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Krispy Wafer posted:At my yearly review my manager talked specifically about how much the company values its employees and is trying to retain talent and then gave me a 21 cent per hour raise. What a way to find out I'm not considered talent. Man that's the loving truth. My company announced 2 years ago that they were going to implement a 5 year plan to become a "Employer of choice" to attract and retain the best talent. Annual reviews came out 3 months later and everyone was capped at a 2% raise increase oh and they restructured paid time off so now everybody gets less time off a year. Yay!
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A few years back my megacorp offered a very generous voluntary severance package to nearly everyone in the company. I can't speak for everyone else but it was nearly half of my salary in a good job market so... twist my arm, guess I'll gtfo. I remember thinking at the time that they'll screw themselves over if it turns out to be a popular option. So much internal knowledge and experience could be gone in a flash. Aaaand it turns out it was mostly the high performers who took the money and ran. I later heard from HR-related sources that their conclusion was "Well, we're never doing that again."
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Trabant posted:A few years back my megacorp offered a very generous voluntary severance package to nearly everyone in the company. I can't speak for everyone else but it was nearly half of my salary in a good job market so... twist my arm, guess I'll gtfo. I remember thinking at the time that they'll screw themselves over if it turns out to be a popular option. So much internal knowledge and experience could be gone in a flash. It astonishes me how few corporations follow best practices. They all do literally the opposite of what my capstone corporate management class taught me (I'm an Accountant). Legit baseline adequacy requires you respect your workers as human beings. Building resentment on your workforce is going to skyrocket turnover, and turnover is EXPENSIVE.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 15:41 |
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IBM had that problem. Both my mom and aunt retired from there so I grew up surrounded by all things IBM. But from 2000 I only met one IBMer who was still with the company. Everyone else took a package and left. Some of them needed to go, but enough were valuable that having a former co-worker come back as a highly paid contractor became a running joke. IBM still has a lot of employees (350k to be exact), but most are overseas. They hollowed out their domestic operations.
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A lot of the old tech behemoths seem to have gone that way. Xerox, for example. There were some externalities they had to deal with, sure, but most of their misfortune was brought about by themselves, and pissing all over their employees was part of that.
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BloodBag posted:Kirkwood & Westheimer in Houston. That's almost the exact same as Vegas, thought I think the Gamestop and Games Workshop are a bit father apart, there's a Kohls or something like that in between them. Krispy Wafer posted:Occasionally someone will figure out the value of employee retention. Wal-Mart used that as one of their reasons for boosting pay, which while still lower than it should be, forced every other big retailer to do the same. I think Costco is one of the few publicly traded non tech companies usually near the tops of these lists, and the key to their success with their employees is that the CEO tells shareholders to gently caress off when they demand stuff. Of course, that can't last forever. uli2000 has a new favorite as of 18:58 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Also Costco actually pays their people
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Krispy Wafer posted:IBM had that problem. Both my mom and aunt retired from there so I grew up surrounded by all things IBM. But from 2000 I only met one IBMer who was still with the company. Everyone else took a package and left. Some of them needed to go, but enough were valuable that having a former co-worker come back as a highly paid contractor became a running joke. IBM actually has the exact opposite problem. For years they've been illegally targeting older employees for layoffs so they can replace them with younger (cheaper) ones. They've been trying to disguise this illegal action by coercing those employees into taking voluntary retirement packages (with a lot of legal baggage attached) and simply lying to federal regulators by misclassifying layoffs as voluntary retirements (it's not voluntary if the options are "resign or be fired") to try to avoid penalties for age discrimination. Here's the big story about it from last year, and there have been some updates since: https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/ EDIT: quote:Among ProPublica’s findings, IBM: Slanderer has a new favorite as of 20:11 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Having worked a a “top ten employer to work for”, let me assure you those titles are bought and paid for.
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Slanderer posted:IBM actually has the exact opposite problem. For years they've been illegally targeting older employees for layoffs so they can replace them with younger (cheaper) ones. They've been trying to disguise this illegal action by coercing those employees into taking voluntary retirement packages (with a lot of legal baggage attached) and simply lying to federal regulators by misclassifying layoffs as voluntary retirements (it's not voluntary if the options are "resign or be fired") to try to avoid penalties for age discrimination. Oh sure, every year my mom would complain about IBM's latest effort to crack open their pension treasure chest. One year the plan was to take away their pensions, but boost their 401k's by X amount every year and that would somehow compensate. IBM's reputation with older employees is abysmal, but a lot of the people I've met who left did so during their prime working years in the 1990's. IBM didn't care who they got rid of then, they just wanted to unload people. They got really good at targeting the older employees by the 2000's. I get it. IBM is an old tech hardware company that has managed to survive and even thrive in the services realm. That's not easy and had they continued doing business as usual they'd be dead or far smaller now. But they've survived by becoming a miserable company.
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FrozenVent posted:Having worked a a “top ten employer to work for”, let me assure you those titles are bought and paid for. Same, We're #1 in one of the publications and we're leaking like a sieve in terms of SME Employees vyst has a new favorite as of 22:00 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Sieve, or do civs have poor bladder control?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Also Costco actually pays their people Yup, in my area the lowest paid that I've seen is around $19-20/hour starting out - being in a place where cost of living isn't absurd helps too, so that wage can actually pay for quite a bit.
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FrozenVent posted:Having worked a a “top ten employer to work for”, let me assure you those titles are bought and paid for. I have worked at 2 in the top 25 and even though they were poo poo jobs as far as they could never be meaningful or fun, they tried really hard to treat us well so I look back on those jobs more fondly than my "good" jobs. But I could see how that was not enough for some people, and in the end it was too much for me in one of the jobs, which lead to me quitting it.
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Croatoan posted:Man that's the loving truth. My company announced 2 years ago that they were going to implement a 5 year plan to become a "Employer of choice" to attract and retain the best talent. Annual reviews came out 3 months later and everyone was capped at a 2% raise increase oh and they restructured paid time off so now everybody gets less time off a year. Yay! I got dinged in my bi-annual review for things that are demonstrably untrue. Gonna totally eat poo poo for my bonus.
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Queen Combat posted:Sieve, or do civs have poor bladder control? Oh poo poo, good call.
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Every company has poo poo jobs. Facebook ranks high on those lists and they give their contractors literal PTSD. Still, you be marginally confident working for a top rated company is going to be better than a bottom feeder one. Usually things like benefits and PTO weigh on those scores.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Every company has poo poo jobs. Facebook ranks high on those lists and they give their contractors literal PTSD. Contractors don't usually get those nice things. That's why they contract out the cheap work.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Every company has poo poo jobs. Facebook ranks high on those lists and they give their contractors literal PTSD. *panting*"poo poo i heard a CEO had his dick out and I had to find my chapstick, he leave yet?"
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FrozenVent posted:Having worked a a “top ten employer to work for”, let me assure you those titles are bought and paid for.
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Mustached Demon posted:Contractors don't usually get those nice things. That's why they contract out the cheap work. One of those places was Intuit and I was a contractor and they treated me very well. Like obviously we weren't getting the benefits, but as far as on-campus perks we got access to everything employees did, with the exception of the Gym which we had to pay $5 a month to use. Tech training, dirt cheap but very good food, a free arcade, unlimited catered coffee, wellness stuff, etc. Honestly the job was so dumb and I was hired to do something that should have been automated, and in fact was before the end of the contract (that they still honored to the end anyway even though we were no longer needed) but I've never been treated better at any job, straight up. Rick has a new favorite as of 08:07 on Jun 14, 2019 |
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The ThinkGeek website is shutting down, with a remnant surviving on GameStop’s website.quote:On July 2nd, 2019, ThinkGeek.com will be moving in with our parent company GameStop. After this move, you will be able to shop a curated selection of unique items historically found on ThinkGeek.com via a ThinkGeek section at GameStop. This news combined with GameStop’s current woes makes me wonder if it’ll last the year.
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AhahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHA gently caress YOU THINKGEEK
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Gann Jerrod posted:The ThinkGeek website is shutting down, with a remnant surviving on GameStops website. Lol!!!!!!
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Do we hate Think geek because they sell overpriced garbage to self-identified autists who think that their stuff is a substitute for a personality or is there another reason?
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Beachcomber posted:Do we hate Think geek because they sell overpriced garbage to self-identified autists who think that their stuff is a substitute for a personality or is there another reason? I dunno, when i see thinkgeek, my brain keeps wanting to translate it to mindgeek. They don’t belong in this thread.
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Beachcomber posted:Do we hate Think geek because they sell overpriced garbage to self-identified autists who think that their stuff is a substitute for a personality or is there another reason? Leave the autism out of it. Think Geek sells overpriced garbage to self-identified geeks looking to fill out an empty personality with overpriced garbage advertised as geeky.
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 11:36 |
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My ex-gf bought me these Star Wars bookends that were like $150 canadian dollars for a xmas or bday gift: https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e56f/ Which was odd because I already had bookshelves for my books and this just added clutter. Hell if you thought I enjoyed Star Wars so much, why wouldn't you have gotten me like Star Wars books instead? Pretty sure she got the gift idea from Big Bang Theory
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Fried Watermelon posted:Which was odd because I already had bookshelves for my books and this just added clutter. Hell if you thought I enjoyed Star Wars so much, why wouldn't you have gotten me like Star Wars books instead? Maybe she assumed you wanted to continue liking Star Wars. Though it would feel pretty weird to use those for pretty much anything but Star Wars books. It's like that home theatre setup, it'd feel hella weird to watch anything but Star Wars on it, maybe Star Trek if you're feeling perverse.
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Rick posted:One of those places was Intuit and I was a contractor and they treated me very well. Like obviously we weren't getting the benefits, but as far as on-campus perks we got access to everything employees did, with the exception of the Gym which we had to pay $5 a month to use. Tech training, dirt cheap but very good food, a free arcade, unlimited catered coffee, wellness stuff, etc. Honestly the job was so dumb and I was hired to do something that should have been automated, and in fact was before the end of the contract (that they still honored to the end anyway even though we were no longer needed) but I've never been treated better at any job, straight up. The benefits are the nice things. Rest of that stuffs just fluff.
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Gann Jerrod posted:The ThinkGeek website is shutting down, with a remnant surviving on GameStops website. I remember when thinkgeek was a small independent company with a variety of linux T-shirts! This seems like a bad idea as I figure the only way gamestop will survive in any fashion will be to convert entirely into a pop culture store. Why remove any of the thinkgeek brand, do they really think anyone thinks positively of gamestop? Whatever, hot topic or someone will probably buy the scraps when they finally go bankrupt.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Games Workshop is its own story where they actually managed to pull themselves out of a tailspin after they changed their management from being what amounted to an insular corporate cult that literally didn't do market research at all. Their liberal licensing policy when it comes to video games was a massive help too. Whole bunch of Warhammer games, several of them actually good, was a giant help for them.
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Didn't their liberal licensing policy happen because they refused to give Blizzard the license for a Warhammer RTS in the 90s so they filed the serial numbers off and made Warcraft?
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There's a physical ThinkGeek store at a mall near me. I wonder if it's gonna go belly up or convert to a GameStop. ThinkGeek has always been super overpriced bullshit. I do however own a cookie jar I got there like 10 years ago and still use it.
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Gann Jerrod posted:The ThinkGeek website is shutting down, with a remnant surviving on GameStop’s website. Ouch for ThinkGeek. Probably a benefit to GameStop for whatever it's worth. But I seem to recall TG recently opening a bunch of physical stores. Guess they overestimated geeks' willingness to leave the house
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I stumbled across a ThinkGeek store at the mall this week. There's already a GameStop there and another one a few miles down the street. I didn't go in, but it looked like a Spencers without the dick and weed jokes. And oh lord those StarWars bookends are awful. Here I was thinking it'd probably be a death star or Millennium Falcon but no.
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Croatoan posted:There's a physical ThinkGeek store at a mall near me. I wonder if it's gonna go belly up or convert to a GameStop. ThinkGeek has always been super overpriced bullshit. I do however own a cookie jar I got there like 10 years ago and still use it. Is it a Tardis?
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Fried Watermelon posted:My ex-gf bought me these Star Wars bookends that were like $150 canadian dollars for a xmas or bday gift: I often wonder why people have book ends in TYOOL 2019. Either you have books and your bookshelves are like mine and have book filling out every last niche possible and then some, or you don't. There really isn't much of an in between anymore, that would justify a device specifically built to keep books from falling over. Glad to see that you severed from a BBT watcher though.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Didn't their liberal licensing policy happen because they refused to give Blizzard the license for a Warhammer RTS in the 90s so they filed the serial numbers off and made Warcraft? In short, yes In long, lmao yes
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I mean given Warhammer basically started as off-brand Lord of the Rings figures and then proceeded to found further franchises by wholesale ripping off Starship Troopers, Judge Dredd, Dune and Alien...
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