Fuck off" option.
Doing these surveys is bad for my well-being. Just stop pretending you give a shit about your numbers on a spreadsheet. Just pay me and go away.
Not cool. There's at least one person in every company whose entire job depends on creating and sending out company well-being surveys, and you're seriously impacting their continued well-being by not filling out the survey.
+7
Options
lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
I mean, I filled out the survey.
And it was contracted to another company.
I'll fill out the bullshit surveys. But they still enrage me
I never know how to answer them. Like, do you really want me to be completely honest about how little I give a fuck about the company's supposed social goals? Do you want me to just accept the premise that the company has altruistic intent, or should I do away with the pretense?
Like seriously.
One of the questions was "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life." And you had to answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
There's sadly no, "what? No. Fuck off" option.
Doing these surveys is bad for my well-being. Just stop pretending you give a shit about your numbers on a spreadsheet. Just pay me and go away.
Not cool. There's at least one person in every company whose entire job depends on creating and sending out company well-being surveys, and you're seriously impacting their continued well-being by not filling out the survey.
This was meant to be a joke, right?
+1
Options
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I never know how to answer them. Like, do you really want me to be completely honest about how little I give a fuck about the company's supposed social goals? Do you want me to just accept the premise that the company has altruistic intent, or should I do away with the pretense?
Like seriously.
One of the questions was "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life." And you had to answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
There's sadly no, "what? No. Fuck off" option.
Doing these surveys is bad for my well-being. Just stop pretending you give a shit about your numbers on a spreadsheet. Just pay me and go away.
Not cool. There's at least one person in every company whose entire job depends on creating and sending out company well-being surveys, and you're seriously impacting their continued well-being by not filling out the survey.
This was meant to be a joke, right?
It was! Sorry, I consistently underestimate how dark to throw when making work jokes.
+8
Options
lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
Yeah it took me a bit after I replied to realize you were probably joking.
I just really wish the company would stop treating us like we're stupid. It's a international telecommunications company.
They really only want to make money and do not care about my well-being unless it's going to effect their bottom line.
Boy I feel for the folks working at the Dollar General the next town over on my way to and from work. A customer walked out with their bathroom key, meaning not even the employees can go in there.
Employees and customers have to go around the side of a building to use the single porta potty until corporate deems them worthy enough to send someone to unlock their bathrooms.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I never know how to answer them. Like, do you really want me to be completely honest about how little I give a fuck about the company's supposed social goals? Do you want me to just accept the premise that the company has altruistic intent, or should I do away with the pretense?
Like seriously.
One of the questions was "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life." And you had to answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
There's sadly no, "what? No. Fuck off" option.
Doing these surveys is bad for my well-being. Just stop pretending you give a shit about your numbers on a spreadsheet. Just pay me and go away.
Not cool. There's at least one person in every company whose entire job depends on creating and sending out company well-being surveys, and you're seriously impacting their continued well-being by not filling out the survey.
This was meant to be a joke, right?
It was! Sorry, I consistently underestimate how dark to throw when making work jokes.
No.
No.
Your post should be written on a ten point scale between strongly agree and strongly disagree.
In group chat this morning: I am trying desperately to get through my monthly audit before I lose power, it's been flickering all morning.
My team in individual chats: Hey, I know you're busy, but...
0
Options
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
I'm starting to not like my reputation of knowing everything around here. I shouldn't be the person advising the HR rep on what we need to recover from an employee going through termination.
I'll fill out the bullshit surveys. But they still enrage me
That's a disagree. As someone who runs those type of surveys (caveat - some people who run these are dicks) PLEASE answer honestly so we can beat senior management with the number cudgel. Most often senior management is meeting with each other and doesn't have enough "on the ground" info because it just isn't their daily world. Surveys are one of the instruments we use to get better info out there in a quantified format. There's other ways, but they're invasive and unreliable, so we prefer not to even open that door - surveys are opt-in. For the engaged groups we've made meaningful improvements and been able to help people make decisions that make daily life in our company materially better.
Key things to be aware of:
1. Is it anonymous? Most likely yes - GDPR et al have made tracked surveys a giant pain. That said - compare your link with a coworkers - if they're different it's likely tracked. That said, anytime I run a tracked survey it's just to be able to do business unit breakouts, not for any nefarious reasons. I've never once been asked to unmask a commenter, and I've dropped some hot fire on some of the presentation slide decks.
2. Does it matter? Depends on how much people care about their employees. Surveys only work if they're tied to real action, so I'd recommend asking about what they do with the results action-planning wise.
3. Why is it a crappy survey? Most people don't understand how to properly use survey. It's a sentiment instrument, but people think that humans can answer various questions that they truly cannot. It sucks, because management will repeatedly ask for questions that can't be answered properly (like how much time do you spend doing X) - this is why ideally survey is just one instrument in an array that help describe employee experience.
0
Options
ThegreatcowLord of All BaconsWashington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered Userregular
I'm always nervous in the back of my mind those surveys are going to be tied back to me somehow. I answer honestly enough most times, because at this point I'm just saturated in dread/fatigue/depression about my job, I can't even bother trying to sugarcoat how I feel about work. As long as the checks are good and I can pay my monthly bills, that's about the extent I can muster to care about work. I've seen too many times how work will drop our asses at the drop of a hat to make some quarterly goal couched in business-speak, so forgive me if I tick the "Strongly Disagree" pip when it comes to "fulfillment" of my role.
sponoMining for Nose DiamondsBooger CoveRegistered Userregular
Oh hey I just filled out our survey too
I'm guessing these are all coming from the same place
Here is what I wrote in the comments box at the end, prompted by "What are the things keeping you from performing your job to the fullest extent possible":
There are no defined criteria for advancement or pay increases. We are often hammered with threats against our yearly bonuses (make sure to complete your safety training!), but we are never told how to get a promotion or a raise. We, like most other businesses, keep everyone's pay grade secret in order to keep lower-paid employees in the dark about how much they are being underpaid.
We used to get weekly surveys when you log onto the company web page to do stuff
Mostly it was how are you this week and why? They asked awkward questions about pay after they stopped the pandemic pay and again after the rumor they were rasing the rates supports and such get
There is another one that popped up but I think it's the usual deep dive one
I'll fill out the bullshit surveys. But they still enrage me
That's a disagree. As someone who runs those type of surveys (caveat - some people who run these are dicks) PLEASE answer honestly so we can beat senior management with the number cudgel. Most often senior management is meeting with each other and doesn't have enough "on the ground" info because it just isn't their daily world. Surveys are one of the instruments we use to get better info out there in a quantified format. There's other ways, but they're invasive and unreliable, so we prefer not to even open that door - surveys are opt-in. For the engaged groups we've made meaningful improvements and been able to help people make decisions that make daily life in our company materially better.
Key things to be aware of:
1. Is it anonymous? Most likely yes - GDPR et al have made tracked surveys a giant pain. That said - compare your link with a coworkers - if they're different it's likely tracked. That said, anytime I run a tracked survey it's just to be able to do business unit breakouts, not for any nefarious reasons. I've never once been asked to unmask a commenter, and I've dropped some hot fire on some of the presentation slide decks.
2. Does it matter? Depends on how much people care about their employees. Surveys only work if they're tied to real action, so I'd recommend asking about what they do with the results action-planning wise.
3. Why is it a crappy survey? Most people don't understand how to properly use survey. It's a sentiment instrument, but people think that humans can answer various questions that they truly cannot. It sucks, because management will repeatedly ask for questions that can't be answered properly (like how much time do you spend doing X) - this is why ideally survey is just one instrument in an array that help describe employee experience.
When you run these types of surveys, do you also include the weirdly intrusive questions that Hava was complaining about, concerning whether "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life"?
Surveys in general can be helpful, but questions like this foster an unhealthy expectation that work should be... spiritually fulfilling? No. Just no. Even if I generally like my job, it's something I do so I don't fucking starve in the streets. My sense of purpose in life is not tied to making the numbers go up for a corporation.
Yeah, you don't owe your employer a goddamned thing past doing your job
Your job should not be your life, or your life's passion, unless you're like dream job is your actual job and you are self employed or living the actual dream of getting paid to follow your passion
In which case you're probably not getting coerced into doing weird intrusive prying surveys
Yes, of course filling out these spreadsheets with numbers from other spreadsheets makes me feel like I'm fulfilling my life's true purpose. Why would you think otherwise?
My job is sometimes to make life slightly easier for accountants by automating their most boring tasks. It’s pretty fulfilling.
Other times my job is to do pointless bullshit so an IT auditor can tick some boxes. It’s unfulfilling.
Gotta make sure I keep my filling-level balanced.
0
Options
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Protesters are being assholes today. First a bunch came in and marched through the store with drums and loudspeakers trying to convince us to walk out for an issue our union is already working on, and now they've pulled the fire alarm.
Protesters are being assholes today. First a bunch came in and marched through the store with drums and loudspeakers trying to convince us to walk out for an issue our union is already working on, and now they've pulled the fire alarm.
Yeah! Why can't they just enjoy the taste of boots like the rest of us?!
Protesters are being assholes today. First a bunch came in and marched through the store with drums and loudspeakers trying to convince us to walk out for an issue our union is already working on, and now they've pulled the fire alarm.
Yeah! Why can't they just enjoy the taste of boots like the rest of us?!
Oh fuck off.
+13
Options
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
What are they protesting and why aren't they coordinating with the union if they apparently share the same aims?
I guess there was a larger BLM protest nearby and a group split to come down here because our parent company in Ohio banned employees from wearing anything BLM related like buttons or pins, which the union is pushing back on.
Posts
getting people to DM you is probably better, for privacy reasons. It's been done that way in the past anyway
Thanks, I'll go that route then.
Anyone interested please DM for the job link and questions; I'll do my best to answer/clarify.
I love when I have to contact somebody else's boss to fix a problem and then at the end they cc in the employee who fucked up.
I never know how to answer them. Like, do you really want me to be completely honest about how little I give a fuck about the company's supposed social goals? Do you want me to just accept the premise that the company has altruistic intent, or should I do away with the pretense?
Like seriously.
One of the questions was "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life." And you had to answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
There's sadly no, "what? No. Fuck off" option.
Doing these surveys is bad for my well-being. Just stop pretending you give a shit about your numbers on a spreadsheet. Just pay me and go away.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Not cool. There's at least one person in every company whose entire job depends on creating and sending out company well-being surveys, and you're seriously impacting their continued well-being by not filling out the survey.
And it was contracted to another company.
I'll fill out the bullshit surveys. But they still enrage me
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
This was meant to be a joke, right?
It was! Sorry, I consistently underestimate how dark to throw when making work jokes.
I just really wish the company would stop treating us like we're stupid. It's a international telecommunications company.
They really only want to make money and do not care about my well-being unless it's going to effect their bottom line.
So they should stop pretending that they care.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Employees and customers have to go around the side of a building to use the single porta potty until corporate deems them worthy enough to send someone to unlock their bathrooms.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Is this?
I haven't worked stock in a while but
things used to pull around hundreds of pounds of product should probably... not be broken.
Hundreds of pounds? Try literally tons.
Me closing Excel and trying to do the most elementary stuff from the command line:
No.
No.
Your post should be written on a ten point scale between strongly agree and strongly disagree.
I mean... yea. That would be.
My team in individual chats: Hey, I know you're busy, but...
That's a disagree. As someone who runs those type of surveys (caveat - some people who run these are dicks) PLEASE answer honestly so we can beat senior management with the number cudgel. Most often senior management is meeting with each other and doesn't have enough "on the ground" info because it just isn't their daily world. Surveys are one of the instruments we use to get better info out there in a quantified format. There's other ways, but they're invasive and unreliable, so we prefer not to even open that door - surveys are opt-in. For the engaged groups we've made meaningful improvements and been able to help people make decisions that make daily life in our company materially better.
Key things to be aware of:
1. Is it anonymous? Most likely yes - GDPR et al have made tracked surveys a giant pain. That said - compare your link with a coworkers - if they're different it's likely tracked. That said, anytime I run a tracked survey it's just to be able to do business unit breakouts, not for any nefarious reasons. I've never once been asked to unmask a commenter, and I've dropped some hot fire on some of the presentation slide decks.
2. Does it matter? Depends on how much people care about their employees. Surveys only work if they're tied to real action, so I'd recommend asking about what they do with the results action-planning wise.
3. Why is it a crappy survey? Most people don't understand how to properly use survey. It's a sentiment instrument, but people think that humans can answer various questions that they truly cannot. It sucks, because management will repeatedly ask for questions that can't be answered properly (like how much time do you spend doing X) - this is why ideally survey is just one instrument in an array that help describe employee experience.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
I'm guessing these are all coming from the same place
Here is what I wrote in the comments box at the end, prompted by "What are the things keeping you from performing your job to the fullest extent possible":
There are no defined criteria for advancement or pay increases. We are often hammered with threats against our yearly bonuses (make sure to complete your safety training!), but we are never told how to get a promotion or a raise. We, like most other businesses, keep everyone's pay grade secret in order to keep lower-paid employees in the dark about how much they are being underpaid.
Mostly it was how are you this week and why? They asked awkward questions about pay after they stopped the pandemic pay and again after the rumor they were rasing the rates supports and such get
There is another one that popped up but I think it's the usual deep dive one
When you run these types of surveys, do you also include the weirdly intrusive questions that Hava was complaining about, concerning whether "My work helps me fulfill my sense of purpose in life"?
Surveys in general can be helpful, but questions like this foster an unhealthy expectation that work should be... spiritually fulfilling? No. Just no. Even if I generally like my job, it's something I do so I don't fucking starve in the streets. My sense of purpose in life is not tied to making the numbers go up for a corporation.
Your job should not be your life, or your life's passion, unless you're like dream job is your actual job and you are self employed or living the actual dream of getting paid to follow your passion
In which case you're probably not getting coerced into doing weird intrusive prying surveys
Other times my job is to do pointless bullshit so an IT auditor can tick some boxes. It’s unfulfilling.
Gotta make sure I keep my filling-level balanced.
Yeah! Why can't they just enjoy the taste of boots like the rest of us?!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Oh fuck off.
I guess there was a larger BLM protest nearby and a group split to come down here because our parent company in Ohio banned employees from wearing anything BLM related like buttons or pins, which the union is pushing back on.