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Volmarias posted:Whatever it was, it seems to just 404 now Looks like you just got reorganised, sorry for your loss.
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dpkg chopra posted:The company sends a monthly “recognitions” email. Literally all of them are “So and so routinely stays after hours or logs in on weekends to make sure we meet quota. What a team player!”. Every time I see one of these I just feel bad for the people being recognized. Especially when they sprinkle in language about how "Soandso does this willingly without any complaints." Like lol and lmao.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Every time I see one of these I just feel bad for the people being recognized. Especially when they sprinkle in language about how "Soandso does this willingly without any complaints." Like lol and lmao. “I would also like to add that EMPLOYEE was available to take calls during their vacation to ensure the customer got everything they needed while they were away.” “EMPLOYEE is proactively downloading these records during off time beyond their shift hours so that we save production time and can directly jump on processing of records and deliver quotes quickly” “EMPLOYEE is very customer-centric and delivers all assignments with 100% quality. They have contributed 50.75 hours as overtime which is great. By achieving this goal, the team became more profitable, resulting in the opportunity to deliver more.” Most of these are from the India service so maybe it’s just a cultural thing.
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Apr 25, 2024 13:13
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dpkg chopra posted:“I would also like to add that EMPLOYEE was available to take calls during their vacation to ensure the customer got everything they needed while they were away.” I love that they're compiling all this evidence for EMPLOYEE's eventual wage theft lawsuit in such a convenient form.
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docbeard posted:I love that they're compiling all this evidence for EMPLOYEE's eventual wage theft lawsuit in such a convenient form. I don't think wage theft is real in India. India white collar work culture is hosed up in a performative way.
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Apr 25, 2024 14:15
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To be clear these are all different EMPLOYEEs
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Looks like you just got reorganised, sorry for your loss. "Suddenly unable to access company resources" is literally how I found out that I was being laid off, so...
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One of my direct reports is a go-getter to a fault. He's regularly volunteering for work "extracurriculars" - employee satisfaction committees, DE&I clubs, moderating an ERG panels, etc. This has certainly gotten him lots of high-level exposure, but it has also puts a ton on his plate, so I've been coaching him on how to assess these opportunities against his workload before volunteering. Because the last thing I need is for him to get burnt out due to his own eagerness. Today, we were on an org meeting, and the Director was asking for volunteers for some BS committee and specifically called on my report by name (because people know that he's historically loved that poo poo). My report replied "I'll need to look at my upcoming workload and get back to you if I have bandwidth." Saying no without saying no. I'm so proud.
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Apr 25, 2024 21:01
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A Tale of Two Companies Company my wife is joining: onboarding portal for things like background check and policy training, she picked her preferred laptop a few weeks back in it, when she got a shipping email it was accompanied by instructions to not turn it on when received and to wait for a Zoom call to ensure all IT prerequisites were done, came with a company backpack Company my wife is leaving: she gave two weeks notice but apparently her boss didn’t actually flag she was leaving to HR until a week later. She asked about returning her laptop and they said she would probably get something about it. It’s been just over two weeks since her last day and she still has the laptop and has gotten no return information.
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Apr 25, 2024 21:16
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Cael posted:A Tale of Two Companies I've been in this employers shoes before where I sent someone a $1000-when-new laptop, they used it for a year and are now leaving: As long as I can remotely lock it I don't care about the (now) $600 asset she's holding. Returning it means $300 in IT team work to receive, track, unpack, wipe and install our image to ready it for the next person so that $300 savings from returning ranks roughly bottom on the priority list.
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In that case it's worth having a way to remotely wipe it and tell them to enjoy their free laptop.
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Apr 25, 2024 22:23
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When I got laid off with 20% of my last company, they let us keep the laptop in addition to the rest of the severance. Pretty good real for me given it was a M1 Max with 64gb of memory. Turns out it retails for four grand! But like CFP said, dealing with that many laptops coming back to an office probably wasn’t worth it for them. Nice machine and really good at playing Balatro.
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Arquinsiel posted:In that case it's worth having a way to remotely wipe it and tell them to enjoy their free laptop. All companies prob have a way to remotely wipe it. It ruffles certain feathers to not get it back plus you don’t know for sure it got wiped.
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Nybble posted:When I got laid off with 20% of my last company, they let us keep the laptop in addition to the rest of the severance. Pretty good real for me given it was a M1 Max with 64gb of memory. Turns out it retails for four grand! I don't think you need much processing power to run Balatro, but maybe it gives you better cards and jokers than mine
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We're just now rolling out device blocking for laptops not returned by off boarded employees. And we're charging their manager's cost center to boot. Our return rate is WAY up.
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Apr 26, 2024 00:58
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Why the hell would I want to keep a suck rear end work laptop?! Someone rubbed their junk all over it (me)
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mllaneza posted:We're just now rolling out device blocking for laptops not returned by off boarded employees. And we're charging their manager's cost center to boot. Our return rate is WAY up. My ex-manager is gonna love that. He has a stack of like 10 in his office.
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Sundae posted:My ex-manager is gonna love that. He has a stack of like 10 in his office. More proof that your group isn't a real part of the organization - IT started going after laptop hoarders like 5 years ago. Hell, I'm sometimes surprised your badge works at the cafeteria.
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CarForumPoster posted:All companies prob have a way to remotely wipe it. It ruffles certain feathers to not get it back plus you don’t know for sure it got wiped. priznat posted:Why the hell would I want to keep a suck rear end work laptop?! Someone rubbed their junk all over it (me)
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mllaneza posted:More proof that your group isn't a real part of the organization - IT started going after laptop hoarders like 5 years ago. Hell, I'm sometimes surprised your badge works at the cafeteria. I’ll gather them and return them myself. It’s literally a full cabinet for him, and I have 2-3 as well.
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My previous company I left back in November in part because of a mass exodus because they weren’t getting local office/lab space is moving into a new office, in the same office park as my new job, lol. I should apply. Unlikely as the acting director guy was super pissy at me for leaving.
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No way LinkedIn, if I spend my free time writing a “collaborative article” (ie: training your LLM) I get a NEW BADGE for my profile? Sign me the gently caress up.
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Sundae posted:I’ll gather them and return them myself. It’s literally a full cabinet for him, and I have 2-3 as well. Build a fort.
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You know that old adage of “if you think everyone you meet is an rear end in a top hat, maybe you’re the rear end in a top hat”? Does that apply to companies too? Like if every company you work for sucks, does that mean you suck? Things I think about, but perhaps it’s more just related to the field.
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priznat posted:You know that old adage of “if you think everyone you meet is an rear end in a top hat, maybe you’re the rear end in a top hat”? Does that apply to companies too? Like if every company you work for sucks, does that mean you suck? I think that just about every company either always sucked, or eventually comes to suck.
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priznat posted:You know that old adage of “if you think everyone you meet is an rear end in a top hat, maybe you’re the rear end in a top hat”? Does that apply to companies too? No but it might mean your expectations are unrealistic.
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I’m just concerned maybe it’s me 
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priznat posted:I’m just concerned maybe it’s me Not all companies suck, but your expectations must be out of whack for your industry/size of company you're working for. You need to set your own expectaions realistically, esepcially in mid to large corporate. They all have the same personalities/problems to one extent or another.
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Volmarias posted:I think that just about every company either always sucked, or eventually comes to suck. it's the second one that hurts the most
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priznat posted:You know that old adage of “if you think everyone you meet is an rear end in a top hat, maybe you’re the rear end in a top hat”? Does that apply to companies too? Like if every company you work for sucks, does that mean you suck? Maybe the field or role within it, or possibly that your expectations are so low for what constitutes a good job that you take things you shouldn’t and ignore red flags. Nobody would tel a retail customer service worker or call center worker that they were the problem when all their jobs suck, but if they suck particularly badly even for the industry? Maybe they’re not picking the relative winners.  I mean, that describes my career doesn’t it? Hopping from one insane mess to the next. I thought I’d broken the curse here but looks like it just took longer to start. 
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Car Hater posted:it's the second one that hurts the most Really. It's so sad when a place is more or less fine, so you get comfortable, start to care about how it's doing, get everything and everyone polished up and working well... then some external event tips the whole thing over and you're back hopping from shitfire to shitfire. Had that twice, once being once being an extremely unwise C-suite appointment when I was still in corp stuff, and once more recently being covid.
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dpkg chopra posted:No way LinkedIn, if I spend my free time writing a “collaborative article” (ie: training your LLM) I get a NEW BADGE for my profile? The best new LinkedIn thing is the AI generated comment choices under every post now. They are such useless comments that I can't imagine LinkedIn keeping them there for long, they add absolutely nothing of value to anyone.
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Mustang posted:The best new LinkedIn thing is the AI generated comment choices under every post now. They are such useless comments that I can't imagine LinkedIn keeping them there for long, they add absolutely nothing of value to anyone. They're exactly as useful as the usual linkedin comments so really they're just automating the circle jerking to make sycophants more efficient. Car Hater posted:it's the second one that hurts the most You don't know the half of it. 
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Cael posted:A Tale of Two Companies My last company instructed that my laptop had to be physically handed in on campus. I dropped it off on my last day at a staffed helpdesk as per the instructions, and then spent the next three weeks fielding increasingly desperate voicemails from them asking me to please return my laptop. Apparently they changed the dropoff location after I finished up and couldn't find my laptop, so who knows where it ended up. At some point they were arguing that I had to supply them with the ticket number for the laptop return job, except by that point I hadn't worked there for over a week and had no access to the systems any more. Eventually they stopped trying.
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The linkedin things where they try to get "experts" to answer questions like "how would you debug an automotive processor" or whatever is just bizarre. Is this just harvesting lovely answers to train AIs or something?
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Mustang posted:The best new LinkedIn thing is the AI generated comment choices under every post now. They are such useless comments that I can't imagine LinkedIn keeping them there for long, they add absolutely nothing of value to anyone. So, on-brand and a perfect complement to linkedin posts then?
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Che Delilas posted:So, on-brand and a perfect complement to linkedin posts then? Honestly, could AI comments be any worse than the bullshit people already post? At least the AI might occasionally use punctuation.
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