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Stop giving so much of yourself to a company that couldn't give a gently caress less, work to rule from now on
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For real. That place sounds lovely as hell. Stop exhausting yourself over it.
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I'm trying to tell myself this as well, but your job right now is finding a new job. NOT doing any more than the bare loving minimum for the company that technically employs you right now. You just have to work on not caring about being perceived as doing a bad job by the clients for your current company, because unless they would be people you're working with at the next company, it doesn't matter. I'm finding that mentally accepting being perceived as doing a bad job (which as we're in a service industry, all of us are theoretically doing our best to get the exact opposite reaction), is REALLY difficult, but at some point it is better for you and your mental health to be OK with that for the time being if it gets you to a new place. You got this, you will find a new place, and it will be better.
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Jan 7, 2023 00:04
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Well said, couldn't agree more. And good luck with your own search!
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Yea, this isn't normal or healthy, and the business is likely to start experiencing significant financial hardships unless several people who are not you manage to resolve their cranial/anal intersection. I'll say it again with bold letters: This is not how a healthy organization operates. Evacuate immediately. Minimum effort obviously won't get punished immediately, so they get lip service while all your real effort goes to finding your next role.
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I genuinely love that every iteration of this thread since the dawn of time has included ImJackBrentwood
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I genuinely love that every iteration of this thread since the dawn of time has included ImJackBrentwood It's legit one of my favorite IT stories ever.
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KozmoNaut posted:"Urgent" is even better, it sends people a reminder every 20 minutes. It's better than that. Every 2 minutes for 20 minutes. At least, that's what my notification options says. Wizard of the Deep posted:Yea, this isn't normal or healthy, and the business is likely to start experiencing significant financial hardships unless several people who are not you manage to resolve their cranial/anal intersection. And if you want to do one last thing to attempt to help the company, and I totally get why you would, put all of that you just unloaded into your resignation. Tell them exactly WHY you are resigning. It's possible, even likely, nothing will change, but it definitely won't change if you don't tell them. If you've already told them, well, then tell them "gently caress you, you didn't listen."
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Jan 9, 2023 22:30
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4 job interviews came in after a year of nothing. 2023 looking good already 
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The Fool posted:hell yeah
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2023 is the year of the job
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kensei posted:It's legit one of my favorite IT stories ever. 500 mile email
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A Frosty Witch posted:4 job interviews came in after a year of nothing. Got my fingers crossed for you
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A Ticket came in:quote:WHERE
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User: "Thank you so much, I never would have figured this out myself!" Myself, who googled how to turn off paragraph markers in Outlook and clicked the top result: 
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RFC2324 posted:500 mile email just in case someone needs to re-/read: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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Renegret posted:A Ticket came in: Users asking the hard hitting questions
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Renegret posted:A Ticket came in: Send the reply as WHY
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Zil posted:Send the reply as WHY WHEN
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Christe Eleison posted:just in case someone needs to re-/read: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html This is my favorite tech support story. And I got to use the speed of light to solve a ticket myself once! The 500-mile email was my inspiration.
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It's a very good story And shows a competency I can only dream of reaching someday
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Renegret posted:It's a very good story There were some true giants in the industry in those early days
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I think I've finally hit the point in my career and age that my jaded outlook on everything has resulted in a personality that exudes confidence, but is mostly just me not being able to give a poo poo anymore. I have an interview in an hour and normally I'd be pacing and tearing my hair out and rehearsing questions but today I'm finding it really hard to care. I'm going to roll in there, put on my customer service voice, act like I want to be there, answer some questions, and then take the mask off and go back to my spreadsheets mildly annoyed that I was taken away from them in the first place. Did I do it? Am I finally IT?
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A Frosty Witch posted:4 job interviews came in after a year of nothing. Renegret posted:A Ticket came in: WHAT
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A Frosty Witch posted:I think I've finally hit the point in my career and age that my jaded outlook on everything has resulted in a personality that exudes confidence, but is mostly just me not being able to give a poo poo anymore. Congrats. Not appearing desperate for the job is probably a positive.
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Thanks Ants posted:Congrats. Not appearing desperate for the job is probably a positive. I'll make sure to tell them that when the interview starts. HELLO I'M NOT DESPERATE OR NERVOUS AT ALL OK A Y
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It's good to feel an amount of balance between confidence and nervousness going into an interview. Kind of like dating, I guess.
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A Frosty Witch posted:I think I've finally hit the point in my career and age that my jaded outlook on everything has resulted in a personality that exudes confidence, but is mostly just me not being able to give a poo poo anymore. I mean a large chunk of professional confidence is not really giving a poo poo if other people think you're wrong because you're comfortable in your knowledge. "You want to do it a different way to how I propose boss? OK, here's the consequences of doing it that way instead of my way, just put that you want it doing the bad way in writing and I'll crack on with it." is something I'd absolutely say now but earlier in my career I'd be nervous of saying something like that in case I was wrong. These days the best bit of an interview for me is when I can talk about somewhere I hosed up, how I fixed it and what I learned from it, and twenty year ago me would be like a deer in the headlights with that sort of thing.
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A Frosty Witch posted:I think I've finally hit the point in my career and age that my jaded outlook on everything has resulted in a personality that exudes confidence, but is mostly just me not being able to give a poo poo anymore. No, to be proper IT you should still be bothered and develop a drinking problem.
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Aaaaaaand they ghosted me
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guppy posted:No, to be proper IT you should still be bothered and develop a drinking problem. A Frosty Witch posted:Aaaaaaand they ghosted me wolrah fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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RFC2324 posted:There were some true giants in the industry in those early days
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A Frosty Witch posted:Aaaaaaand they ghosted me That's such BS, sorry.
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To my mind, ghosting is just not replying to applications, or between interview rounds -- I wouldn't think of it as ghosting if they scheduled an interview and you were supposed to have it. Maybe their interviewer just forgot, which is pretty unprofessional but, you know, mistakes happen. Worth reaching out to let them know what happened, I would think?
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Probably not the literal interpretation of the phrase, but the sentiment is the same. He cancelled the first interview attempt half an hour before and rescheduled for today. I've asked him a few times to confirm the appointment but didn't get a response. The meeting was supposed to be today, and after 5 minutes of waiting I sent him a message reminding him. After half an hour I sent him another message letting him know I was closing the bridge and thanked him for the opportunity. I dunno. Feels like ghosting to me.
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Just consider it a dodged bullet. In like a week they'll try to reschedule again and you just say no.
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Internet Explorer posted:Break a leg.
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