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Combo posted:So my boss (owner of the company) has gotten into the habit of wanting to hire people without giving them an actual role and then just like...finding out where they fit in the company? That might be ok I guess but he's also in his late 40s, dating a girl in her late 20s, who is a bartender in a trendy area and has bartender/server friends/roommates/etc. Give him your job
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Combo posted:So my boss (owner of the company) has gotten into the habit of wanting to hire people without giving them an actual role and then just like...finding out where they fit in the company? That might be ok I guess but he's also in his late 40s, dating a girl in her late 20s, who is a bartender in a trendy area and has bartender/server friends/roommates/etc. Is your boss season 6 Michael Scott?
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YeahTubaMike posted:Is your boss season 6 Michael Scott? I haven't seen The Office but maybe, I don't know. I'm secure where I'm at, I make decent money, I'm incredibly valuable to the company and valued by my boss and everyone else, so I'm not like going anywhere or anything, it's just sometimes the owner tosses out a curveball and expects people to deal with it, and I guess it's my turn.
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Apr 21, 2023 19:24
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Our company just redesigned our logo and color scheme. It looks like rear end, and they sent employees a bunch of free stuff with the new logo on it. I liked the old look. 
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Apr 21, 2023 20:12
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For my 15-year work anniversary, I got $25 credit at the online store. I got a 35-year pin.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:55
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I've been seeing dumb points handed out as employee rewards more and more. You redeem them at some online portal for cheap plastic poo poo. I guess you can get nice stuff if you save points for 30 years, maybe. I keep getting reminder emails to spend my points. I've looked at the site twice and it's such horrendous carny prize garbage. You can get nice company branded poo poo too, but you have to buy that from the company store lol TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Apr 21, 2023 20:58
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TotalLossBrain posted:I've been seeing dumb points handed out as employee rewards more and more. You redeem them at some online portal for cheap plastic poo poo. We get taxed on them at my company so I opted out of the program.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:04
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Takes No Damage posted:Proud member of the TRC Technically Robbing Crew All caught up on everything, just shitposting and eating leftover event pizza while being ready for anything.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I've been seeing dumb points handed out as employee rewards more and more. You redeem them at some online portal for cheap plastic poo poo. Yeah, everything they sell is a shittier version of some product I already own.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:We get taxed on them at my company so I opted out of the program. This also makes them a big dumb options program for penny amounts because you're usually accruing like $10s of dollars a year and cashing out for a sweet $50 frying pan 5 years in and just get the tax hit in year 5. See, the company is helping you out by not giving you real bonuses.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:11
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I don't get why companies obsess over work-based social media. My work just implemented one and it's not exactly taking off. It just seems like a trap to me, if I spend a lot of time on the social media thing then I'm not working and they can just fire me or overload me with more work.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:12
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Cowman posted:I don't get why companies obsess over work-based social media. My work just implemented one and it's not exactly taking off. It just seems like a trap to me, if I spend a lot of time on the social media thing then I'm not working and they can just fire me or overload me with more work. Company classifieds can be cool ime.
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Cowman posted:I don't get why companies obsess over work-based social media. My work just implemented one and it's not exactly taking off. It just seems like a trap to me, if I spend a lot of time on the social media thing then I'm not working and they can just fire me or overload me with more work.
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Cowman posted:I don't get why companies obsess over work-based social media. My work just implemented one and it's not exactly taking off. It just seems like a trap to me, if I spend a lot of time on the social media thing then I'm not working and they can just fire me or overload me with more work. I do. It's a loving honeypot. It costs gently caress-all to implement, and if you're lucky that person you want to get rid of but haven't found a good reason yet will post something that lets you shitcan them. gently caress, even with your good employees. Bob from accounting who's great posted something really eyebrow raising? Well, you don't HAVE to fire him, but let's keep that in our back pocket for when he needs to get cut loose in a few years.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:47
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Basically you're a loving moron if you're not doing any and all online social media stuff at a bare minimum pseudo-anonymously. I mean, gently caress, how many people have blown up their lives over a loving tweet? It's funny as hell when it's some neo nazi rear end in a top hat loving around and finding out, less so when it's a trans woman expressing that she would defend herself. I can not loving begin to understand people who basically shitpost on Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and Nextdoor under their real names, much less Corporate Social.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:53
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Combo posted:So I interview this guy. It's a QC role but we do a lot of electrical troubleshooting, calibrations, etc, so it's not something just anyone can walk in and do. This guy is a bartender, in his first semester of school to be an electrician (literally in a 101 class I think at the moment), a musician on the side also. So he goes to school until noon, works as a bartender in the evenings, and has side gigs in the area at local bars as a musician. His availability is like twice a week in the afternoon. He's not going to be useful to me for a very, very long time. Boss is bound and determined to hire him for *something* though, and wants me to manage him. Sounds like you just picked up a staff engagement and retainment specialist (fill the mail cart with booze and a DJ set). What are the de jour swag item for corporate bullshit lately? For us it's insulated water bottles and mugs. After having just the one lovely bottle and mug/cup for literally years, in the last few months I've picked up four insulated mugs (two yetis and another that's loving awsome), plus at least two water bottles. Probaly $150 worth of water containers. wtf I was looking into decent swag options and now I need a new item to beg from donors. What dumb bullshit can I slap a label on that people will actually want to receive? Complication: I can't put the logo on money. Outrail fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Oh god my wife’s office has her swimming in those. We have a literal yeti cupboard. Like fifteen of the loving things easily.
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Apr 21, 2023 22:17
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If the Yeti cups came with the stickers an instructions etc in them. If didn't have another company's logo, I'd take them to a store and try to get a refund.
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Cthulu Carl posted:That's when you copy-paste from the email, but do it just enough to show that you're copying and pasting from the email.  e: TotalLossBrain posted:I've been seeing dumb points handed out as employee rewards more and more. You redeem them at some online portal for cheap plastic poo poo. Oof. At least my company points let me buy a Visa/Amazon card so they can actually be useful. I brought my Drake posted:All caught up on everything, just shitposting and eating leftover event pizza while being ready for anything. Coding my time as Available. I won't be elaborating or taking questions. Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Apr 21, 2023 22:25
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We got a reflective slap bracelet to keep us alive through the winter, and they filled up the lounge with branded coffee cups. We were actually running low on cups, so ... sure? These ones are even a size that fits in the coffee machine, so I'm not complaining.
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Those work rewards remind me about the time I took an easy a college course that was called entrepreneurship. It was taught by a very rich guy that taught the class just to make himself seem smart. He made his millions by basically creating computer scantrons back in the olden days. It was a lot of jerking off how entrepreneurs are just so driven and smart. His current at the time multimillion dollar business was a reward system for companies to give points to employees that could spin a digital wheel and win prizes. It was hooked up to like credit card companies and poo poo. I’m sure it was used to not pay employees better. He would also take apprentices from the university if he liked you enough. One of them came to speak for a class and was making a bunch of money selling stock images and we had to sit through that thing like it was the most innovative idea in the world. Man what a piece of poo poo that guy was, trying to pass off being super lucky as if it was just something he was born with and you just couldn’t teach. Wish I could remember his name cause I wanna see what other dumb poo poo idea made him millions.
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Invalid Validation posted:Those work rewards remind me about the time I took an easy a college course that was called entrepreneurship. It was taught by a very rich guy that taught the class just to make himself seem smart. He made his millions by basically creating computer scantrons back in the olden days. It was a lot of jerking off how entrepreneurs are just so driven and smart. His current at the time multimillion dollar business was a reward system for companies to give points to employees that could spin a digital wheel and win prizes. It was hooked up to like credit card companies and poo poo. I’m sure it was used to not pay employees better. Elon Musk
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Invalid Validation posted:Those work rewards remind me about the time I took an easy a college course that was called entrepreneurship. Powerful MLM energy. Like, every single part of this smells like an MLM
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ben shapino posted:Elon Musk Post/avatar combo on point  Outrail posted:Powerful MLM energy. Like, every single part of this smells like an MLM Back in the early '00s a friend and her BF got caught up on one of those and invited me to a recruitment meeting. I didn't realize what it was so I went. Was pretty loving cult-y, lots of nonsense words and numbers on projector slides that didn't add up. Once all the 'recruits' left they immediately had a members-only meeting where the speaker yelled at them all for not pulling in enough new bodies for the bottom of the pyramid. When I got home I Googled them and saw all the MLM stuff and noped out, but didn't have the balls to tell my friend she was being duped by a scam
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It was legitimate unfortunately. Like he partnered with some credit cards and he made a front end for corporations to send their employees to spin a wheel and win prizes. I’m sure it was in lieu of actual bonuses or pay raises. It was very see how fun we are? You get to play games on company time! I don’t know if it’s still around, probably not cause I doubt any company wants to spend the money on frivolous poo poo for their employees instead of just grinding them to dust.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I've been seeing dumb points handed out as employee rewards more and more. You redeem them at some online portal for cheap plastic poo poo. We can send another FTE up to 50 points without manager approval. These correlate 1:1 with $USD. The store has VISA gift cards, computers, air travel and hotel stays. In 3.5 years I have 2250 points and you better believe I have vacation plans involving them.
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Combo posted:I'm secure where I'm at, I make decent money, I'm incredibly valuable to the company and valued by my boss and everyone else, so I'm not like going anywhere or anything, it's just sometimes the owner tosses out a curveball and expects people to deal with it, and I guess it's my turn. Trust me when I say this: EVERYONE thinks this right at the moment you get fired. If you're that valuable you would be getting paid more somewhere else. Because any owner who does that, will toss our a curveball of you losing it, and expect you to deal with it. Sorry about the bad news
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I'm glad my employer avoids all of this point nonsense by giving us zero perks or incentives whatsoever.
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Comstar posted:Trust me when I say this: EVERYONE thinks this right at the moment you get fired. If you're that valuable you would be getting paid more somewhere else. Well, column A, column B. In that, it's quite possible to truly be incredible value and be incredibly valued, but still be underpaid and then fired, because organisations with competent management pursuing the stated legitimate goals of the organisation are uncommon. It's best not to be too secure because there is no chain of reason or logic that can make you safe from a fundamentally broken, unreasonable system.
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My co-worker saved some ducks today. v v  
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Outrail posted:Sounds like you just picked up a staff engagement and retainment specialist (fill the mail cart with booze and a DJ set). North Face stuff. I have so many hoodies, vests, and jackets from them with the company logo. And backpacks.
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Atopian posted:It's best not to be too secure because there is no chain of reason or logic that can make you safe from a fundamentally broken, unreasonable system. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead! 
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We have one of those dumb points systems but instead of just paying way over the odds for absolute garbage in the catalogue we can also cash them in for Amazon gift cards at a way better value, and the minimum award and every incremented tier is always worth at least £5 so if you get anything at all you can always cash it out instead of having a useless number of dumb points leftover. I’ve spreadsheet hero’d my way to like £50 in Amazon fun money in the last few months
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Cowman posted:I don't get why companies obsess over work-based social media. My work just implemented one and it's not exactly taking off. It just seems like a trap to me, if I spend a lot of time on the social media thing then I'm not working and they can just fire me or overload me with more work. I worked at a company that made us sign up for some random site that I don't remember the name of (I think it started with an I?) and every once in a while, they would email us company highlights & specifically ask us to post about them on that site. Maybe I got laid off because I never did. 
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Comstar posted:Trust me when I say this: EVERYONE thinks this right at the moment you get fired. If you're that valuable you would be getting paid more somewhere else. If it was a corporate thing I'd agree, and I'll never feel 100% safe or anything. But this is a mom and popish place (80 employees, single owner who started the company by himself) and the owner has gone to great lengths to keep me. If for some reason we really struggled and had to get rid of staff, myself and about 4-5 others would be the last ones off the ship, because we can all do multiple things and he can rely on them being done correctly and with the best interest of the company in mind. Obviously that could all change but for now I'm one of the most reliable people he has and he prioritizes that over most anything else. I'll see you all next when when I get fired now.
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Announcing corporate buyout and merger in 3...2...
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Outrail posted:Announcing corporate buyout and merger in 3...2... Yeah, that's the main thing I could see upending everything. When I first started, the company was owned by two brothers, one who started it (engineer) and then let his other brother (business) take over the business side. Then they started to hate each other, wouldn't even be in the same room together. Business wanted to sell, the other refused to. Engineering brother bought out the other one and is now sole owner, and the company is his baby. He's hired/promoted other people to handle the business side now and the company is run by him and a small inner circle of managers, me included.
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What a rollercoaster Combo posted:He's hired/promoted other people to handle the business side now and the company is run by him and a small inner circle of managers, me included. That's awesome but can we talk about an engineer owner who knew how to let go? Can we clone this mf?
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This is only tangential related, but who the hell else am I going to tell? This chick I work with who could be considered above me in that one (of my several) tasks is to help her if she happens to need it has asked if I could help her move as she knows very few people in our town. I was willing cause I’m a helpful guy and I know she will struggle otherwise. She clarified that what she wants is for me to take three days off and travel each of those days to another (nearby) city to help. Use up three of my holiday days. Work those days for free. Travel to another city. For a chick I’ve worked with 3 times for a total of perhaps 6 hours overall. I bet she doesn’t even own a printer.
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Oh he's still a pain in the rear end, but it's more in a way where he says "yes" to every weird custom thing customers want to do, and then a few of us end up having to take a lot of time to figure out how to pull it off. He has every intention of helping and usually does, but he's also busy as hell. He wants to travel around the country actually doing the work like the dudes we pay $20/hr to, and doesn't have time for the "annoying poo poo" like doing reviews or running the day to day. So yeah he let go, but only so he can just go and do whatever job he wants to do. It's like a CEO deciding to let a board run the company while he decides to be a janitor at the building.
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