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Eat This Glob posted:anyway, i just pick 4/5 and 5/5 on pretty much everything without thinking too much about it because my boss doesn't give a poo poo This is the way. As far as these metrics are concerned I have supreme confidence in my own abilities, "impact", and value to the company, and I will happily argue with my boss if they think I'm overrating myself. gently caress negotiating myself out of the bigger bonus
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Eat This Glob posted:i just got an email yesterday saying it's evaluation time. my company makes us, the employee, do a self-evaluation first and then our bosses look at ours and counter with theirs. making us snitch on ourselves...ruthless This is what my current job does and I loving hate evaluations like this so I just didn't fill it out at all this year. I get an auto reminder email from the evaluation software every couple weeks that I have outstanding tasks to perform. I delete the email and go on with my life. We don't have a bonus so none of this poo poo matters to me. If my boss wants me to change something they are welcome to tell me whenever they want.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:But the hard quotas on people who need to be ranked as underperforming is the wild part - apparently nearly a third of the company is absolutely miserable at their jobs (honestly believable but still) Obviously the point of stack ranking is to usher people out of door but I can't help think that in an honest assessment of the people I know in my department that way more than 30% are inadequate to the task. Eat This Glob posted:i just got an email yesterday saying it's evaluation time. my company makes us, the employee, do a self-evaluation first and then our bosses look at ours and counter with theirs. making us snitch on ourselves...ruthless I fill it out honestly and on stuff like "Enthusiasm" just share my honest assessment of "I am here because I'm paid to be here" with a 1 out of 3 or whatever. My boss always just ignores everything I write and gives me top scores and writes lies and turns it in. No one's said anything yet.
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ClassActionFursuit posted:Obviously the point of stack ranking is to usher people out of door but I can't help think that in an honest assessment of the people I know in my department that way more than 30% are inadequate to the task. Remember that “pick 30% to tag as inadequate” doesn’t mean that the right people are picked.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I pick proficiencies (no I won't spell-check that) that have gently caress-all to do with my job and my boss knows gently caress-all about and put in 3/3 and it makes him groan but if the system allows it, it allows it Yeah, as a computer toucher, I think my skills in Photoshop, Swedish language, welding and chemistry should count. And by truck certificate should count at least triple. SQL? Never heard of it
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Orange Devil posted:This is what my current job does and I loving hate evaluations like this so I just didn't fill it out at all this year. I get an auto reminder email from the evaluation software every couple weeks that I have outstanding tasks to perform. I delete the email and go on with my life. My job won't approve any raises or anything if the assessment isn't done so I have to do the stupid song and dance. We have to put a bunch of "SMART" goals at the beginning of the year which are rendered obsolete in the first quarter so at the end of the year I just fudge everything and say why what the thing I actually did instead was actually awesome. My bosses are chill so it's never been a problem.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I haven't done a meaningful PM in over ten years. it's all bullshit. Read this as BM, which made more sense since I don't know what a PM is here
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:Piss Movement RIP(M)
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I once wrote a "fully honest" PR thing in the company system, bc my boss was a goofball grifter and we'd yuck it up at review time. If you read it straight you'd think i was a misanthrope alcoholic but it was fine bc boss is cool. Until bossman tossed himself from a lift and I became the boss, which meant my most recent PR went to the VP ops director :| Fortunately VPops is *actually* a misanthrope alcoholic so he thought it was funny. I got a 12k raise.
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Business Gorillas posted:Our management spends more time figuring out who wrote which anonymous PR than they do actually fixing things You do know that they're not fixing things, they're breaking them, right? You're doing the right thing by bogging them down with pointless stuff so they don't have the time to insert themselves into actual work with their half baked ideas. Kinda like how the Saudi bureaucracy has invented the whole future city crap to keep the king out of the actual governing.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:My job won't approve any raises or anything if the assessment isn't done so I have to do the stupid song and dance. We have to put a bunch of "SMART" goals at the beginning of the year which are rendered obsolete in the first quarter so at the end of the year I just fudge everything and say why what the thing I actually did instead was actually awesome. My bosses are chill so it's never been a problem. I make one goal that is "perform assigned tasks" and then a couple like "build AI skills" or "embrace leadership opportunities".
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BonHair posted:Kinda like how the Saudi bureaucracy has invented the whole future city crap to keep the king out of the actual governing. Pretty sure the Tesla cybertruck is just a busybox for Elon
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Milo and POTUS posted:You people are getting raises/bonuses? no, but my bosses are
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PostNouveau posted:Pretty sure the Tesla cybertruck is just a busybox for Elon I keep waiting for it to be revealed that it's actually the brainchild of Kimball Musk, to fulfil the prophecy: 
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PostNouveau posted:Pretty sure the Tesla cybertruck is just a busybox for Elon I thought that too, until I heard that among the many things his companies are failing to deliver to NASA is a moon rover. Now I think the cybertruck was supposed to be a synergy thing, but instead they've got two completely hosed up projects.
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Milo and POTUS posted:You people are getting raises/bonuses? someone on linkedin cold contacted me about a job writing for their company. their starting pay was $15k more than i was making, so i told my boss he could expect a call, as id like to use him for a reference. about an hour later, his boss called me to ask what's up and what they were offering, and i said $15k more, and he said "we can't do that, but we can offer you $10k more and a year-end bonus" and i said "OK." mind you, ive never been paid more nor asked to do less than iwas this spring, so i thought id better stick around because that other company (who didnt even give me a firm offer) might expext me to work a bunch and go to the office and poo poo and gently caress that, my life is gonna suck forever once this industry dies, so i better enjoy it now. and that's the story of how i got a 15% raise this year with a (maybe?) bonus in the always lucrative and secure working world of print journalism in 2023
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I was basically the only member of my department, so I was a bit worried when we hired my direct supervisor even though I had a major voice in picking who we hired. Then he got me a solid raise in less than a month, so we're cool.
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Subjunctive posted:Remember that “pick 30% to tag as inadequate” doesn’t mean that the right people are picked. Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not defending stack ranking at any level, I'm just saying that for most people the first impression is "Wow this is saying that x% of the team is dead weight before they even look at them" when it's literally everything else about it that wrong but in my experience this assumption isn't off base. I completely understand that the point of it isn't to evaluate anything.
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Milo and POTUS posted:You people are getting raises/bonuses? Even in my blue collar, non-union job I get COL raises and (very small) bonuses regularly.
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My company just didn't do a CoL adjustment this year and then put a freeze on all raises til April. Trying to get out of there.
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The trick to getting raises is earning enough to not need them. Or collective bargaining. The majority of Danish workers get automatic adjustments yearly and possibly raises on top.
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Space Skeleton posted:My company just didn't do a CoL adjustment this year and then put a freeze on all raises til April. my last county agency cut COLA during the financial crisis and just didn’t reinstate them for 13 years (well after I left). my current county agency just pays out “adjustments” in a lump sum of like 1500$ every few years. otherwise they made a big deal about raising the floor on each job class but have compressed all promotional raises (cut 50-66%) and failed to implement any of the other education and experience bumps we were promised. it’s funny because every local county ems agency was at crisis staffing, we implemented our “huge” 12% raises and immediately were flooded with applicants from across the nation. within months like every regional agency was paying more, applicants completely dried up and we are back at crisis staffing  didn’t see that coming, guys? just no second step?
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BonHair posted:The trick to getting raises is earning enough to not need them. who let the ceo in here?
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Eat This Glob posted:someone on linkedin cold contacted me about a job writing for their company. their starting pay was $15k more than i was making, so i told my boss he could expect a call, as id like to use him for a reference. I more or less did this a couple years ago but without the offer. Just said I don't want to go out and interview and poo poo to get a raise so don't make me do that. They came back with 10% and a title bump.
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ClassActionFursuit posted:Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not defending stack ranking at any level, I'm just saying that for most people the first impression is "Wow this is saying that x% of the team is dead weight before they even look at them" when it's literally everything else about it that wrong but in my experience this assumption isn't off base. I completely understand that the point of it isn't to evaluate anything. Also if you do a stacked ranking system it becomes disadvantageous to help your coworkers and actually the positive-EV move would be to discretely sabotage them.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Also if you do a stacked ranking system it becomes disadvantageous to help your coworkers and actually the positive-EV move would be to discretely sabotage them. lmao yeah the ceo of Sears basically cratered the company multiple times by making it a libertarian dream company where departments all sabotaged eachother and directly competed for resources. It's how they wound up with the infamous 'dirt bikes and tools sale/cover' for the mother'a day edition of their catalog one year, because those departments outperformed outmanuevered the others. Of course because of capitalism, he actually profitted each time he killed the company, while even managing to bankrupt the pension.
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Coolness Averted posted:lmao yeah the ceo of Sears basically cratered the company multiple times by making it a libertarian dream company where departments all sabotaged eachother and directly competed for resources. It's how they wound up with the infamous 'dirt bikes and tools sale/cover' for the mother'a day edition of their catalog one year, because those departments outperformed outmanuevered the others. They outright owned rather than leased a good deal of their real estate so when it came time to firesale the company there was a lot of value sitting there ready to cash out In fact destroying the company to sell of the pieces might have been the plan, although that might be giving him way too much credit
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Milo and POTUS posted:You people are getting raises/bonuses? I'm getting a pay cut because health insurance premiums went up for the exact same care.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:They outright owned rather than leased a good deal of their real estate so when it came time to firesale the company there was a lot of value sitting there ready to cash out He was sued by other shareholders the most recent time he did this game because each time he's run the company into bankruptcy he's set himself up as the first secured creditor. He's also previously sold Sears assets to himself and then rented them back to the company, from real estate to even Sears own IP like craftsman and Kenmore brands.
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sears talk reminds me of this comment from metafilter from 2007 about how close sears was to being everything Amazon is and more https://www.metafilter.com/62394/The-Record-Industrys-Decline#1742245
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Coolness Averted posted:Asset stripping absolutely was the plan, but he's a dyed in the wool Libertarian/Objectivist rear end in a top hat. Best hedge fund grift right here. -Boost earnings by selling the company's assets to my hedge fund for cheap, pay myself a yuuge bonus and dividends from the proceeds because the company is fat with cash this year -Rent back those assets to the company at insane rates, whoops the company is losing money this year so all the employees need to tighten their belts. But my hedge fund is making bank, another huge bonus for me! -Oh drat the company's in a death spiral, take it to bankruptcy and get a deal to pay me back first, whoops no money left for the pension fund we'll just get permission to default on that.
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Coolness Averted posted:Asset stripping absolutely was the plan, but he's a dyed in the wool Libertarian/Objectivist rear end in a top hat. Sears was basically an institution and he completely obliterated it it's loving wild. I used to like their store when I was a kid it's where I played mgs on a ps1 demo
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Coolness Averted posted:Asset stripping absolutely was the plan, but he's a dyed in the wool Libertarian/Objectivist rear end in a top hat. So that's where the WeWork guy got the idea.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Sears was basically an institution and he completely obliterated it it's loving wild. I used to like their store when I was a kid it's where I played mgs on a ps1 demo Yeah, and they were positioned so under competent leadership they absolutely could have rivaled Amazon, since they already had most of that infrastructure in place -with the added luxury of retail locations for pickup and a supply chain already in place. He even had a huge tech budget, but instead of investing in e-commerce integration he commissioned an internal social network -participation in which was mandatory.
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Meanwhile in Poland Maintenance company SPS successfully bids for the overhaul contract for trains made by a company called Newag, beating out Newag itself to get the contract. It carries out the first few overhauls fully to-spec, and to everybody's surprise, after being put back together the trains just do not start. After several dead ends, out of desperation someone at SPS googles "polish hackers" and they hire an infosec company to have a look. What they find: quote:The numerical values 53.13845 and 17.99011 found in the computer code seemed familiar at first glance. It soon became apparent that these were GPS coordinates pointing to the vicinity of Bydgoszcz Główny Railway Station, specifically the PESA (another Polish train producer and maintenance center) site located next to it. Soon the coordinates of other maintenance centers that could carry out train repairs and maintenance in Poland were also found. Below we show the pseudo-code of the algorithm (the names of the variables or functions are given by the researchers for clarity – we do not know what the original names were): quote:A rather funny situation was encountered on another train that refused to work on November 21, 2022, even though it was not in maintenance at the time. The computer reported that the compressor had failed, although the mechanics said that everything was fine with the compressor. Unfortunately, the train still did not raise the pantographs. Analysis of the computer code detected a condition forcing the failure, which sounded like this: quote:Surprises lurked not only in the software of the computers. In one train set, researchers discovered a device signed as a “UDP<->CAN converter”, presumably enabling remote communication with the train. Removing it did not make anything stop working. Analysis showed that the on-board computer was sending lock status information to this device, and that the device itself was connected to a GSM modem.
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