Catastrophe posted:

Jesus. I hope you mended after that experience.

Lazyfire posted:

Haha, no, I went into aerospace, a business built on burning people out in order to deliver half of their commits. It's only slightly less toxic than working for family.

Lazyfire posted:

When I got accepted into college my dad told me that I was never allowed to work for the store if I went, not because he thought it was a waste of education or anything, but because I had a chance to get out of the extremely toxic family business.

bee posted:

I had to listen to the old white man in charge of protective security tell me today that a trans employee who wants a shortened, feminised but still androgynous sounding version of her first name on her building keycard can't have that, because a government pass can be recognised as a legitimate form of I.D so only a legal name can be on the pass.

Then the manager of the employee, who is also the head of the data analytics team stated that she did some checking and 22% of her team have shortened, anglicised or preferred names on their building pass and her trans employee doesn't understand why she can't do that too. Protective security boomer splutters something about having shortened names that are clearly indicative of gender being ok when I interjected with being unaware of any law that states someone's first name needs to be indicative of their biological sex or gender and that he'd better get some advice from legal, because right now our organisation is appearing to discriminate against an employee and we'll get our arses handed to us if this employee goes to the Fair Work Commission.

Data analytics manager also asked if protective security is going to do an audit and contact everyone in possession of a security pass that has a strictly non legal version of their name to reissue passes with their legal names and collect all the not legal passes. For reference, we have over 6000 employees, so this would take a while. No answer on that one, but suddenly the employee is allowed to have a temporary pass card with no name on it until the legal department gives them an answer on what to do.

Lazyfire posted:

Well, I was looking forward to Shogun on FX/Hulu and you ruined it for me because there's clearly a better Japanese epic out there.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Lmao after all that this is actually a legit physical security problem and something that shouldn’t be allowed.

Please tell me the temp pass at least has a photo on it.

RocketMermaid posted:

Man, gently caress old bigots who use their tiny, limp scraps of authority against anybody different. I hope this dude gets absolutely hosed.

Lazyfire posted:

Well, I was looking forward to Shogun on FX/Hulu and you ruined it for me because there's clearly a better Japanese epic out there.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Lmao after all that this is actually a legit physical security problem and something that shouldn’t be allowed.

deep dish peat moss posted:

I have a new job and it's pretty cool all things considered, but my start time is 7am despite the fact that none of the work we do can be started before 9am. So every day I come in and sit around twiddling my thumbs for two hours!

deep dish peat moss posted:

I have a new job and it's pretty cool all things considered, but my start time is 7am despite the fact that none of the work we do can be started before 9am. So every day I come in and sit around twiddling my thumbs for two hours!

deep dish peat moss posted:

I have a new job and it's pretty cool all things considered, but my start time is 7am despite the fact that none of the work we do can be started before 9am. So every day I come in and sit around twiddling my thumbs for two hours!

Cyrano4747 posted:

I would not complain if I got two hours of paid shitposting at the start of my work day.

Sad King Billy posted:

I would quite like to finish 2 hours early.

Collateral Damage posted:

My access card for work is completely blank save for a serial number in the corner.

Outrail posted:

Yeah, I think 'preventing armed assailants from stabbing staff, after an armed assailant stabbed staff' is about the best justification for passes you're going to get.

Wild EEPROM posted:

my old work id had a qr code on it but if you scanned it, it just took you to google.

Wild EEPROM posted:

my old work id had a qr code on it but if you scanned it, it just took you to google.

Alkydere posted:

A few months ago I escaped the madness of working inside an Amazon FC warehouse for years.

Now I work in the madness in the trailer yard out back.

Holy hell commercial drivers are insane. Also we had one of our yard hostler cabs catch fire this week.

Tunicate posted:

Why are you already undercutting yourself in the negotiation

Artadius posted:

Artadius posted:

Alright, I could use some advice.

I'm currently employed in a highly technical and specialized position for a large chemical company within one of their plant's maintenance department. I am a contractor and not a direct employee. I took this job almost a couple of years ago and left a salaried position for another large company because this new job paid quite a bit more (hourly) AND had Overtime on top of that which would amount to an average of 40 OT hours per month. Former job offered to match my base rate to keep me, but couldn't compete with the OT. I took the contract gig.

Long story short I've regretted that decision quite a bit over the almost two years because the work is monotonous and has quite a lot of frustrating roadblocks. At least the OT made up for that... until somewhat recently. They pretty much cut out all OT for everyone in the plant a few months ago. I've raised a stink that I'm not happy with this because it was a verbal agreement that this was the "deal" to get me to come over. Since then they have thrown a little bit of OT my way, but not near as much as before.

I have developed my own processes to highly optimize what it is that I do cut down 90% of the tedium to meet my deliverables each week. Nothing groundbreaking, just stuff like VBA code to quickly manage imports and exports out of SAP and my native application and other macros / dashboards to make reporting a breeze. While not groundbreaking, this is the kind of place where there is literally noone else at this plant that has any clue what I do or how I do this magic. There is zero chance they could replace me. I know it and they know I know it.

Back when the OT dried up, I was pinged by a former colleague from the previous job who had moved to a different organization within the company and wanted me to apply for a new position at former company. I jumped on the opportunity. To sum up, I just accepted an offer from my former company and will start with them on March 1st. I gave my notice to my current company yesterday and Feb 29th is my last day.

I have floated the idea to current company that I would be willing to continue to create the deliverables needed weekly for an ad-hoc charge per week as moonlighting work for myself after I leave. My custom processes I"ve developed means it would not be difficult for me to do after hours at home. This would save them money as they are no longer paying me hourly per week, but a one time charge per deliverable (its a weekly deliverable) which I would be happy taking less than half of what they're paying me now for. Why would I do this you might ask? Again, my processes makes it super easy to do and I could spit out in free time from home.

They've already admitted they're not going to be able to replace me any time soon and are already pressing me to extensively document my processes and custom code / applications that I personally developed in order to optimize the data management needed to create the weekly development. I don't really want to do that because that is my competitive advantage and I want to leverage that advantage for this side-gig (at least until they finally find a replacement and get them trained up and able to work as agile as I can).

Again, I'm not a direct employee of this current company, I'm just a contractor and I have a very good relationship with my contact company. I have no relationship with the big corporation I currently work for and no personal relationships with anyone here.

Thoughts and opinions?

P.S. new job is a small pay cut.... but is remote work and a leadership position with high potential for career growth. Current job is a 45 minute commute and I'd probably be doing this poo poo the rest of my life.

Sorry for

Artadius posted:

Cause I'm fishing for a side gig and want to make it seem like they're going to come out ahead on this.

They're cutting budgets everywhere and I could see them just accepting the fact that they might not replace my capability and go back to how they used to do it before me which was very stone-age.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Now, if your contract specifies that they own anything you developed during your employment period they have the right to demand that stuff of you,

Rawrbomb posted:

Assuming you're in the USA you would be paying taxes on your self employed income, unless you think they're going to keep you on as an employee? I would not expect that.



Assuming that's true, and you're now some 1099 direct contractor, you need to make sure you're keeping these costs in mind, and rolling them into the cost of your services. You might want/need to incorporate into a business entity, to absolve yourself of personal liability, an accountant, etc. This all has costs and overhead.

On paper, I would not suggest doing the job as a contractor if you're not billing them for double what they would have paid you normally, if not a little more.

Artadius posted:

Good ask.

That's covered though. My current contract company is A-OK with continuing to pay me as an employee via the ad-hoc work if the corporation goes for it because contract company also knows they're not going to be able to replace me anytime soon. So they'd still cover taxes and bare minimum benefits via overhead charge on my delivery fee.

Outrail posted:

I would make sure you're legally able to withhold the work you did. Then I would demand gently caress you contractor rates and get your pound of flesh.