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VileLL posted:what the gently caress is salesforce It is, effectively, the seventh circle of hell, but with reminder emails that tell you that you haven't reached out to a (probably dead) guy in six months because he stopped answering your calls a year ago.
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Scientastic posted:It’s waaaaaay better than the Excel spreadsheet I used to keep all my customer/supplier contacts on, and makes it a lot easier to check that you have enough coming in to hit your target. We use Netsuite because my boss thinks we're "Enterprise" enough, but doesn't realize he pays more for the software per month than he pays me to manage the people who touch the software every day, therefore I'm not loving fixing this broken poo poo.
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May 28, 2021 21:51
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On a conference call right now where my boss is talking over my prospect right now and essentially telling them they're very stupid, when I'm fact, it is my boss who is the dolt, because I know he's looking at the wrong project specs.
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May 28, 2021 21:54
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Fellow former hotel worker here. Solidarity. The worst guy we ever had was the guy who got property banned (this is a very hard thing to do) so he saved up his poo poo in trash bags for a couple of weeks, then spread poo poo through the hallways and rubbed it on the walls in places the cameras couldn't catch him. It took a second poo poo smearing episode for him to get caught. I always worked alone. It was real cool and good.
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May 29, 2021 13:24
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I still technically work in the industry. Now I just sell things to the industry instead of being boots on the ground. Has a guy call me at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. "You HAVE to overnight me a case of <very expensive soap we don't carry because nobody buys it>. I'm overbooked and (we'll call her) Gina is a dumbfuck and didn't order any!" "We don't actually carry that brand, and haven't for the last two years. We do have <replacement expensive poo poo> and I would be happy to ship that to you via Ground, but we're not overnighting things today." "LET ME SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER." "I'm the COO of the company." "Well, I don't know what that means!" This went on for a half hour until I convinced him he meant to call American Hotel Register. Which we are not.
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May 29, 2021 14:41
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My favorite hotel story is the guy who came downstairs and swore there was a ghost in his room banging around, waking him up and standing over him in the middle of the night. It was a drunk guy from the adjoining room, and the old ghost-seer was also drunk and forgot to lock the adjoining door. Always lock the door.
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May 29, 2021 16:49
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My boss hasn't let me work from home the entire pandemic. Yesterday, the building's internet was out. Instead of letting me even go work fun my phone in the Starbucks parking lot or go home and work from my own laptop, he made me sit at my desk and do literally nothing for 8 hours. Anyway I'm interviewing for a WFH job for a fully remote company and I'm not giving notice when I leave because my boss told me "well, you're fully vaccinated so you shouldn't wear a mask in the office to encourage others to get vaccinated." I'm gonna wear my full respirator every day until I get out.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:55
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My direct boss is going on vacation next week so it's the big boss only, me, assistant, warehouse manager and useless intern. Big boss is completely out of touch with reality about how time, supplies in a COVID world, human patience, production and shipping work, plus he was supposed to retire but the pandemic hit and he dug in his heels, so I'm running the office by myself. I anticipate crying in the warehouse corner at least twice so I spent a portion of today making myself a comfy corner for the privilege of it.
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Jul 17, 2021 00:47
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Call Your Grandma posted:you should steal some office supplies imo I'm building a goon cabin in the woods from boxes of #10 envelopes and paperclips and my boss is none the wiser.
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Jul 17, 2021 02:34
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Barudak posted:Friends, current projection is we sell out of inventory during the presentation announcing we have inventory That actually happened to me while I was on the call announcing inventory arrival today. We're doing great.
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Aug 17, 2021 20:26
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Lol I have an interview with a brand we distribute. My boss doesn't know. He's not gonna know unless he gets an email from me with @thebrand.com. I feel no shame about being poached because it's full WFH, about 8x what I make plus benefits.
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Aug 18, 2021 22:58
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Biowarfare posted:how loving absurdly underpaid are you that you can get 8x what you make Lol I make barely more than the person doing order entry. I am paid hourly. I was originally hired as an admin and failed upward rapidly in a dying small business in a failing market sector.
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Aug 18, 2021 23:38
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Also never work in tech or sales for a small business unless you really, really like the abuse. I'm happy to see light at the end of the tunnel.
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Aug 18, 2021 23:41
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Yeah that's a bit weird. If I was paid 8x my current salary I would retire in a few years from the investments I would make alone. They must be at a minimum wage/starter or intern wage. It is not. It is a poo poo tier small business in hospitality.
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Aug 19, 2021 00:56
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I got passed to the next round of interviews. I would be going back to my previous industry and getting paid software money again, whereas right now I'm paid basically mid-tier administrative assistant at a small business in the US money, while doing a lot of things at a sub-ten-person company. Compensation range for potential new job is in line with previous jobs I had before my life exploded, I moved 3000 miles and had to take this job to scratch by.
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Aug 19, 2021 11:16
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Also, I know y'all are mostly engineers, but laying this out: People in hospitality and hospitality connected industries including distribution and logistics are paid much less and overworked basically to the point of breaking at all times, but especially currently. There are not benefits offered generally at all, you are kept to less than full time hours on a schedule but often work 60+ hours a week, your title does not come with additional compensation, and bonuses are things that happen to other people. I've worked in a distribution office the entire pandemic, plus six months before that. I do everything from direct order management to sales negotiation to doing software and hardware support to being the administrator for our ERP. It's a lot of hats, I am very tired and I really look forward to not getting 4am emails with someone screaming they're out of product X and we HAVE to overnight it RIGHT NOW or else we all get poo poo canned. I would have walked earlier but live in one of those places that you can't get unemployment if you quit, and they will fight you on it if you try. And I don't currently have the kind of support network that would let me do that with any sort of safety net because of aforementioned life explosion. So I'm applying for things and sending out lifelines and one maybe came through. I have a different interview lined up with a different place Friday afternoon post-work; again, a previous industry and role I've held, touching computers primarily, with benefits and compensation in line with what I previously made, fully remote, with actual equipment provided.
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Aug 19, 2021 11:26
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I've straight up told people that if they have the skills and land another job, just loving walk, it's not worth staying in this loving industry.
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Aug 19, 2021 14:49
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Outrail posted:Burn this idiot system to the ground. I have to fight to pay staff a living wage and it might not even be feasible in the long run. Yup. They worked my last order processing/customer service person so hard they had a mental breakdown at work and got picked up by their spouse and we never heard from them again. I did their last paycheck via direct deposit as soon as payroll hit. My boss still poo poo talks them, about how they're "just aren't dedicated to the cause." Bruh, we sell people boxes and the boxes go in the truck and the trucks go to hubs and then to other trucks and then people use the thing and throw it away. It's not like we're loving out here saving lives. It's literally creating more waste that leads to the heat death of the universe in an industry that should be focused on safety but is instead saying "sure thing, bring your deadly viruses here!!!!" I hate this poo poo.
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Aug 19, 2021 15:45
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I just asked for a day off so I can go have a tooth pulled that I broke grinding my teeth. I was told "we can't really spare anyone right now." Just a few more weeks.
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Aug 19, 2021 15:48
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They straight up fired someone who had a miscarriage this week, so, yeah they do have the balls. They genuinely do not give a gently caress about humans, this is why I'm trying to get out.
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Aug 19, 2021 16:47
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zedprime posted:I think the problem here is going to be once they get done firing everybody for illegal reasons they aren't gonna get any valuable work done and they'll go bankrupt before they pay out for any lawsuits. Yes exactly, it's circling the drain hard and fast. They lost three major contracts due to my boss literally telling people to go gently caress themselves over and over.
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Aug 19, 2021 17:12
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Lol. We don't have HR. We have my boss, who owns the C-corp.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:02
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Also what performance evaluations? I get screamed at. That's it. I sold a multi million dollar contract and got told I don't know how to sell and that I'm stupid, and also, I still get paid hourly with no commission. This is what people don't get. I mean small business, sub ten people, in hospitality. We sell stuff to hotels. It's a pandemic and supply chains are hosed.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:04
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zedprime posted:I'm speaking generally because we've already established there's no blood left in your stone. But what I don't get for you, and it's honestly because I don't know your background, location, skillset finances etc. So maybe it isn't as sure as a shot in the logistic markets I'm adjacent to, is why you don't just no show and get a $5k sign on for picking pallets somewhere where you get in line for a clerk/sales position that if it isn't open yet will be in weeks. I don't know a logistic sector that isn't in absolute chaos and paying bounties for truck drivers, fork drivers, clerks etc. because everyone is calling everyone's bluff. I'm not picking pallets. I don't want a sales clerk position. I am not forklift certified. I was hired to answer the phone and send emails. I physically *cannot* pick pallets and poo poo, that's why I took the office gig and it turned into this poo poo show. I'm not able bodied, I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and a lot of other things happening; my background is pretty chaotic because I run a textile business for myself that has been entirely sidelined by the pandemic and this job taking over everything, and prior to leaving the west coast, I'm a professional computer janitor that worked at three of the FAANG companies. Prior to that, I worked in hospitality: first car rental corporate sales, then hotels, then finally I got the gently caress out. My degrees are in physics. I left the west coast as soon as I could for deeply hosed up personal reasons and I miss it every day because now I'm stuck in a poo poo tier state, but at least I like the city I'm in. It's fine.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:29
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Like the very frustrating part is I just want to be locked in a closet with a really hard math problem and be left alone.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:40
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goatface posted:It's a shame academia is hosed. Hard agree. I would hilariously be making less if I had stayed in.
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Aug 19, 2021 20:43
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"I need you to come in at 3am to check in this container from Canada." "I can't, I have plans already on the schedule." "Oh, can you move them?" "No, I cannot move my sleep schedule."
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Aug 19, 2021 23:25
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Walmart has the Walmart Chant. I spent four years from high school to college being forced to do it. We were also told that they couldn't tell us who to vote for, but it would be in our best interests to vote for George W. Bush, because he would protect the company's interests.
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Aug 25, 2021 02:38
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Barudak posted:My company is out of stock into next year so badly they've already pre-emptively asked me to not do so much next year. Same. Except the company owner is trying to make me actively prospect for new customers. And we won't have stock for 95% of our items until February. The best part is that he's leaving to go to Croatia today for...idk. I don't know why anyone would fly to Eastern Europe in a pandemic. But he is. And I'll be long gone from here by February.
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Sep 1, 2021 14:54
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We have had backorders open since March 2020 that people are still expecting and I'm supposed to keep kicking the can down the road because my boss sees customers as ATMs and workers as bagmen.
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Sep 1, 2021 14:55
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Blowdryer posted:Croatia is incredibly beautiful and covid isn't bad there right now My boss is unvaccinated and very stupid, this is still a terrible idea.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:03
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I eagerly await him getting turned away at the border tbh.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:03
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Meanwhile, I have an interview for a WFH job that is more my wheelhouse and no sales, and I don't have to talk on the phone or go to meetings. I would very much like this job that has a normal schedule, with benefits and a better salary, so I don't have to ever leave my goon hovel again.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:05
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Barudak posted:I had a mandatory on camera call today and I actually swore under my breath as I rooted around for the clean business shirts I havent touched in years This is why I use a photo and tell them that for security purposes I cannot be on video. They generally don't question it because I worked for Big Infosec Firm some time ago for a long while and the people who demand on camera meetings don't genuinely understand that I'm being a poo poo.
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Sep 1, 2021 15:12
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Boss update: lol he's stuck in NYC indefinitely in the aftermath of a hurricane and he has done this entirely to himself Enjoy trying to get to Eastern Europe now I guess
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Sep 2, 2021 17:24
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Barudak posted:Nobody is going to the website with the QR code we put on the product! I feel great joy
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Local Weather posted:The CEO of the last company I worked for was forced out for being in charge of one of the most disasterous projects in American corporate history and yet somehow was paid over $65 million to leave. poo poo like this should cause unrest yet things just continue rolling along. I guess I can rest well knowing that I'll never be paid enough to retire in absolute loving luxury for causing a disaster that almost bankrupts the company and causes enough damage to permanently affect the global status of said company for the foreseeable future. You either also worked at Palm-then-HP or this country sucks even more than I thought.
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Sep 7, 2021 13:23
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Lol I rejected one offer wholesale and sent a counter offer to another place and then had five more requests for interviews at other places before they've returned other offers. Also my current boss just tried to sell me the company. No thanks buddy, that ship sailed a year ago when I offered. It's cursed now.
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Sep 9, 2021 19:41
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Critical posted:i had two interviews scheduled yesterday. the first was virtual, the second was in person. really wanted the first one and the other one was backup. gently caress yeah, I'm proud of you
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If you'd like to use a collective noun for someone or a group of people, ask the people you're grouping. I don't identify as "native American" or "Indian" but I do identify as Muscogee. It's...not hard.
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