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Car Hater posted:It helps to have a good understanding of nuclear physics, but the core of a corporation emits a high-energy decay particle that detaches the things and people exposed to it from reality, the closer you get, the higher your dose http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html
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Sundae posted:Murder. Murder. Other than that initial cup o' piss, they haven't done a single one in 11 years.
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The only time I've ever been drug tested was at a pre-offer screening for a call centre job at a power company. Really loving weird that anyone would bother spending the time and money to do this for a role where your employees are just sitting on their butts getting yelled at by angry customers all day long.
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The more degrading and servile the job, the greater the likelihood that they'll drug test. To be a completely first level, onsite helpdesk person for $14/hr I was drug tested. To become the responsible lead admin for 2000+ lab systems in Research, Manufacturing, and QC for $119k/yr base salary I was not drug tested. Capitalism is a system of worker oppression first, profits are secondary.
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There's also the possibility if the professional classes start getting drug tested they'll raise the issue and it might become illegal
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My employer, fully remote since 2020, is about to enact a return to office. Time to watch a mid size publicly traded company just totally fail.
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SpartanIvy posted:I'm in a huge meeting and some rear end in a top hat said "Good morning" in chat so now I'm suffering through 10 minutes of beeps while other attendees respond with "Good morning". Really this is just a missed opportunity to  See how loud the beeping can get.
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mllaneza posted:The more degrading and servile the job, the greater the likelihood that they'll drug test. To be a completely first level, onsite helpdesk person for $14/hr I was drug tested. To become the responsible lead admin for 2000+ lab systems in Research, Manufacturing, and QC for $119k/yr base salary I was not drug tested. I think at our place, it also has the caveat that the first-level folks are mostly contractors based out of companies that try to claim they aren't in California. Our contractors were all told (by their contract manager, not us) that they are employed in North Carolina and on temp assignments to California. I've pointed out to the ones who apply to me that this logic is horseshit and would not hold up in any California court if push came to shove (but of course that'd be a horrendous burned bridge if they haven't grabbed a FTE position yet). But yeah, as a result, our contractors are drug-tested by their agency while nobody who works for our place is, to the best of my knowledge.
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mllaneza posted:The more degrading and servile the job, the greater the likelihood that they'll drug test. To be a completely first level, onsite helpdesk person for $14/hr I was drug tested. To become the responsible lead admin for 2000+ lab systems in Research, Manufacturing, and QC for $119k/yr base salary I was not drug tested. You can't shift liability for typing a number wrong the same way you can for smashing a forklift into a pallet.
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cum jabbar posted:My employer, fully remote since 2020, is about to enact a return to office. Time to watch a mid size publicly traded company just totally fail. If you want to see a fail, the Canadian government is finally caving to the chamber of Commerce to force public servants back to work a few days a week. Sadly they forgot to as the ultra powerful union if they where down for this
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Sundae posted:I've pointed out to the ones who apply to me that this logic is horseshit and would not hold up in any California court if push came to shove (but of course that'd be a horrendous burned bridge if they haven't grabbed a FTE position yet). I would love to see that agency spit-roasted by both the CA and NC Depts of Labor.
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A LinkedIn recruiter spammed me with a new one today... Underlining is mine... Holy poo poo posted:About This Client  Please, tell me more about establishing the LOW EARTH ORBIT ECONOMY. What if manufacturing, BUT IN SPACE?!?
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Usually on linkedin I get job posts fairly unrelated to my actual work but that one I would take notice, that rules.
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The LinkedIn recruiters I get are usually recruiting pretty close to my skills and experiences, and are not crazy. I see some of the stuff that gets posted in this thread and feel left out. I kind of wish I got stuff pitched to me that I could laugh at. The “best” I have got recently is someone that tried to recruit me for a staff accountant role and I pointed out that I have never made a journal entry and would like to keep it that way.
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Sundae posted:What if manufacturing, BUT IN SPACE?!? I'll be honest, this is actually a pretty rad sales pitch and I would take notice.
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mllaneza posted:I would love to see that agency spit-roasted by both the CA and NC Depts of Labor. Speaking as someone who hires temps in NC, the NC DoL dgaf.
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"There are many products that improve the quality of life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space." I'm really tempted to e-mail the recruiter back and ask her to name one.
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Sundae posted:"There are many products that improve the quality of life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space." A prison for Elon Musk he willingly steps into
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Volmarias posted:A prison for Elon Musk he willingly steps into gently caress... now I'm obligated to apply.
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Dik Hz posted:Speaking as someone who hires temps in NC, the NC DoL dgaf. They'll go bulldog if they think they can claw back some unpaid payroll taxes. Sundae posted:I'm really tempted to e-mail the recruiter back and ask her to name one. They may be sitting on some process patents for small molecule manufacturing, and more on actual molecules. I help support the small molecule group at work, and that is some incredibly finicky poo poo to develop. I completely buy that you can do things in orbit that you can't on the ground. In your shoes I'd pursue it at least to the NDA stage just to find out if they're bullshitting or actually have something.
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Imagine startup culture... in space!
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greazeball posted:Imagine startup culture... in space! I've seen For All Mankind, thanks
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Had my last day on Friday. No one reached out for an exit interview and my manager no-showed our usual scheduled Friday afternoon 1:1. Only thing I got was an automated email from HR asking me to fill out an exit survey that takes 60 seconds.  no, get hosed.Also had my boss ask me earlier in the week to write my feedback for her and my team, "no matter how harsh it may be". I politely declined, I ain't falling for that poo poo. So glad to be done with this company and how utterly unprofessional and chaotic my team has been over the last couple of years. My only real regret is that I didn't bail back when the whole "no more WFH!" incident happened three years ago, but eh, live and learn. I got to add another team/set of skills to my resume, along with a promotion and some money to go with it. So it's not all bad.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Had my last day on Friday. No one reached out for an exit interview and my manager no-showed our usual scheduled Friday afternoon 1:1. Only thing I got was an automated email from HR asking me to fill out an exit survey that takes 60 seconds. Good move on skipping the opportunity to vent. In a couple weeks you'll have moved on and forgotten about it and it would have only served as a potential negative in the future, even if a remote possibility. Zero upside as we all know that nothing will change with your feedback.
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Smithwick posted:The LinkedIn recruiters I get are usually recruiting pretty close to my skills and experiences, and are not crazy. I see some of the stuff that gets posted in this thread and feel left out. I kind of wish I got stuff pitched to me that I could laugh at. I've had people try to recruit me as a swimming instructor before, I guess based on my past life where I worked for state environmental regulatory agency in the water compliance division.
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tactlessbastard posted:My dad has pancreatic cancer It's back with a vengeance (bigger than pre surgery) and he probably won't make it to 2023 
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tactlessbastard posted:It's back with a vengeance (bigger than pre surgery) and he probably won't make it to 2023 I'm sorry to hear that. Be well and spend as much time with him as you can these next several weeks.
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Volmarias posted:You can't shift liability for typing a number wrong the same way you can for smashing a forklift into a pallet. But enough about my place! Sigh after a 3 day weekend I’m probably going to see a good 50 broken pallets tomorrow. And roll up doors. And walls.
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tactlessbastard posted:It's back with a vengeance (bigger than pre surgery) and he probably won't make it to 2023 I'm sorry, that really sucks. I agree with Midjack, I wish I'd spent more time with my dad.
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tactlessbastard posted:It's back with a vengeance (bigger than pre surgery) and he probably won't make it to 2023 Really awful stuff. I hope you get to spend as much time as you can with him, and that time is a comfort to you both.
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tactlessbastard posted:It's back with a vengeance (bigger than pre surgery) and he probably won't make it to 2023 I’m really sorry. I went through the same cancer with my dad a few years ago. Spend as much time as possible with him. I wrote my dad a short letter each day I was there with him and tried to put down a memory I had of being younger and the stuff we did together and things I was thankful for. I think it helped me hold on to as many of those memories as possible.
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Thanks all, I realize this isn't exactly the correct forum for this. Fortunately I only work this week and then I'm off for the rest of the year.
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priznat posted:My boss' boss' boss is having a xmas get together at his place on Friday and the tuesday after I am flying to SJ to go to HQ, I'm definitely gonna get covid at one or the other. Fake a positive test before right before the party Friday. gently caress actually getting covid for those ghouls.
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tactlessbastard posted:Thanks all, I realize this isn't exactly the correct forum for this. Uh... I realize you didn't ask for advice of this nature but in the circumstances, maybe take this week off too?
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Eric has the right idea. Sorry about your dad TB.
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Also don't feel guilty if you need to take a bit of time for yourself. It's ok to need to step out to get lunch by yourself, or leave early a watch a movie at home or something. Spend all the time you can but realize when you're crossing into too much and need a break. Take this week off too, friend.
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I know I'm a little late on this, but re: the drug testing discussion further up the page- I agree that drug testing is stupid, invasive as hell, and shouldn't be a thing (unless you cause some kind of crazy accident while working), but regarding the "it makes no sense that I have to get drug tested for [x] job" stuff, some places do this because they get a discount on their insurance for being a "drug free workplace". I'm not sure what all it takes to qualify for that, but I worked at a startup several years back and the founder hated drug tests, but the board and others involved in the finances of that company made everyone get them so that they could save money by qualifying as a drug free workplace. The requirement at that company was just to have an initial piss test when you were hired and then they only ever tested again if there was some sort of incident (though in practice there were many incidents and they only actually tested people they wanted to fire anyway). It's still bullshit, though.
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Yeah I've worked at a couple of places where there were "random" tests and by some amazing coincidence all of the people who were "randomly" selected to take them were out of favor with management. Other than that I've pretty much never seen any drug tests except at initial hire.
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