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Escape From Noise posted:Man. I sometimes forget how much job hunting sucks the turds off a hog's balls. The only thing worse than working is looking for work.
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Magnetic North posted:The only thing worse than working is looking for work. Yeah. I still remember filling out the nth "Why are you excited to join our team at _______?" section of job applications and feeling my already dumb brain melting.
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May 5, 2023 13:31
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Magnetic North posted:The only thing worse than working is looking for work. LOL, I basically spent all of 2018 job hunting Only place that got close to an offer was a bank where their PTO policy was "Well, if you start in October, you'll have about... 7.89 hours of PTO to use next year..." and I bounced. This place is dumb as hell, but not THAT dumb, lmao.
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May 5, 2023 13:44
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Escape From Noise posted:"Why are you excited to join our team at _______?" "I don't know anything about the job yet" *submit*
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May 5, 2023 14:06
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~Coxy posted:If you're levelling something to thous/mils, then it makes absolutely no different as to whether you use metric or US customary.
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May 5, 2023 14:09
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zedprime posted:I don't think you understand. We are missing the valuable exchange "oh you want me to level to 100 micrometers? Do you mean zero point zero zero zero one meters? I mean, you joke, but I'm tangentially involved in something that \got delayed for two weeks because a spec was listed as .1 deci<unit>, and the customary way that it is normally reported is just <unit>, so no one was sure if it was actually .1 deci-thing or if it should have been .1 thing (i.e. 1 deci-thing). Had to go back and forth with a supplier before establishing that, yes, it was .1 deci-thing. Which started a whole nerdy argument between our nerds and their nerds (that I had no business being in but was CC'd on) about whether it should actually be .01 thing or 1 mili-thing or if .1 deci-thing is needed because the spec was originally written in deci-things, but the way science and industry usually reports it is just the raw unit (no deci, mili, etc) but there's another standard that says to use the smallest unit name to avoid decimal confusion in specs and blah blah blah ugh.
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May 5, 2023 14:16
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TheParadigm posted:saw this the other day. Slightly relevant This is 100% accurate.
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May 5, 2023 14:49
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Deci-units are dumb. Centimetres and hectares included.
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May 5, 2023 14:51
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goatface posted:Deci-units are dumb. Centimetres and hectares included.  , they are cool, and good, and strong, and my friend.
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May 5, 2023 14:55
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Cyrano4747 posted:I mean, you joke, but I'm tangentially involved in something that \got delayed for two weeks because a spec was listed as .1 deci<unit>, and the customary way that it is normally reported is just <unit>, so no one was sure if it was actually .1 deci-thing or if it should have been .1 thing (i.e. 1 deci-thing). Had to go back and forth with a supplier before establishing that, yes, it was .1 deci-thing. But any way the legal trade unit thing is similarly deprecated by just putting the trade unit in the paper work with a requested customary unit alongside it. All this talk of official hogsheads this and mandatory Pascals that is missing the facts of power structures are already defining the language of trade. You're either a big fish and require things in XYZ units and notation or you're the small fish and listening. It's not often the governments being the big fish here. NIST and GCWM are small fish organizations trailing the local trades' and sciences' power. Anyway I'd kill for a remotely organized countable things holding things standard. Pieces, eaches, cases, rolls, handling units. Just completely unhinged and reinvented by every individual industrial designer per product.
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May 5, 2023 15:09
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I did astrophysics. I know the simple joys of translating between solar masses per cubic parsec to Da/cm3. But that doesn't make any of it good. Metric units, prefixes going up by 103 only. Please.
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May 5, 2023 15:12
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Chewbecca posted:Interviewed for a job yesterday, got rejection phonecall today (less than 24 hours later) and was told an internal candidate got it. Oh hey are you multiple applicants to my dept about two weeks from today? Manager already has buddy picked out but gotta sit through these interviews with candidates who don’t know that.
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May 5, 2023 15:53
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lost my job just like I thought I would. Technically it's because of budget cuts and financial reasons but in reality it's almost certainly because my wife's pregnant and I was going to take a bunch of time off later in the year. They also let go a pregnant woman and another woman with a chronic illness that she was finally going to get checked out thanks to having insurance.
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May 5, 2023 15:57
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Cowman posted:lost my job just like I thought I would. Technically it's because of budget cuts and financial reasons but in reality it's almost certainly because my wife's pregnant and I was going to take a bunch of time off later in the year. They also let go a pregnant woman and another woman with a chronic illness that she was finally going to get checked out thanks to having insurance. That sucks, sorry mate. Just the three of you? Do you have good records?
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May 5, 2023 17:00
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Sounds like a class action lawsuit to me. Y'all should get together and talk to a lawyer.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh hey are you multiple applicants to my dept about two weeks from today? Manager already has buddy picked out but gotta sit through these interviews with candidates who don’t know that.   Cowman posted:lost my job just like I thought I would. Technically it's because of budget cuts and financial reasons but in reality it's almost certainly because my wife's pregnant and I was going to take a bunch of time off later in the year. They also let go a pregnant woman and another woman with a chronic illness that she was finally going to get checked out thanks to having insurance. Super Waffle posted:Sounds like a class action lawsuit to me. Y'all should get together and talk to a lawyer. I agree it's at least worth a discussion with an employment lawyer!!
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May 5, 2023 18:40
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I was part of about 100 or so layoffs that day. I'm in TN where there's basically no labor protections so I can't prove that it was because of those reasons. I'm just assuming because I was one of the founding members of the team and did my job well. I got a poo poo severance package too, but at least I got one. The "official" reason is budget cuts and financial problems (which is true, the company is bombing financially and getting bought out) but their choice of who to layoff is super suspicious.
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May 5, 2023 18:49
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Tunicate posted:Experience desired: has done this exact job, in this exact office, for 10 years McGavin posted:Office was built 7 years ago and the job was created 3 years ago. Manager: 7+3=10, boom problem solved! Magnetic North posted:The only thing worse than working is looking for work. Dumb poo poo Your Work Does: The only thing worse than working is looking for work. Agents are GO! fucked around with this message at 19:01 on May 5, 2023 |
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Tunicate posted:Experience desired: has done this exact job, in this exact office, for 10 years Missed this but lol
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Cowman posted:I was part of about 100 or so layoffs that day. I'm in TN where there's basically no labor protections so I can't prove that it was because of those reasons. I'm just assuming because I was one of the founding members of the team and did my job well. I got a poo poo severance package too, but at least I got one. The "official" reason is budget cuts and financial problems (which is true, the company is bombing financially and getting bought out) but their choice of who to layoff is super suspicious. I fully believe my husband was put on the list of layoffs because I’d had a miscarriage a month prior. They really poo poo on him when they fired him and cited performance issues that he’d never heard about until that day — my guess is to cover up that he was just one of many being laid off and that they didn’t like the idea of an employee with obligations outside of work (i.e., a child). I didn’t want him to tell his boss I was pregnant because the work environment was so toxic, but I needed him to stay home with me when it happened, and he didn’t think they’d give him the day off if he didn’t say why. I wish we could have had any legal recourse, but there was nothing to do about it. Sorry you’re having to deal with that.
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Cowman posted:I was part of about 100 or so layoffs that day. I'm in TN where there's basically no labor protections so I can't prove that it was because of those reasons. I'm just assuming because I was one of the founding members of the team and did my job well. I got a poo poo severance package too, but at least I got one. The "official" reason is budget cuts and financial problems (which is true, the company is bombing financially and getting bought out) but their choice of who to layoff is super suspicious. Hi fellow TN goon, I think we’re at different places but yeah TN sucks for unemployment. I was let go for a safety violation, technically true (but god forbid the rules apply to people evenly), right before they shitcanned 150+ people over the subsequent 3 months. So no severance, no tough titty talk from boss or bosses bosses, just a piece of poo poo HR manager who was browsing on his phone in the middle of firing me. gently caress that place.
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Tnuctip posted:Hi fellow TN goon, I think we’re at different places but yeah TN sucks for unemployment. I was let go for a safety violation, technically true (but god forbid the rules apply to people evenly), right before they shitcanned 150+ people over the subsequent 3 months. So no severance, no tough titty talk from boss or bosses bosses, just a piece of poo poo HR manager who was browsing on his phone in the middle of firing me. gently caress that place. My boss was legitimately upset and reportedly was in tears when he told the rest of the team. He was the main reason I stuck around because he was a drat good dude. Some higher up made the decision. The team I was on always was hated by the rest of the company. It was created by an old CIO who later got the boot. I worked for a trucking company and my job was to gather shipping and receiving hours and some other stuff from customers. This was to make scheduling easier or some poo poo, I never fully understood/cared as to why, but basically we made the operations team (who would book loads and stuff) look bad by going back and cleaning up their mistakes. I was a digital janitor basically and the operations team was utterly incompetent and frequently made mistakes and filled in wrong info and things like that. The job sucked and I stuck around longer than I should have due to complacency and loyalty to my team. Honestly, this is a good thing in some ways because it's giving me a kick in the rear end to get my certifications and a different job that I'll hopefully enjoy.
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goatface posted:Deci-units are dumb. Centimetres and hectares included. You missed decagrams.
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Outrail posted:*America and kinda canada Hey. We use metric. The only times imperial measurements get brought in is when we're having to deal with the US. (To be fair, height and weight are usually in imperial, but that's a side effect of the US being so pervasive.) TaurusTorus posted:Intellectually I understand this, but christ, there’s training videos from the nineties talking about the imminent switch to full metric. My mom has a cookbook from the 70s or 80s, where the ladies who wrote it were going "the switch to metric is coming so we took the time to work out all the conversions you'll need! Here's a list, and we've listed both measurements in every recipe".
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May 5, 2023 21:57
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lol the nightmare company I left my job for before seeing the writing on the wall and getting the gently caress out 4 months later is going out of business couldn’t have happened to a nicer management team but I hope the frontline guys can find something, I can’t get all the good ones hired here as much as I’d want to
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Despite record revenue, Shopify laid off a fifth of its workforce, including my ex-gf. My LinkedIn feed is full of people being like "so sorry you lost your job! Unfortunately, nothing can be done about that" and somehow that's the most disgusting thing about the whole debacle. Just a complete lack of reflection or critique.
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May 6, 2023 12:24
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Work loving sucks. I propose we stop it.
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May 6, 2023 12:32
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I say let the robots to the work, so we can drink cocktails every day 🍹
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My job has 3 separate time keeping systems that I need to interact with every day. First one is for clocking in and out, just a simple click on the big CLOCK IN and CLOCK OUT button.. Then I have to report in a chat room that I'm clocking in and write what I'm going to be doing, then at the end of the day I have to report that I'm clocking out and what I actually did. And I also need to write which issues I worked on hour-by-hour every day on a separate program.
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That is enough bullshit to make me quit.
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Seriously. It wasn't that bad even in consulting
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May 6, 2023 15:42
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Sounds like work where you’re time tracking literally everything you do for billable hours. Sucks poo poo.
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Archer666 posted:My job has 3 separate time keeping systems that I need to interact with every day. First one is for clocking in and out, just a simple click on the big CLOCK IN and CLOCK OUT button.. Then I have to report in a chat room that I'm clocking in and write what I'm going to be doing, then at the end of the day I have to report that I'm clocking out and what I actually did. And I also need to write which issues I worked on hour-by-hour every day on a separate program. That's a no from me, dog
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Hard no thanks, and I track hours by the 15 minute increment. What happens if any of those numbers don't agree?
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Archer666 posted:My job has 3 separate time keeping systems that I need to interact with every day. First one is for clocking in and out, just a simple click on the big CLOCK IN and CLOCK OUT button.. Then I have to report in a chat room that I'm clocking in and write what I'm going to be doing, then at the end of the day I have to report that I'm clocking out and what I actually did. And I also need to write which issues I worked on hour-by-hour every day on a separate program. Have you calculated how much of your day you are paid to track your hours?
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I used to work at a place where I had to fill out timesheets and I filled them out in 15-minute intervals until my coworker gave me her timesheet to give to our boss and it had 9-6 in every row. I felt like such a dipshit after being so painstakingly honest for all that time.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Sounds like work where you’re time tracking literally everything you do for billable hours. Sucks poo poo. Honestly I'm used to it from the other jobs I've been doing, but those jobs just had 1 system for hour tracking. Not 3 separate systems of which 2 are just literal chat rooms lol Barudak posted:Have you calculated how much of your day you are paid to track your hours? I did consider putting down 30-60 minute blocks with just "Hour tracking" as description lol Outrail posted:Hard no thanks, and I track hours by the 15 minute increment. The HR person usually sends me a discord message with what's not agreeing and where I need to edit what to make it match. So thankfully they're not too hardassed about it.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I used to work at a place where I had to fill out timesheets and I filled them out in 15-minute intervals until my coworker gave me her timesheet to give to our boss and it had 9-6 in every row. I felt like such a dipshit after being so painstakingly honest for all that time. Yeah at the end of the week I just look at my calender and sent emails and guestimate hours until it says 8. It helps that I approve my timesheet with no oversight 
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Consulting in the beer industry here might be pretty lucrative with my experience (apparently), maybe over 3 times my current pay as a brewer. The downsides will probably be a lot of traveling for work and lovely hours. But if it's doable I can use it to stack Noguchi's for a few years and use the experience as a stepping stone to a boring office job or something.
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