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I just received a very demeaning letter FedEx’d to my home from the job I left 4 months ago, reminding me of the confidentiality and non-disclosure forms I signed when I was hired in 2014, and happily explained that they would seek immediate legal action if they suspected I had violated the agreement. “But we hope that won’t be necessary” indeed. Go gently caress yourselves.
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evilpicard posted:When my company had to recapitalize during wave1 they gave us all a 6 month deadline to use vacation time, "because we think pandemic will be over then and we'll be so busy there won't be any time for vacations!" My company didn't put a timeline on using vacation in 2020, but that was largely because we have a use-it-or-lose-it policy. Every year on January 1st no matter how much time we had left on December 31st our vacation time is instantly the hours we're supposed to have based on how long we've been there. It means the company has zero concern if we don't take our time off. Apparently no one took vacation time in 2020 and so the company automatically rolled over a week, or whatever you had left if it was under a week, for 2021. At the end of last year we all got an email announcing that the policy wouldn't continue into 2022, which I think is the company's way of telling us things are going back to pre-pandemic this year even if a 9/11 of people are dying each day. Save for Work From Home, that seems to be sticking around. I signed up for a refreshed laptop a few weeks ago and checked the status yesterday. It's listed as "building." These are off the rack Dells that they literally keep in a vending machine in our tech support center. I'm very confused.
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Feb 18, 2022 13:46
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FreshFeesh posted:I just received a very demeaning letter FedEx’d to my home from the job I left 4 months ago, reminding me of the confidentiality and non-disclosure forms I signed when I was hired in 2014, and happily explained that they would seek immediate legal action if they suspected I had violated the agreement. It's FedEx so they probably sent it 3 months ago
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Feb 18, 2022 14:31
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sounds like someone hosed up and then they sent a reminder so everyone who fucks up will easily get fired. I have to read a conduct training every year.. attest I read it and am presented with any handbook changes.
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Feb 18, 2022 15:02
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Lazyfire posted:
Probably pre-loading it with all your company specific software and user profile poo poo etc.
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Feb 18, 2022 20:21
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Rasputin on the Ritz posted:Probably pre-loading it with all your company specific software and user profile poo poo etc. If it's anything like the people who took over our PC deployment management, they're also trying to figure out what the gently caress just broke on this new image because the people who make the image can't be bothered to test that everything works. Well, that's not entirely fair. They leave the "Figure out what's broken" part to us and then declare that it's not effecting everyone, so it's just break/fix we can handle... Even if it's a couple hundred computers deployed to our area of responsibility and the fix takes about an hour.
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Feb 18, 2022 20:27
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They just paid me a full bonus and a 9k raise, what idiots!
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Feb 19, 2022 01:42
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Killswitch posted:They just paid me a full bonus and a 9k raise, what idiots! Yeah, they should have given you more! Idiots!
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Feb 19, 2022 03:17
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Killswitch posted:They just paid me a full bonus and a 9k raise, what idiots! Our stock price has doubled since 2020 even though we've actually been selling less poo poo and have been hosed by the semiconductor shortage and they're actually paying out bonuses at 200% this year. I was already planning on dropping the entire bonus on the mortgage principal, but now we have extra to get some work done too.
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Feb 19, 2022 03:36
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Rasputin on the Ritz posted:Probably pre-loading it with all your company specific software and user profile poo poo etc. The battery on my wife's laptop started expanding a few months back (like, the keyboard/mouse area of her laptop was developing a bump) and they moved everything to a new computer in 20 minutes. We work for the same company so I know they could do the same for me. If they asked me to show up with my current laptop and move everything to a new one I would be there tomorrow, this thing is four years old and likes to bluescreen if I dare shut it down or restart. It also likes to disconnect from the VPN at the exact moment meetings are starting, which takes about five minutes to fix on its own or about two if you notice there's a problem. I reset the VPN five minutes before my interview today to try to keep that from happening at the worst possible time. VPN disconnected in the 45 seconds between the interview and the next meeting.
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Feb 19, 2022 06:47
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The obvious answer is to steal your coworkers laptop.
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Feb 19, 2022 07:58
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Lazyfire posted:The battery on my wife's laptop started expanding a few months back (like, the keyboard/mouse area of her laptop was developing a bump) This is how you get baby laptops.
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Feb 19, 2022 09:11
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McGavin posted:This is how you get baby laptops. Fertilisation can be a challenge though, since a casual glance at the port configuration will reveal that the vast majority of worker laptops are female.
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Feb 19, 2022 09:20
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Atopian posted:Fertilisation can be a challenge though, since a casual glance at the port configuration will reveal that the vast majority of worker laptops are female. IT, uh, finds a way
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Feb 19, 2022 09:52
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Barudak posted:IT, uh, finds a way Just use a male to male adapter 
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Feb 19, 2022 10:04
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mobby_6kl posted:Just use a male to male adapter Requiem for a dream but he's saying USB to USB
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Feb 19, 2022 10:05
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StrangersInTheNight posted:But there's literally 1099 contractors and W2 contractors I was a W-2 contractor ! In my case the host The design studio I worked for got bit by the NY Labor Board over treating 1099 contractors like employees (Do work for XCorp, on an XCorp schedule, at an XCorp facility, with XCorp equipment, as supervised by an XCorp employee, with an XCorp email address, to XCorp policies and standards, etc etc etc). After that, contractors 100% did not get a company laptop, email address, or phone number.
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Feb 19, 2022 11:05
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Atopian posted:Fertilisation can be a challenge though, since a casual glance at the port configuration will reveal that the vast majority of worker laptops are female. Something something keyboard goop
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Feb 19, 2022 16:34
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SkyeAuroline posted:Interviewing for new positions. Likely candidate position comes up, they're just about ready to make an offer as long as I come in for an in-person interview, but they haven't mentioned PTO at all (while touching on holidays and sick time). Asked about it directly. Calling back on this - interviewed with them because they were available during my time off, and interviewing without taking the offer doesn't really hurt & gives useful experience. 20 minutes from start of interview to admission they're discriminating on candidates based on a protected class (that they probably assumed I'd support since it was favorable to me). Like... why would you admit that to a candidate, let alone one you haven't even given an offer to yet? The rest was enough demonstration not to take the offer, but took effort to suppress a comment on that one.
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Feb 19, 2022 17:23
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SkyeAuroline posted:Calling back on this - interviewed with them because they were available during my time off, and interviewing without taking the offer doesn't really hurt & gives useful experience. Just Old Fashioned Owner things, OP.
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Feb 19, 2022 17:26
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SkyeAuroline posted:Calling back on this - interviewed with them because they were available during my time off, and interviewing without taking the offer doesn't really hurt & gives useful experience. Report them. They're gonna keep doing it.
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Feb 19, 2022 17:43
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Something something keyboard goop I remember opening that thread at work Fortunately, only me and the lab technician (who happens to be one of my best friends) were in the office, but gently caress me, I’ve never closed a window so fast as when I scrolled down to the action
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Feb 19, 2022 23:31
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Scientastic posted:I remember opening that thread at work Coward
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Feb 19, 2022 23:43
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mllaneza posted:I was a W-2 contractor ! In my case the host I was placed through a big staffing agency to what was supposed to be a temp-to-hire job, but the host company kept kicking the actual hiring down the road so I had all the duties and responsibilities of one of their actual employees in the exact same position but none of the benefits. They also had mandatory overtime that they kept insisting was temporary but it never loving ended. The staffing agency would have one of their reps come through sometimes and nod and smile but actually avoid discussing anything with me. This was in a call center, so the one time the fucker came over to talk to me I got a call so had to work, and he gestured to suggest we'd talk later, then never interacted with me again. If I emailed the staffing agency they would say I needed to talk to the host company, and if I emailed the host company they would say I needed to talk to the staffing agency. It was absurd. Eventually I got fed up and just stopped working the mandatory overtime, and started taking hour-long lunches, which was my original schedule at this place. I figured someone would notice and talk to me, but day after day, week after week went by and I kept clocking in and out on my old schedule and nobody said a drat thing. It was Kafka-esque going in every day expecting to have a supervisor confront me, and every day having nobody comment on the fact I was not following their mandatory overtime rules. This went on for months. By the end I was so burned out and had decided to exit that I didn't file any complaints with the labor board, I just more or less called in until I simply stopped going. Oh, and about halfway through my employment there the host company was bought out by IBM, which definitely did not improve things.
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Feb 19, 2022 23:53
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SkyeAuroline posted:Calling back on this - interviewed with them because they were available during my time off, and interviewing without taking the offer doesn't really hurt & gives useful experience. What did they admit to?
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Beartaco posted:What did they admit to? Only considering male applicants for the position (that has absolutely no qualities to need that) despite women applying as well. Not even considering the latter. ... as explained at some length by the two women doing the interview. Seemed pretty clear cut to me, but unfortunately didn't think to record that interview until it was already underway - I normally just record phone calls, didn't expect to need to record in-person this time. Would just be my word against theirs trying to report it. (I'm not out IRL, so they would have probably seen it as a "benefit" for me, despite that it's very much... not a benefit to be seen that way, even setting aside any legal aspect.)
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Crossposting from the schadenfreude thread:Sanctum posted:Yeah oh my god I remember getting an approved vacation months in advance, reminding the supervisors and the duty manager before leaving, and saying goodbye to everyone. First day on vacation I got an urgent text from the general manager saying UAX has no supervisor right now and I am needed immediately. I just replied with a picture of me climbing up a mountain in another state and the words "Sorry on vacation." I went out of cell phone range and when I got back at the end of the day my phone exploded with 100+ texts and missed calls from panicked group chats and co-workers asking if I was going to quit/be fired.
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Takes No Damage posted:Crossposting from the schadenfreude thread: That's like 90% of workplaces. I took 10 days off in December and even though I was monitoring emails I'm still not back on track because of it and the holiday season. Still way behind on a bunch of reporting.
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Takes No Damage posted:Crossposting from the schadenfreude thread: quote:once they calmed down they would realize there's no way they can blame me for going on an approved vacation. The problem is staffing and that is solely their fault. You idiots. You fools. 
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Takes No Damage posted:Crossposting from the schadenfreude thread:
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Feb 22, 2022 10:32
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Is the company dumb for only hiring minimum staff or the person who works so much that they don’t see a reason to hire more people?
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Invalid Validation posted:Is the company dumb for only hiring minimum staff or the person who works so much that they don’t see a reason to hire more people? The company is dumb for not preventing the possibility of one man's absence leading to a cascade failure.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:31
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Answer: capitalism is bad.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:36
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The mistake was approving the leave request in the first place
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Feb 22, 2022 18:50
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A Festivus Miracle posted:Answer: capitalism is bad. This is always the answer. Yeah,it's the company's fault for letting themselves get onto a bus factor 1 state. gently caress em
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Welp, we just got the official "easing of COVID restrictions" email from HR and if they think that's going to stop me from wearing a mask in the office they're nuts. If I could turn my desk into a clean room, I would. I absolutely do not trust any of these motherfuckers not to get me sick with a cold, let alone COVID. ... sorry if that was incoherent. We've been back in the office for just over a week and the only effects I've noticed on our overall performance is "things are worse and they've taken more of our problem-solving tools away for no reason." We were doing better working from home than in the office, except now when we have conflicts we can just yell right at each other
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Dr. Gargunza posted:Welp, we just got the official "easing of COVID restrictions" email from HR and if they think that's going to stop me from wearing a mask in the office they're nuts. If I could turn my desk into a clean room, I would. I absolutely do not trust any of these motherfuckers not to get me sick with a cold, let alone COVID. I don't think I trust anyone without a harried, concerned or anxious look on their face these days.
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Outrail posted:The obvious answer is to steal your coworkers laptop. I feel the better answer is to know where IT hold their stock of poorly inventoried laptops. It would be a bloody shame if some unauthorised/unnoticed person could access said laptops.
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Feb 22, 2022 22:22
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I already told management that Im going to be masking up for a good long while, local mandates be damned.
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Embrace the end times and declare yourself pestilence.
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