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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Report him for overtime violations. He's currently under investigation for tax fraud and my future mother in law is still dealing with the courts because he didn't have workers comp insurance Which makes it a real good thing my milk crate never fell out from under me any of the times I stood on it
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Len posted:He's currently under investigation for tax fraud and my future mother in law is still dealing with the courts because he didn't have workers comp insurance Nice. I knew a guy like that. Dude was a 6 foot something new york Italian living in the South. Walking goddamn stereotype, even had the godfather song for his ringtone. He ran an irish themed bar, too lovely to call a pub. Paid his employees off the books entirely. Served food I wouldn't give a dog. I left that place to cook at Hooters for a while. Hooters was less sketchy than this dude. Motherfucker practically had oaks and elms hanging out under his shade.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:02
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Shipon posted:what the gently caress are they even /doing/? it's not like those people are actually doing anything except meaningless slide decks I used to work at a place that ran systems which managed Goldman Sachs' meaningless slide decks. They make far more meaningless slide decks than you can possibly imagine, and they all have to be perfect.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:28
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Like our system had to edit them sometimes, and if we hosed up and made a border line width one pixel too wide we'd get no end of support calls telling us our system was BUTCHERING their slides and that their customers will HATE this unprofessional look! I literally couldn't see what they were talking about until they put two of them side by side and zoomed way the gently caress in on the line in question. I'm sure their old people customers would have definitely been furious.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:31
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So do techies even do anything other than sleep/jo on the clock
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Mar 19, 2021 15:38
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Failed Imagineer posted:Lmao at working 50 hours a week. My employer gets my 37.5 hours a week, with the caveat that I will spend the majority of that time posting Eh, I'm forced into 40 hours a week spending most of my time shitposting. I think I've worked maybe 10 hours of overtime in the past 5 years, so it's not a huge deal
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Iron Crowned posted:Eh, I'm forced into 40 hours a week spending most of my time shitposting. I think I've worked maybe 10 hours of overtime in the past 5 years, so it's not a huge deal So are office jobs literally just "go post until we have something for you" and then that thing takes 10 minutes
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Mar 19, 2021 15:39
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SchnorkIes posted:So are office jobs literally just "go post until we have something for you" and then that thing takes 10 minutes Basically. "be here in case we need you to do something - also here's a recurring task we haven't figured out how to automate that you need to drudge on for maybe 4 hours a week or so"
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Mar 19, 2021 15:41
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SchnorkIes posted:So are office jobs literally just "go post until we have something for you" and then that thing takes 10 minutes And that's why I make the big bucks!
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Mar 19, 2021 15:42
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Slotducks posted:Basically. So by going into a high wage skilled trade I made a tremendous mistake vs just getting a bland corporate gig
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the purpose of work in 2021 is to make the poors who have to work miserable so that being rich feels better
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SchnorkIes posted:So do techies even do anything other than sleep/jo on the clock we also get mental illnesses and repetitive stress injuries (from all the typing and wanking)
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Cold on a Cob posted:we also get mental illnesses and repetitive stress injuries (from all the typing and wanking) But the 300k in total comp starting makes up for that handily I'm sure
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Mar 19, 2021 15:46
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SchnorkIes posted:But the 300k in total comp starting makes up for that handily I'm sure
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Slotducks posted:Basically. After my job managed to implement work-from-home processes for my department, they took a few months to solidify best practices, got every new process streamlined and established, and then promptly laid off almost everybody and shipped their jobs to the Philippines. The only reason I still have my job is because they haven't figured out how to automate it yet, and they haven't bothered or just plain forgot to teach somebody else how to do it.
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SpacePig posted:After my job managed to implement work-from-home processes for my department, they took a few months to solidify best practices, got every new process streamlined and established, and then promptly laid off almost everybody and shipped their jobs to the Philippines. The only reason I still have my job is because they haven't figured out how to automate it yet, and they haven't bothered or just plain forgot to teach somebody else how to do it. Congrats to your coworkers on being some of the only post 08 white collar layoffs lol
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SchnorkIes posted:But the 300k in total comp starting makes up for that handily I'm sure lol most of us aren't making anywhere near that much like i don't expect ppl here to cry for me, i make 2x what the average person makes in my city but it's not FAANG money
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I get my 5 year bonus of $100 next February if that program survives Bidens tax plan. They only started it after the Trump plan kicked in
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Mar 19, 2021 15:53
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Where I work all the office guys are on a 5am conference call 7 days a week and sending emails until 3am and make way less than me but I'm seeing that's not typical and my ultimate boss just likes to abuse his immediate flunkies
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Mar 19, 2021 15:54
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SchnorkIes posted:So by going into a high wage skilled trade I made a tremendous mistake vs just getting a bland corporate gig Absolutely not. Everyone needs a plumber, doctor, electrician, etc etc The moment a desk worker's employer stock goes higher - the boss gets a raise/bonus they get nothing - the moment a desk worker's employer stock goes lower - he's looking for a new job
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Slotducks posted:Absolutely not. Only desk workers have seen wage gains tho, they won't be left behind by inflation. Also they make more money to do literally nothing all day.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:55
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SchnorkIes posted:Only desk workers have seen wage gains tho, they won't be left behind by inflation. Also they make more money to do literally nothing all day. If you're in Canada - get into something that's related to living in some sense - home construction, plumbing, electrical, healthcare, dental, vision - get out of any manufacturing, oil & gas, anything remotely interesting. Our GDP is going to solely transform into housing related things in the very near future.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:57
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Slotducks posted:Everyone needs a plumber, doctor, electrician, etc etc lmao. all occupations and careers are worthless timewasters except those in finance, law, and insurance. these are the sectors where surplus value is captured.
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Slotducks posted:If you're in Canada - get into something that's related to living in some sense - home construction, plumbing, electrical, healthcare, dental, vision - get out of any manufacturing, oil & gas, anything remotely interesting. I'm in the US where our entire gdp is faang or gig work
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bedpan posted:lmao. What about tech
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Working an idle-game IT job is hell. You just sit there stressed out assuming everyone is mad at you because you're too depressed to work but too anxious not to try and spin your wheels watching lovely twitch streams just drowning in stress. It's poo poo. It's a blessing during a pandemic but without the pandemic I would prefer any other job I've done before, except that I require health insurance and the ability to retire at some point. Being a janitor, working at a factory, cooking at the restaurant, etc. The highest quality of work is social, outdoors, in-person, communal and voluntary. Basically being Amish but with social safety nets, beneficial technology and healthcare.
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Salt Fish posted:Working an idle-game IT job is hell. You just sit there stressed out assuming everyone is mad at you because you're too depressed to work but too anxious not to try and spin your wheels watching lovely twitch streams just drowning in stress. It's poo poo. It's a blessing during a pandemic but without the pandemic I would prefer any other job I've done before, except that I require health insurance and the ability to retire at some point. Being a janitor, working at a factory, cooking at the restaurant, etc. This blows my mind bc my job much more resembles your ideal than any of your other jobs even and yet I still would do anything to be a googler jacking off to star trek all day bc of the K shaped recovery
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bedpan posted:all occupations and careers are worthless timewasters except those in finance, law, and insurance. these are the sectors where surplus value is captured. Insurance and lawyers are at least necessary to navigate modern society - Finance is just "hey rich people - pay me to hold your money and I may or may not increase its value" and rich people are dumb enough to take that bet
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you can logically know that you’re better off than 99.99% of people in the world but still be depressed and hate your life sometimes the more you think about the former the worst the latter becomes. lol!
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Salt Fish posted:Being a janitor, working at a I have done all of these, and I miss them, but I don't miss the lovely rear end pay. Janitor was probably the best because I could just put headphones on and mop floors all night long.
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SchnorkIes posted:Congrats to your coworkers on being some of the only post 08 white collar layoffs lol It was positions mostly filled by temps and temp-to-hire people, so they were the most expendable people in the company! And yes the sales and customer service positions are also filled by temps, but who could imagine laying off a salesperson?
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Iron Crowned posted:I have done all of these, and I miss them, but I don't miss the lovely rear end pay. Janitor was probably the best because I could just put headphones on and mop floors all night long. All of my rewarding meaningful jobs that involved far more actual work than sitting on my rear end opening one e-mail every thirty minutes paid absolute garbage with no chance of higher pay. I would go back to any of those jobs in a heartbeat if they paid even $20K less than what I make now, rather than less than half. The jobs don't make up for the crushing misery of poverty. I might be working more hours in a less rewarding job but I don't need to flake on events because I'm broke so it's a worthwhile tradeoff. Still depressed though lmaooo life suuuckss
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The thing that always concerns me about my job is that no matter where I work, and how long I work there, I'm still technically the new guy, so when things go to poo poo, I get the axe. Previous record was not quite 3 years, somehow I would never make it to that 3rd anniversary. Come December, I'll be hitting my 5th anniversary, and I just get increasingly nervous about this poo poo every year. Oh, and our parent company has decided that we don't fit in their business mold, so they're going to sell us off sometime in the near future, so that may not mean a thing, especially since I'm almost established here, but I've been through that one before, and it's resulted in being unemployed.
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I am constantly worried about getting fired yeah. But to be fair I put in the lowest amount of effort possible and almost never arrive on time. I've been here over three years and recently became the not-most-junior guy. I absolutely deserve to be fired but every time I think I'm going to get reamed for something that seems super serious everyone kind of shrugs and doesn't care at all? Everything is so stupid
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I used to be worried about getting fired but then I realized the woman who made a $90k error only got three days of suspension and the guy who let the $90k error go out the door only got two. I'm safe
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SchnorkIes posted:Only desk workers have seen wage gains tho, they won't be left behind by inflation. Also they make more money to do literally nothing all day. when i did desk work for a decade i topped out at 26k take home and very little is worse than simultaneously having a do nothing job and also being broke as hell, but i was a clerk/receptionist rather than a tech worker i had benefits tho, and no cold call sales quotas (by a different name, because we were a nonprofit, please) so it was better than call center, but far worse than when i worked as a handyman's assistant for cash under the table (but that's a young man's game and i'm neither anymore lmao)
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Jel Shaker posted:you can bet that Steven Mnuchin did not undergo such treatment, what with his father being one of the banks bosses I imagine the people who get abused in at tier 1 and the people who run/will run the place are on completely different tracks at these banks.
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skooma512 posted:I imagine the people who get abused in at tier 1 and the people who run/will run the place are on completely different tracks at these banks. they are, its failsons of failsons all the way down
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skooma512 posted:I imagine the people who get abused in at tier 1 and the people who run/will run the place are on completely different tracks at these banks. Well, you don't need to start at entry level son, I know you're already ready for middle management. I see all your subordinates have quit or literally died. Can't be your fault, better get you a promotion away from there.
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Len posted:I used to be worried about getting fired but then I realized the woman who made a $90k error only got three days of suspension and the guy who let the $90k error go out the door only got two. I'm safe all the work I do is reviewed by people above me, so whenever I gently caress up, it’s a BIG royal “WE messed this up, what are WE going to do to fix this? Hopefully next time WE don’t make this error again.”
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