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"we're kind of like a big family" said every clueless, disconnected CEO and HR manager ever
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Jul 29, 2021 17:24
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Space Kablooey posted:Not sure if it's worse or better than that infamous it job posting Not sure what you’re referring to, so please post it
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Jul 29, 2021 18:02
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Not sure what you’re referring to, so please post it Sorry I was on my phone and couldn't remember any specific details at the time. 
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Jul 29, 2021 18:31
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don't rogues also steal and stab people
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Jul 29, 2021 18:35
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Perfect for a career in corporate finance.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:36
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Biowarfare posted:don't rogues also steal and stab people
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Jul 29, 2021 18:53
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I really wish there was a follow up on that Rogue position to see if any sucker took it and what it was like
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Jul 29, 2021 18:54
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On the topic of 'penny wise, pound foolish': At my last job we mailed out thousands and thousands of license renewal notices every month. Every single payment we got back was at least $300. We had multiple all-department meetings to discuss complaints our manager was hearing from our mail room that every month a handful (maybe a dozen) of these letters would come back undeliverable, or be sent out without being stuffed properly due to an error. Like ten people, each making at least $18/hour, listening to this over multiple meetings, over the waste of maybe $10-$20 worth of stamps per month. To send out notices which each brought in $300+. They started requiring us to export our mailing list to Excel and have it pre-checked against USPS address verification before we mailed things out. Every month. In addition, at one point management noticed that including pre-addressed return envelopes costs money. I pointed out that if NOT including a return envelope caused us to miss even ONE license payment, we would lose more money than what we spent on return envelopes. They stopped ordering return envelopes.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:17
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ben shapino posted:"we're kind of like a big family" said every clueless, disconnected CEO and HR manager ever Any time a business tells you they're a "family" it's likely an abusive environment. The Duggars are a family. Manson and Jim Jones had a family. "Family" means management and co-workers cross boundaries in ways not tolerated in any other environment.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:25
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Is that rogue brewery?! Oh man I didn't realize they were that lovely :/ their beer isn't terrible
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Jul 29, 2021 19:47
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Space Kablooey posted:Sorry I was on my phone and couldn't remember any specific details at the time. IT Manager... not a $50k+ position... fuuuuuck
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Jul 29, 2021 20:19
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SubnormalityStairs posted:IT Manager... not a $50k+ position... fuuuuuck PLEASE don't apply
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Jul 29, 2021 20:26
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SubnormalityStairs posted:IT Manager... not a $50k+ position... fuuuuuck My managers title is 'Infrastructure Manager'. he gets paid about £4k more than I do & my moneys not that great. I spend my day doing as little as possible & he has to run his arse ragged, I know which job I'd rather have.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:35
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Knowing the craft beer job market they probably got a live one for $18k and a promise he can stand at the side lines on brew day and pretend to help.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:37
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Lol I just found out that a good third of our team is making 10-20k more than the rest of us because they have the same terminal degree as the boss Like PharmDs making 10k more than PhDs or nurses when we all do the same type of work and have the same type of experience in this particular role
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Jul 29, 2021 20:41
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Lol I just found out that a good third of our team is making 10-20k more than the rest of us because they have the same terminal degree as the boss "I've got a PharmD, why the gently caress am I even here making as much as a nurse?"
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Jul 29, 2021 20:43
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Volmarias posted:"I've got a PharmD, why the gently caress am I even here making as much as a nurse?" We all work for pharma, so the nurses are making much better cash compared to working in a hospital fwiw
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Jul 29, 2021 20:46
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goatface posted:Perfect for a career in corporate finance. No self respecting corpo rogue would accept a job that proudly proclaims it won't pay more than $50k though 
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Jul 29, 2021 20:58
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'I really love the 'Rouges are willing to shun titles and personal success in the pursuit of the greater good' Like, maybe that would make sense if it was a charity or action group or something. But it's a loving brewpub. What public good?
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Jul 29, 2021 21:04
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Outrail posted:'I really love the 'Rouges are willing to shun titles and personal success in the pursuit of the greater good' The "greater good" of getting people thoroughly hammered, I guess.
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Jul 29, 2021 21:23
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The greater good of buying the CEO a greater yacht.
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Jul 29, 2021 21:57
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Space Kablooey posted:Sorry I was on my phone and couldn't remember any specific details at the time. Oh gently caress yeah. This rules.
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Jul 29, 2021 23:04
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•Rogues do it from behind.
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Jul 30, 2021 03:12
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I think a lot of the no monitor, spend thousands to save hundreds etc is you get what you measure. There's no clear way to explain how spending $1000 on 10 new monitors actually increased profits. But it's easy to show you were under budget. Same reason gutting r&d is the move over and over again. Blah blah I saved 3 mil a year, thanks for the bonus. Jumps ship. The fact that the company starts to die due to lack of new products doesn't stick, already gone.
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Jul 30, 2021 03:35
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Automatic Slim posted:Any time a business tells you they're a "family" it's likely an abusive environment. The Duggars are a family. Manson and Jim Jones had a family. "Family" means management and co-workers cross boundaries in ways not tolerated in any other environment. Any time an organization tells you they're like a family, what it actually means is "Do what Mommy and Daddy say or Daddy gets his belt".
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Jul 30, 2021 10:55
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MD has a brainwave: desktops and laptops, are expensive, but thin clients are cheap, so lets replace all desktops and laptops with thin clients. The project starts, it's a poo poo show, every beta tester complains that the clients are slow and poo poo, and productivity is down. MD has committed to the project and has hung his hat on it, so he can't back down. "It'll be fine in Production." Project goes live, it's a poo poo show. "Teething issues". MD shows everyone that he's saved some millions of £ in desktop and laptop costs. MD collects his bonus. MD fucks off to other pastures. 10+ years elapse, the thin clients are still poo poo. New project starts to migrate everyone to laptops. The pandemic happens. Laptops project was deemed a success, thin clients are binned and never spoken of again. How soon till the process repeats itself post the pandemic? I give it 5 years.
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Jul 30, 2021 13:14
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The circle of life.
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Jul 30, 2021 13:19
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People get unreasonably upset if you say in meetings "We did X several years ago. Here are the good and the bad points. We then un-did it for the following reasons. If you want to re-do it, try to think of something new." Especially if their response is "Well we'll do it better!" is met with "they said that last time too." However, at the time I was an underpaid expert, so therefore annoying to fire and about 4x as long-lasting as the typical admin, so nothing came of it.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:48
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Space Kablooey posted:Sorry I was on my phone and couldn't remember any specific details at the time. Not bad if I can drink $50K worth of beer in a year for free
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Jul 30, 2021 15:46
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Especially if you can do it while on the clock
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Jul 30, 2021 15:55
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We've been on Teams for a while but recently I've had some meetings on the calendar I don't always attend. And Teams helpfully brings up a notification for every single chat message, on the laptop and on the phone. And beeps and vibrates to make sure I don't miss anything. I'm sure there's a way to get it to shut up, but there's definitely no obvious way to do it, directly from the notification Steakandchips posted:MD has a brainwave: desktops and laptops, are expensive, but thin clients are cheap, so lets replace all desktops and laptops with thin clients. Man a laptop is like $30 per employee per month and you don't have to pay Bezos anything, how much were they expecting to save?
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Jul 30, 2021 16:48
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Go into the specific chat thread, right-click it and select "Mute" or something like that.
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Jul 30, 2021 17:10
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mobby_6kl posted:We've been on Teams for a while but recently I've had some meetings on the calendar I don't always attend. There might be a cord attached to the back of your computer, pull it out and it'll stop all the annoying distractions.
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Jul 30, 2021 17:58
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mobby_6kl posted:We've been on Teams for a while but recently I've had some meetings on the calendar I don't always attend. Change your status to "Do Not Disturb"
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Jul 30, 2021 18:06
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Required to buy a single Mac (the only one in this branch of the company) and train someone on it for the sake of a single program with dozens of functionally-identical equivalents (many open-source) on Windows, because we gotta use enterprise software we paid for... for the computers nobody has or uses. Everything else they do works through Windows but they're now required to work in the Apple ecosystem instead, because I guess they can't have two computers like most of us with laptops do. IT has also not worked on Macs and are not happy. absolutely proprietary
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Aug 2, 2021 20:06
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Time to install some ransomware on their single point of failure.
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Aug 2, 2021 20:14
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Very light hints about permanent WFH on our conference call today. Boss basically said "we haven't heard anything about getting back to the office, now with this Delta variant stuff, we don't know, we're just following the health department" and some other light concessions. After he told us that he hasn't heard any official word yet I didn't want to come off too excited but I was like "gotcha" but inside I was jumping up and down like a child. I have said it before but I could probably work at this company and do this braindead-easy job for the next 50 years so long as they let me do it from the comfort of a company-bought Herman Miller chair. Maybe I'd even be able to get them to pay for my internet since it's used "for work". Praying that right now the president of our OpCo is typing an email that says "We have decided to indefinitely continue the current work from home for teams working outside the office..." blah blah blah
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Aug 2, 2021 21:23
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Got a new boss who can be a buffer between me and the awful CEO. I've worked with them in the past and good lord what a huge relief not having to report to the CEO anymore. We had a preexisting relationship so they've also shared that most of the other managers and all the other directors were similarly burnt out/on the verge of quitting so it also feels great to be vindicated that it wasn't just me not being able to work with this person.
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Aug 2, 2021 22:07
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AHH F/UGH posted:Maybe I'd even be able to get them to pay for my internet since it's used "for work". I work for a federal research contractor who's usually very progressive and they have been exceptionally supportive of WFH throughout the pandemic and beyond. But in a recent letter about our WFH future, the prospect of paying for Internet was nipped in the bud already. Paraphrasing: paying for your own internet is like paying for your own commute. Both are choices.
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Aug 2, 2021 23:06
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I expense my work internet because it's a separate internet connection from my home internet.
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Aug 2, 2021 23:15
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