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It's not like you can tell these things about someone before hiring them. I worked very briefly with some guy I thought was a bit of a douche, but nothing outrageous. A few years later someone posts his obituary and it turned out he had basically kidnapped some vulnerable 18 year old, drove her 2000 miles to his house and started using her as a sex slave. She stabbed him to death and got committed. He probably wasn't giving off indicators that he was a predator while someone interviewed him. Can't blame yourself for something like that
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Jul 24, 2022 17:07
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I've spent a week at my new job and done nothing but training slides and videos. Also got told budgets are suddenly very tight and we might not get the new equipment/software we need to do our job, but also we're trying to hire new people. I'm sure everything will turn out fine
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Sep 5, 2022 14:45
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Three weeks into my new job and I can't trust a single thing another technician is doing. Caught him blatantly trying to process out a bad piece of equipment. He's got a reputation of being good at his job but I'm sure it's all smoke and mirrors and the fact that he's working on a swing shift means it's hard to have any kind of visibility. I'm just another tech so not much I can do. Brought it up with my lead so at least he knows about it.
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Sep 18, 2022 14:51
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For some reason my current company makes time cards unavailable around New Years and everyone has to use paper versions for a week before they can enter them in online. They've been doing this forever and everyone who's been here for a while doesn't think anything of it. I'm sure someone somewhere has a good reason for it but I sure don't
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Jan 8, 2023 22:39
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Two weeks ago I went to someone’s retirement in my department who had been here for 36 years. Today I’m going to someone’s retirement in my department who’s been here for 18 years. And here I am having been here less than 6 months trying to move on cause it’s the fastest way for me to get paid more.
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Feb 3, 2023 15:09
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I get mentally fatigued every day by lunchtime and I feel like that's unhealthy and it makes me want to quit even more. Also I think my manager has been hamstringing us by overwhelmingly hiring veterans. I mean it's nice that we're all vets from random branches but it means our pool of people to choose from is way smaller than it could be.
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Feb 9, 2023 04:49
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I think it'd be great if our manager hired more people. We're three people short in a 25 person department and it seems like OT will be mandatory starting next week.
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Feb 16, 2023 05:12
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We just had a guy on our team retire after 36 years, then another person two weeks later after 18 years. They post all these retirements on some internal page and the highest I've seen for our company this year was 46 years.
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Mar 14, 2023 04:14
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I couldn't do my job yesterday because we had a world metrology day and invited other random people to show up and eat brisket and pulled pork that one of our guys made. There was also a presentation and demonstrations of some of the boring stuff we do. I mean it was nice to get paid and hang out for a few hours and only a couple people came by to see me show them how cool oscilloscopes can be
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May 20, 2023 23:34
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in a well actually posted:Idk storm forecasting sounds pretty cool, is an oscilloscope a fancy barometer? Unfortunately metrology is far more boring than meteorology. priznat posted:Oscilloscopes do rock. Yeah this one was an ancient Hewlett-Packard model, it was really only cool cause it had the game Centipede built into it, though they were calling it Bugs. The new ones they make are super cool, although at our level we sure as hell have no purpose for them other than some real basic poo poo
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May 21, 2023 21:28
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I had a one on one with my manger today to discuss individual development plans. He told me he wanted to promote me, I told him I wanted to change career fields. He said he’d still try to promote me even if I’m planning on leaving. I have a meeting with the department head of the other group I’m trying to get into on Friday, so we’ll see how that goes. This is also the first time in almost 14 years of working that working hard at my job is leading to a promotion. It’s usually led to more work and the same pay and in one case less money and more work
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May 24, 2023 18:58
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I come back from a long weekend and find that our parent company is trying to divest our division. My job is probably safe if we’re acquired by a similar company. If it’s a private equity firm all bets are off
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Jun 20, 2023 14:24
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I've got this AI generated image hanging up in my cubicle that my girlfriend made for me. There's another one that's supposed to be an avocado in 4D space but it looks like an avocado in regular 3D space.
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Jun 29, 2023 11:32
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There's a possibility some people do work Sundays. I applied for a job that would have me work two Sundays during a 5 week rotation. I'd probably take it too despite the awful week of straight overnights
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Jul 16, 2023 20:59
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We’re supposed to hear some news about if and who’s going to acquire us in about a month. I’m kinda hoping to be gone by then. There’s no guarantee the next company will see our cost savings as beneficial, but also this job sucks and I want out
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Jul 26, 2023 16:34
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My manager has 22 direct reports and I have no idea how he does it. And he keeps opening reqs so we get more people. I think he just really likes working
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Aug 5, 2023 15:43
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One of the reasons I left the military was that the IC track didn’t exist. After five years I was supervising three people and had a fourth person as a direct report. Great if you’re looking for management experience, not so much if you just want to kick it doing some lab work and nothing else
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Aug 7, 2023 19:05
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Welp, never been through an acquisition before but it’s official, we’re getting acquired. My job is probably safe but we’ll see how this goes
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Aug 17, 2023 13:27
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skipdogg posted:Best advice I can give you I'll try to keep all that in mind. I'm not super worried about being laid off since we're a small but critical career field though I suppose it doesn't matter if someone thinks we should be on the chopping block. Also I've been trying to leave for a while so I wouldn't even be mad if I got the boot
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Aug 18, 2023 03:58
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I applied for a job that I think wanted a top secret clearance and one of the questions was if I had dual citizenship and if I was willing to give it up. There probably exists a job where I would give it up, but that one wasn’t it
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Aug 18, 2023 21:02
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I got promoted and it takes effect Sunday, so my first day as a lead technician will be a holiday. I was also trying to leave before I got promoted but it turns out getting back into IT with a couple years experience and without taking a big paycut is proving to be tricky
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Sep 2, 2023 01:32
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tumblr hype man posted:November also has Veteran's day, but I guess most people don't actually get that off (my veteran Father never did). Working for a bank pays off again I guess. My company didn’t let us have it last year along with president’s day and Juneteenth and instead gave us floating holidays. This year they got rid of floating holidays and we get it off. Two jobs ago I worked somewhere that didn’t give us Black Friday off. I worked on a military base and I’m pretty sure we were some of the only people who had to come in that day. It was nice not dealing with traffic I guess
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Sep 4, 2023 21:13
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tumblr hype man posted:Yea we don't get Black Friday, or the week between Christmas and New Years (like some of my manufacturing customers) but since we can be remote now I just "wfh". I loving hated Pioneer Day when I lived there. My neighbors would be shooting off fireworks the entire month of July cause it’s July 24th so it was nonstop all month. I never got that day off either
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Sep 4, 2023 21:45
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One of the old-timers I work with may have gotten the process started on getting himself shitcanned/into forced retirement. He's the only one of us that works remote and has a bit of an 'I can't be wrong' attitude so I won't be sad to see him go, also I have no idea what he does all day
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Sep 16, 2023 02:51
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I spent my lunch doing a phone screen for somewhere else, maybe I’ll get an interview
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Sep 20, 2023 20:37
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Our company does a big plexiglass number with your name on it every time you hit another five years here. We also have a page with people who have retired and their years or service. Highest I’ve seen was 49 or 50. We aren’t even government
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Sep 25, 2023 04:19
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It turns out those customer survey things they send out really do get read. We had two items stuck at another company for weeks with no updates when I asked and no reason for why they were hanging on to them for so long. They sent out a customer satisfaction survey and I sorta laid into them. Got a phone call about it. First time I’ve had real issues with them, they’re usually great so I didn’t feel great complaining but what was I supposed to tell our end users
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Oct 6, 2023 21:55
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I kinda didn’t give a gently caress about my performance review. A few things I put in: “I have exceeded all wildest expectations. I have set the bar higher than my predecessors.” “I have done some stuff and things.” “I think I’m doing well at this.” “I got donuts for helping one of our end users, but when he showed up with them I was out that day.” “I work pretty hard I guess.” Still got promoted, lol
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Oct 12, 2023 19:32
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My last day is next Friday and I’m hoping I can sneak out and not do a whole going away. I just wanna work a normal day and go home
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Oct 26, 2023 18:52
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My manager said I’m welcome back if my new job doesn’t work out. The gesture was sorta nice, he said I’d take a pay cut because I’ll have to start one level down from where I’m at. gently caress me if I have to go walking back to the metrology career field for the second time, I want out for a long time
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Oct 28, 2023 04:28
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Tnuctip posted:That sounds like a super passive aggressive gently caress you. Yeah you’re right, I really shouldn’t come back here unless they promote me again beyond what I’m at now. From what my manager has said I’ve been the most productive electronics technician to set foot in this lab in the 26 years he’s been here and it’s not even close. Taking a paycut would be insulting to me
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Oct 30, 2023 15:24
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Tnuctip posted:I’m certainly not knocking technicians, but how many techs has that lab promoted out and up over those 26 years? I realized that was going to be my career path if I stayed a technician years ago. There’s nothing quite like working alongside a guy who’s 50 years older than you doing the same poo poo everyday to motivate someone to find something else. That being said I wouldn’t mind doing it part time when I’m way older. It can be a cake job in the right circumstances
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Oct 31, 2023 04:54
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You should not have sent the email, especially if your original intent is to avoid interaction. Her mind was already made up. At that point you’re just poking the bear hive or whatever
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Oct 31, 2023 18:47
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I was supposed to train a new guy in my job this week since it’s my last week but he no showed on Monday and got his start date pushed back to next week. Oh well, sounds like it’s someone else’s job now
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Nov 1, 2023 20:02
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I did my exit survey and when it came time for the interview she told me she had everything she needed from the survey. I think it lasted 8 minutes. Out of 5 jobs I had this was the only exit interview I’ve done
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Nov 7, 2023 21:43
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Sundae posted:Welcome to hell! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0wEfdhbHUk
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Nov 11, 2023 16:49
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CancerCakes posted:I like the implication that death is the only way you can leave the business. It’s either that or getting on a plane to Singapore
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Nov 13, 2023 23:12
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Starting week 3 of my new job. Still haven’t gotten my laptop and haven’t been given much to do. I’m content just coasting for a bit
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Do we work for the same place? One of our desktop support guys just got a new hire to set up...who apparently started 2 weeks ago & never got a laptop If you’re working in a hospital then maybe. I do have my boss’ boss’ backup laptop so I’m not entirely useless, but it would also be nice to get my stuff since I’m classified as remote and should be getting paid just to drive out here.
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Dec 1, 2023 20:07
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they got a list of new hires today by email & the guy's start date shows as 12/4/23, no clue how they screwed that up so hard.