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A Stupid Baby posted:Not sure, probably just a nonprofit. It used to be a function of the city here, but got spun off into a nonprofit rumor goes so they could close it as it was "losing money" (aka it was being spent on something that didn't have a fiscal return). It's actually doing really well financially now so I doubt they're going to use this as an excuse, and my current job does have to be done for the place to operate.. so hopefully our department will be okay. The city still is technically the employer of some of the people that work here so that's who's doing the investigating, it isn't at the level of a FBI/IRS thing... yet, or that we know of anyway. If you're a registered charity and you lose that status it's gonna be bad. Or if they give you a pass or you're a regular non profit theres a chance you'll get audited, and assuring there's nothing else sketchy going on (lol), you might get slapped with a bunch of requirements and poo poo and have to walk on eggshells for a year or two until the heat dies down. The system can be really forgiving but it can also be a total dick. I haven't quite figured out how to know in advance. This is for Canada, if you're American I assume someone will bribe someone else and a few employees will be made scapegoats and woodchippered into a lake or nothing will happen because every gov department seems to be underfunded and/or badly managed.
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Just got a bunch of executive emails about the employee engagement survey that will be rolled out in a month. First one since before the pandemic, so I expect it will be a full bore negativity bloodbath. So that’s fun. Lots of cut benefits since then. In addition to the fact that everyone is expecting the current hybrid (2 days a week in the office) to expand sooner rather than later. What’s extra nice is that an email from the CEO was sent around trying to hype it up. Then 15 minutes later, another email that had the exact word for word body text was sent around from both the CEO and COO. Not sure if the assistant forgot to add the COO, or woke up and realized the CEO needs a fall guy for the inevitable bad results.
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Aug 17, 2022 18:13
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I ran into a buddy last week interviewing for a position at the company I work for. I think he'd be a good fit. He's been in the industry for a long time and knows it well, has experience in the same position at another company, as well as a lot of experience in other roles that would interface with this one. He got rejected. They said he wouldn't fit the culture. The only thing we can figure is that he went in expecting WFH because that's what HR told him, and the hiring manager is firmly against it. No one wants to work.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:20
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You might remember me from the thread title, "my boss is unvaccinated and very stupid." Anyway we took the company away from him and he's retired. He also got COVID and almost died. Get your loving shots and do be hostile takeover-ing your job.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:22
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Hell yeah, goons seizing the means of production
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Aug 17, 2022 20:40
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Edward Fingerhands posted:You might remember me from the thread title, "my boss is unvaccinated and very stupid." gently caress yeah. Dumb poo poo your work does - Seizing the means of goonduction
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Edward Fingerhands posted:You might remember me from the thread title, "my boss is unvaccinated and very stupid." lol, who would have guessed?
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LOL, everyone talking about their job and stuff doing these events. Amazon is going back to All Hands meetings now that the pandemic is Ours hasn't been announced yet (our site's annual wage adjustment month is September) but I'm 100% waiting to see if they'll have learned their lesson by them (LOL, expecting corporate to learn lessons) or if I'm just gonna get up midway through and walk out of the meeting.
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Actual sequence that occured during my department's all hands this morning: "A lot of people are leaving the company, either by quitting or being fired. Should I be worried?" My VP: "I mean, you should always be a little worried, this is a private company after all."
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goatface posted:Today we had a second meeting about a recent mandate requiring us back into the office for a % of each week, this time with my group head, who is chair of the division's accommodation committee. Potentially a pro move by the company. First, about half of the staff anger gets dropped on the group head instead of further up. Second, some of the most damaging questions are follow-on ones. Like, "so if you say X, then can we expect Y?" If no-one is able to answer anything about X, it's not possible to pursue any further. I mean sure, the group head will know what's up, and may start looking for another job, but if companies were worried about turnover then they wouldn't be pulling people back to the office.
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Aug 18, 2022 01:35
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Atopian posted:Potentially a pro move by the company. I'm starting to think that companies are conspiring to bring workers back into the office so they can stop people from leaving for remote jobs that pay better or something similar. Less competition in the market is better for the employer, after all. My company is doing everything it can to attract talent and so keeps posting every job it can as remote and gives people the option to be on site if they want. We cut huge numbers at the start of COVID and have to both retain staff and add people to meet our needs, so anything that reduces our appeal is radioactive. Maybe someday we'll have real health benefits, too. Probably not, but I can dream.
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I've been working two remote jobs concurrently since February. The advice on this forum helped. I'm able to get tasks done for both companies quickly with the use of a KVM switch and spend way too much time posting and still manage to go to gym twice a day every weekday. I have an interview for a hybrid job at the end of the month. I think the job, when onsite, would be at the same facility my wife works at. I want to get the new job and maintain both current jobs.
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kntfkr posted:I've been working two remote jobs concurrently since February. The advice on this forum helped. I'm able to get tasks done for both companies quickly with the use of a KVM switch and spend way too much time posting and still manage to go to gym twice a day every weekday. I hate you. Nice.
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kntfkr posted:I've been working two remote jobs concurrently since February. The advice on this forum helped. I'm able to get tasks done for both companies quickly with the use of a KVM switch and spend way too much time posting and still manage to go to gym twice a day every weekday. This is my goal for the next 2-3 years.
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kntfkr posted:I've been working two remote jobs concurrently since February. The advice on this forum helped. I'm able to get tasks done for both companies quickly with the use of a KVM switch and spend way too much time posting and still manage to go to gym twice a day every weekday. At a certain point, just subcontract the jobs you have. Live the dream.
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Aug 18, 2022 08:58
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I wish my job skills were transferable to WFH 
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Alkydere posted:LOL, everyone talking about their job and stuff doing these events. Amazon is going back to All Hands meetings now that the pandemic is From what I can tell, a huge majority of companies are looking at Amazon's success and following their model of how they treat workers and hours as a template, not a cautionary tale. I've been bouncing around the last few years from job to job and the lack of flexibility, ticky tack rules, heavy handed tactics and just general bullshit is very prevalent. Just real draconian poo poo like punching in 3 minutes early or getting back from break 2 minutes late, strict rules about cell phone usage and very rigid scheduling with no room for customization. Stuff like that. One place was actually doing mandated times for bathroom breaks and, well, gently caress that. If I have to go to the bathroom I'm loving going, hall pass or not.
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Aug 18, 2022 13:54
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I've worked one place that actually needed good piss timing control tied to a schedule, and that was because the big machines did not give a poo poo about you or your biology and would get gummed the gently caress up if you disappeared for 5 minutes mid production run. If someone wasn't available to cover your station, you crossed your legs.
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Aug 18, 2022 14:03
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Sounds like a high turnover job.
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It’s all dependent on how much you’re getting paid. If I’m clearing $250k I’m going to have a lot more room in my life for poo poo like bathroom break scheduling than if I’m getting $25k. Edit: that said the low end is what always gets ducked. Unless it s a hard requirement if the job like that machine example above not having draconian, dumb rules is an easy way to attract talent beyond pay. I’d happily take 225k and work in a chill office instead of 250 in an awful one. It’s the jobs that feel like you need them more than they need you that pull that poo poo. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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goatface posted:I've worked one place that actually needed good piss timing control tied to a schedule, and that was because the big machines did not give a poo poo about you or your biology and would get gummed the gently caress up if you disappeared for 5 minutes mid production run. If someone wasn't available to cover your station, you crossed your legs. I have a lot more sympathy for this sort of stuff. "Enormous machine breaks if X is not done" is a lot more persuasive than "rear end in a top hat admin get annoyed if X is not done".
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goatface posted:I've worked one place that actually needed good piss timing control tied to a schedule, and that was because the big machines did not give a poo poo about you or your biology and would get gummed the gently caress up if you disappeared for 5 minutes mid production run. If someone wasn't available to cover your station, you crossed your legs. A lot of this in brewing for sure.
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Aug 18, 2022 14:48
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I'm pissing in a series of bottles labeled "protestant work ethic," "go getter attitude," "100% attendance" if I'm getting scheduled bathroom breaks if they don't otherwise give me a chamber pot.
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Aug 18, 2022 15:27
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Cyrano4747 posted:It’s the jobs that feel like you need them more than they need you that pull that poo poo. Thing is, that's like at least 90% of the jobs even out there. Almost every place I've worked (maybe 3/4 of them) typically act like they are you a doing favor by paying you for your work. "Job Creators" mentality and all that poo poo. Now that companies are implementing more and more "Amazon" rules, suddenly it's "nobody wants to work anymore". Weirder still, most people I hear who say that are people making $12/hour or otherwise on the low end of the income spectrum
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BiggerBoat posted:Thing is, that's like at least 90% of the jobs even out there. Almost every place I've worked (maybe 3/4 of them) typically act like they are you a doing favor by paying you for your work. "Job Creators" mentality and all that poo poo. Now that companies are implementing more and more "Amazon" rules, suddenly it's "nobody wants to work anymore". Get back here! This bucket was good enough for your me and your grandpapa, it'll be good enough for you
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Aug 18, 2022 15:35
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Wasn’t it a thing where some of the strongest supporters against a minimum wage increase are the people making just above minimum wage?
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They worked hard for that increase so they don't like the idea of other people getting it for free.
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goatface posted:They worked hard for that increase so they don't like the idea of other people getting it for free. Big ol' bucket of crabby crabs. gently caress em.
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Aug 18, 2022 16:07
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Like TBF, nobody is policing my toilet breaks, but there are certain points in the process where you can't walk away without causing huge issues.
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Aug 18, 2022 16:42
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Piss in the machine to keep it lubricated.
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Zero One posted:Piss in the machine to keep it lubricated. I don't wanna get 3rd degree burns on my dilz.
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bobjr posted:Wasn’t it a thing where some of the strongest supporters against a minimum wage increase are the people making just above minimum wage? Ended up being the opposite in Ontario when it jumped from $10 to $14. Everyone making $13 was thrilled that they could go work somewhere with better hours or closer to his me with no pay cut.
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Escape From Noise posted:I don't wanna get 3rd degree burns on my dilz. Piss on the machine to cool the port you'll piss is to lubricate the machine.
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Cthulu Carl posted:Piss on the machine to cool the port you'll piss is to lubricate the machine. It's just mostly steam
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Escape From Noise posted:Like TBF, nobody is policing my toilet breaks, but there are certain points in the process where you can't walk away without causing huge issues. I feel like the only jobs I’ve worked at that legitimate had an issue of “people hiding in the toilet on their phone” long enough to maybe warrant a toilet break rule were also super stingy about the mandatory breaks they gave. If a place treats their employees like adults capable of managing their own breaks/lunch/whatever and it’s not all down to the minute shenanigans then you usually end up with a reasonable amount of give and take while all the work gets done. The only exception is smokers, you give them an inch and they will spend a third of the day outside smoking on their phone.
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Escape From Noise posted:Like TBF, nobody is policing my toilet breaks, but there are certain points in the process where you can't walk away without causing huge issues.
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ArbitraryC posted:I feel like the only jobs I’ve worked at that legitimate had an issue of “people hiding in the toilet on their phone” long enough to maybe warrant a toilet break rule were also super stingy about the mandatory breaks they gave. Alternately, join them and smoke a joint then go back to work.
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In all my jobs, whenever non-smokers complain along the lines of 'why do they get to go out for smoke breaks, i don't get to stand outside for a few minutes every hour or two', i've always asked 'have you ever tried?' and the answer is always no.
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