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slurm posted:Really how bad can a job be if you can do it in sweatpants Ask the guys at the dick-sucking factory about casual Fridays
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New pay increase offer came through. The way it works is different increases for different pay grades, in practice the way its applied means that a person on the pay tier below me would end up making about $800 a year more than me, I'd end up making about $250 a year more than someone one step up the rung from me.
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Feb 14, 2023 22:04
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Dang. A fresh young hire mentioned watching a coworker who’s been there 20+ years be asked to make a simple Excel sheet, and watched as they took out a piece of paper, ruler, and pen and got to work. If they've been employed doing that for 20 years, they're smarter than anyone here. TotalLossBrain posted:Ask the guys at the dick-sucking factory about casual Fridays Find a job that you like, and you'll never work a day in your life.
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Feb 14, 2023 22:10
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I think you're more likely to get fired for screwing something up than not getting enough done. So when you spend three weeks doing what takes a competent person three hours, you screw fewer things up over time. Clever. Or cunning? Very low cunning.
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Feb 14, 2023 22:39
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in my experience larger companies will basically do anything to avoid firing people outright unless they really explicitly gently caress up or are actively terrible to their peers/customers/whatever and instead just wait for the next round of layoffs as an opportunity to ax underperformers (that's for employees. contractors are much more expendable)
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Feb 14, 2023 22:52
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carrionman posted:New pay increase offer came through. Is it just that the lower level people are getting bigger raises? Or has the company somehow inverted (very slightly) the pay structure?
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Feb 14, 2023 23:25
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Escape From Noise posted:Milling unmalted wheat is a pain in the rear end. God, that poo poo sounds like loving gravel going through the mill, it's ridiculous. But tasty.
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Feb 14, 2023 23:31
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Bored posted:And why the gently caress will nobody give me a job?!? A lot of the time management will have been in their position for so long that they know how the previous system (or the one before that) operated and feel more threatened by someone coming in and understanding what they are doing. It freaks them out that someone with any ambition may come along and ruin their fiefdom. I've been lucky since I got here in that all my supervisors were either proficient in what I'm doing and could see I was just trying to do my job well or knew I was there for a specific function and not really a threat to their job. I've worked places where any ambition or acknowledgement that you would want to expand your horizons would be met with hostility and suspicion.
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Feb 14, 2023 23:59
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RocketMermaid posted:God, that poo poo sounds like loving gravel going through the mill, it's ridiculous. But tasty. Yeah, it definitely scared me a bit. Fortunately I just had to mill 50kg.
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Feb 15, 2023 00:16
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my dumb job posted:We will provide you with a letter so that you nay notify your employee of their resignation.
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Feb 15, 2023 01:21
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Do you work at the glue factory or the dog food factory?
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Feb 15, 2023 01:27
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Cthulu Carl posted:Do you work at the glue factory or the dog food factory? My guess is Twitter
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Feb 15, 2023 01:45
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You nay tell your employee pull their hair back, but they didn't
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Feb 15, 2023 01:50
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So a couple of years ago my company switched payroll providers, to UKG. We had it for one year, and it was so hated that last year we switched to Paycom. Recently, I did my taxes, and was shocked to find that I somehow owed $1400 to the feds and $300 to the state. No idea why, I always choose the least/zero allowances. Today I asked a colleague in our Finance dept why I owed so much money out of the blue. Her best guess is that my W4 info didn't migrate correctly from UKG to Paycom, and somehow what should have been a 0 or 1 became a 2.
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Feb 15, 2023 02:10
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UKG is pure dogshit. i have to have two different apps to use it and the functions are just randomly split between them 
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Feb 15, 2023 02:37
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Something is playing just the first 7 notes of the Harry Potter theme randomly every 2-5 minutes and it’s driving me crazy, play the whole song or don’t.
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Feb 15, 2023 02:56
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Despite a grain bill of 50% unmalted wheat runoff is going pretty smooth on the witbier today! 
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Feb 15, 2023 04:16
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Oh gently caress. Manual grain out was heavy. At least not as gloopy as oatmeal.
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Feb 15, 2023 06:39
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I was expecting a nightmare today with the Belgian Wit but things actually went really smoothly! only injury sustained was from grabbing a tea from the refrigerator at the convenience store and somehow skinning my thumb on the way out.
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Feb 15, 2023 09:23
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Lol, my job just opened a posting in the program office for someone to fix all the poo poo I've been complaining about. Seems like bait.
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Feb 15, 2023 12:47
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:So a couple of years ago my company switched payroll providers, to UKG. We had it for one year, and it was so hated that last year we switched to Paycom. Uh oh. WE just moved to UKG not too long ago. FOrtunately, if they gently caress up my withholding it should only be over a couple of months but, yeah, nobody is happy with the software and for some reason I can't sign into it on my laptop. Only my phone.
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Feb 15, 2023 13:04
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Doing taxes in the US is a loving nightmare.
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Feb 15, 2023 13:45
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Well my fellow goons, I am happy to report that I landed that sweet job 10 minutes from home. Just waiting on the updated offer letter after asking and being granted an extra week of vacation, then I can give my sweet, sweet notice of resignation. I'm positively giddy, especially as the new job is a 41% raise, offers hybrid work, 401k matching, and much more interesting work to do. Slow motion death spiral continues at my soon to be former employer. They hired a technical writer three weeks ago and I found out yesterday through the grapevine she's already been fired, no idea as to why. Lead engineer on my project was about ready to bail this past weekend but was talked out of it, I don't imagine he'll stay much longer once I leave. I've been encouraging the other drafter to GTFO, and he has begun the job search in earnest. He isn't too worried as his previous employer stated he'd be happy to take him back any time. The super-long lead, very expensive piece of custom test equipment finally was delivered on Monday, and its absolute garbage. Wobbly welds, lopsided pressure vessel, grinder marks everywhere. I told them to request the certifications of the vendor's welders, a leak test certification, and the WPS's for this thing. Turns out they failed to require or specify any of that in the contract, so they're up a creek with a quarter-million dollar paperweight that took a year to get made. I also found out they've been trying to hire another engineer for 5 months, and have had to revise the job posting twice due to lack of applicants. In short, lmao.
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Feb 15, 2023 14:49
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Super Waffle posted:Well my fellow goons, I am happy to report that I landed that sweet job 10 minutes from home. Just waiting on the updated offer letter after asking and being granted an extra week of vacation, then I can give my sweet, sweet notice of resignation. I'm positively giddy, especially as the new job is a 41% raise, offers hybrid work, 401k matching, and much more interesting work to do. gently caress yeah! gently caress 'em up! Also lmfao
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Feb 15, 2023 14:51
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Super Waffle posted:. Turns out they failed to require or specify any of that in the contract, so they're up a creek with a quarter-million dollar paperweight that took a year to get made. LMFAO jesus christ whoever was in charge of procuring that needs to . . . well, I'm not a fan of saying that people should lose their jobs, but at the very least they need to not be writing contracts for equipment.
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Feb 15, 2023 14:55
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TotalLossBrain posted:I like to call it Toobin Time #metoobin Not actively looking for a new job myself but I've been doing interviews anyway to "practice" (and who knows, maybe something great will come along!) but I had a disaster of an interview last week. First, on MS Teams, thank goodness audio only. Second, the interview panel was having trouble w/ mics and headset (and so was I., wound up using my gaming headset since my other one wasn't working). Third, one of the panel members was late, so they had to record the interview, then she showed up in the middle of me talkinng about the first question so that threw anything off. Fourth, they read six questions from a script like robots, only answered "Hmm.." when I was interviewing. And finally they ran out of time and instead of saying, "Oh, let's extend this interview a few minutes because this dude obviously has questions" they just ended it and said they'd shoot me an email with everyone's contact info if I had any questions. Then silence... I hate interviews like that, if you're just polling me for answers let me take a test or whatever. No personality, no off subject banter, etc. I figured I bombed it but the director reached out to me yesterday for a second interview. (?!?!) Wound up declining because I could already tell the new position would be a nightmare and if this is how they work for interviews, how would they be as supervisors? Another case where the company doesn't understand that an interview goes both ways.
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Feb 15, 2023 15:22
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Site wide email yesterday: "We are not under a boil water advisory but we have bottled water available anyway" Today after I get my coffee: "Since we still under the boil water advisory, we have bottled water available"
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Feb 15, 2023 15:55
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Escape From Noise posted:Doing taxes in the US is a loving nightmare. gently caress. I forgot about that. Every year I forget about America's lovely tax laws.
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Feb 15, 2023 16:13
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Outrail posted:gently caress. I forgot about that. Every year I forget about America's lovely tax laws. I still have to file in the US. It's always such a headache.
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Feb 15, 2023 16:14
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Salami Surgeon posted:Site wide email yesterday: "We are not under a boil water advisory but we have bottled water available anyway" At least the coffee was presumably heated during preparation. Maybe even long and high enough to be safe, if you're lucky?
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Feb 15, 2023 16:17
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Escape From Noise posted:I still have to file in the US. It's always such a headache. That seems so weirdly spiteful - is there any official reason why the US insists on everyone having to file taxes there forever (unless they rescind their citizenship)?
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Feb 15, 2023 16:20
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Computer viking posted:That seems so weirdly spiteful - is there any official reason why the US insists on everyone having to file taxes there forever (unless they rescind their citizenship)? Grabbing as much money as possible from the underclass so we don't have to tax the rich. Also the IRS will audit a dude making 50k a year and give them consequences, but not billionaires.
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Feb 15, 2023 16:29
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lmao production ended on SMD Line 2 yesterday morning, and production will end on SMD Line 1 sometime early tomorrow morning on 3rd or 1st shift. Permanently. A week ahead of schedule. Wave soldering maybe has 4-6 8 hour shifts left before it reaches end-of-life. There is maybe enough work to keep us all there another week and a half. My meeting about severance paperwork with HR is at 5:30 in the morning next Thursday, and there is a good chance there will be no work for me or the other guy I'm supposed to stay on with until March 17. We're legit 2-3 weeks ahead of the permanent shutdown schedule. Oh well, I gave people a hard date of March 17 for when I'm free, our cat is getting spayed on the 28th and I have no qualms about being a stay at home husband for a few weeks before I jump back into the nightshift manufacturing game. Gonna miss the best job I ever had.
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Verdugo posted:Grabbing as much money as possible from the underclass so we don't have to tax the rich. Also the IRS will audit a dude making 50k a year and give them consequences, but not billionaires. Do you still pay taxes to the US if you're resident and paying taxes in another country, or do you just send them a bunch of forms that work out to "zero taxable income or property in the US"? In the latter case it seems a bit wasteful even from the IRS' side.
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Feb 15, 2023 16:32
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pretty sure if you are a US citizen living abroad long term you have to pay taxes to both countries
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Feb 15, 2023 16:36
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I'm working with someone who sends emails like this:
 I was more professional posting on internet forums as a teenager, and this is a grown woman.
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Feb 15, 2023 16:38
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William Bear posted:I'm working with someone who sends emails like this: how in the gently caress does anyone deal with that poo poo, ever it's beyond me and I can't ever work whatever job you do after nearly a decade in actual production manufacturing
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Feb 15, 2023 16:53
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Computer viking posted:That seems so weirdly spiteful - is there any official reason why the US insists on everyone having to file taxes there forever (unless they rescind their citizenship)? It seems to me that the benefit of our citizenship system is that our citizenship carries substantial benefits/protections and as a cost, you pay tax. You can always return and get access to Medicare, social security, etc. Not saying right or wrong, I'm sure expats would appreciate a tax break.
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If my employer ever needs me to explain why I'm completely inflexible on remote work, I can now point them to their own HR email that says they've dropped any COVID vaccination requirements on job postings or onboarding in an effort to boost recruitment
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thathonkey posted:pretty sure if you are a US citizen living abroad long term you have to pay taxes to both countries Short answer, yes, but there are a lot of caveats to that. First off, there is a foreign tax credit. Anything you payed in foreign taxes can be taken as a deduction on your income, which lowers your American tax burden. There is also a foreign earned income exclusion that covers up to ~$100k of income, but you have to have spent the vast majority of the year (11 months I think) abroad. The tl;dr is that if you're something like an ESL teacher, no, you're not getting double taxed on your pay, but you have some way more complicated returns and you may want to hire someone to do them for you. Or not, depending on how much you trust your own work with that. I forget what the order of operations is for the foreign tax credit and the foreign earned income exclusion, but I'm pretty sure the FTC applies first. So let's say you're living in Germany. There's a progressive income tax there that tops out at ~40% at ~60k Euro (well, it really tops out at 45% for the really high earners, but the bit ramp up happens in the 50s iirc. It's kinda poo poo how low the curve starts flattening out, to be frank). If you're making 75k Euro and having that eaten down to 45k by taxes, your American taxable burden is about ~$45k (1 dollar = 1.07 Euro right now which make this easy), which means you're well under the foreign earned income exclusion. So in our German scenario you really only start getting taxed on income over about $175,000 (because the German taxes drop it down to <$100k), and you're only getting double-taxed on income above that threshold. Which sucks, but it makes it a problem for relatively high earners and to be honest if you've got some foreign company that wants to pay you $200k+ to work for them chances are you are in a situation where you have access to the kinds of financial professionals who can figure out additional ways to minimize your tax burden. Maybe pay you through a subsidiary in the US or something. Once you're in the realm of high earner problems a lot of opportunities open up that aren't there for your typical ESL teacher or, I would presume, Japanese brewer. edit: It's annoying when you're dealing with this poo poo, but to be frank some of it is kind of needed and necessary. You don't want someone who's lived in Europe for their entire adult lives and paid effectively zero income tax drawing social security, for example, but it's also lovely to tell that same person to pound sand and eat cat food if they move back to the US in their 70s. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Feb 15, 2023 |
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