workrant

[vipeboy2000]

cool, there seem to be lots of computer peoples on here.

there does seem to be ... SRE (site reliability engineer) here

 

[AusStinger]

All I can add is, we're all different. Our personalities are different. Our needs and wants are different. Our levels of tolerance are different.

What that all means is, take a look at the WHOLE/BIG picture and see what you want/need/can tolerate/enjoy/whatever, and do what's right for you.

Sometimes a completely fresh start is what's needed to kick you back into gear and sometimes you just do what you gotta do to get by.

Just don't go to work bitter and twisted. Life's too short.

I base the above on my 38 years in the work force.

 

[westcoastGT]

I spent 25 years working for mostly reasonable bosses. I’ve been self employed for the last 10 years and now I find myself working for a real bastard of a man.

Tell the old Fecker to stuff it mate ! then pour him a beer and make up ! bawaaaaa

 

[Deviate]

Tell the old Fecker to stuff it mate ! then pour him a beer and make up ! bawaaaaa

I did that about 3 months ago. Been where im at for 9+ yrs, and i told the owner i dont need the f'n job or the BS. Ill go flop fries for 15 an hour if i have too. Needless to say everyone in power came to see if i was ok and what they needed to do to help. Sometimes playing your cards ends up helping. And then theres times they have a better hand. I dont think i was lucky. just know that they need 3 to do what i do on a daily basis.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I base the above on my 38 years in the work force.

You guys. 38 years, 44 years, whatever. I barely made it just shy of 29 years, at ONE job: and I'm still recovering over 17 years later. Hah.

 

[Kimberly Lazarski]

What a wonderful opportunity, perhaps? Most people quit a job because of their supervisor, not the company.

In my case, I started preparing to leave early in july following a salary freeze when they threw tens of thousands in stock grants and an offer of a position I was striving for for six long years at me. It smelled fishy so I did not accept the stock grants in my brokerage account, and I used my workload as an excuse to not make time to accept or reject the promotion, and they laid off 10% of the workforce. The Indian reqs were a 1:1 match for the layoffs and the tone dead narcissist of a ceo sent our this buzzword-filled autofellatic DoubleSpeak email about how well we were doing and we are on track to be a 7 billion dollar company in three years and oh by the way don't worry about the workload because those teammates of yours we just sacked will be replaced by the reqs we posted in India this morning. What the actual f___!!

This is why I was in a mad rush to find the GT2 in July and August because I wanted to get the f*** out of the sinking ship - switching jobs even to a position paying 66% more can prevent financing from being approved so I was stuck until I found and bought the car. I originally took that job despite the low pay for the culture, and corporate raiders destroyed that and I needed to /get out/.

What kept me on through July was watching to see whether Apollo would being salaries in alignment with market. What they did instead was post 700 job reqs in India on July 26, then they sacked 10%, including half of my team. Our manager had no say in the matter. I saw a pattern which seemed to be based on health and age. I decided to proceed with rushing the car purchase and update my CV but with an eye to stick around until my immediate supervisor's termination date came. I became a whistle-blower 09/28 about ethics and the discrimination pattern (age and health - and the criteria they used was a massive HIPAA and ADA violation) and put in for PTO between then and my exit date. They retaliated, naturally. I am relieved that the whistle blowing didn't work against me for my new position; it actually sealed it.

I was originally intending to stay through January, but I couldn't stomach the ethics and immoral business practices and toxic environment any more. My boss was absolutely awesome and I still talk to him regularly but oh my God the stress and toxicity were so bad it was spilling over into my personal life.

The funny thing is... they are 15 years too late to get on the offshoring bandwagon because telecommuting has leveled the playing field for experienced and truly qualified Indian workers, so you're not going to find cheap _good_ talent in India any more. Instead you will find candidates who have plagiarized American and UK resumes/CVs and who have been coached for the interview but can't perform.

They offshored IT to the absolute cheapest labor they could find, and now the cluster that runs the most essential configuration management, ticketing, provisioning, and monitoring has bee going down for days at a time, because the grossly unqualified "right-shored" workers in IT don't know how storage and clusters work. (Former colleagues tell me everything that is going on whether I want to hear it or not. It ain't my problem any more!)

It is also the wrong time to freeze salaries because the market is white hot right now.

I tried to stay for my manager who is a most amazing person, but the company is sinking, the captain has taken the throttle and opened her up and steered the ship straight into a massive iceberg and sacking anyone who warns him that the ship is going to sink if he doesn't stop punching holes in the hull.

Oh, and those stock grants? If I had accepted them, I'd have taken a bath on taxes, because by the end of July the stock had lost over 50% of its value, and I'd have been taxed on the stocks based on the grant date. I dodged a bullet there.

 

[westcoastGT]

You guys. 38 years, 44 years, whatever. I barely made it just shy of 29 years, at ONE job: and I'm still recovering over 17 years later. Hah.

...................and so is your old boss !! hahahahahahaha!!!

 

[Kimberly Lazarski]

You guys. 38 years, 44 years, whatever. I barely made it just shy of 29 years, at ONE job: and I'm still recovering over 17 years later. Hah.

I'm jealous. However my new employer (I feel like I was drafted to the majors) has never had a layoff and turnover is only 1.3% so I am hoping to make this position last decades. Apart from my own company my longest tenure is just shy of 6.5 years.