Dugong posted:

Is there a thread for terrible LinkedIn posts? If not, there really should be.

Quandary posted:

Honestly though, this. I've noticed a shocking change in reactions to data and analysis after spending like 15 minutes making it look MBA like and professional. It's the same drat data, but all of a sudden everyone thinks you're a superhero.

Sundae posted:

If it really just is a need for a change of pace, try working from another office, a break room, etc etc. Sometimes a change of scenery helps. Make yourself unavailable and tell people you're in lockdown until you finish (whatever).

Maybe change your hours up if you can. Sleep in late, show up at noon, and then once everyone leaves, crank up the music and slam out the work by 9PM. Again, change of pace is all.

Of course, if you work in the standard corporate hell that refuses to let you do any of these things, you could instead try drinking copious amounts of alcohol from a concealed flask and praying for death and/or sugar high.

Mokelumne Trekka posted:

What's the lowest raise you've gotten? Just curious as someone who the other month got less than 3%. Of course context, career, pay rate, etc matters and its probably in the eye of the beholder...

upsidedown posted:

Any advice on recovering from burnout? I would but I'm an Australian working in the U.K. and need a company to sponsor my visa.

A bit of background:

• Colleague has a kid.
  
• Director bends over backwards to place colleague with Client closer to his home so he doesn't find another job.
  
• I get colleague's work on top of mine.
  
• Over the next couple of months I get assigned to 2 more major projects (think new highway/subway line scale) and at least 1 smaller one.
  
• Figure out I've been assigned to various projects at a rate of 10 days / week. When I explain this to Director I get told basically to suck it up.
  
• Colleague somehow still has role to chase up client invoicing in main office, so he keeps bugging me to invoice for my projects when I'm too busy doing his loving job.
  
• Over the last couple of months I manage to offload or complete most of my projects and the 2 major projects, so just have colleague's job left.
  
• Performance review marks me as average. Promotion or pay rise is based on obtaining Professional Accreditation regardless of how hard I work.
  
• Have such a backlog of work and am so used to half-arsing stuff to meet deadlines that my work is poor quality.
  
• Get called out by another Director for poor quality work. The same Director I need to sponsor my Professional Accreditation and get a pay rise.
  

I really feel between a rock and a hard place. I can't get any recognition for the work I do unless I get accreditation. I can't get accreditation because I have so much work to do that I can't do it properly.

upsidedown posted:

Extracting myself in any way will be pretty complicated. I've been with the employer for about 18 months but only on the sponsored visa for 6 after my working holiday visa ran out. Bailing and going back to Australia would land me with a £3000 bill for paying back visa fees for my partner and me (this runs down to zero after 2 years). I'd have to get help from family back home to cover both this and airfares.

spog posted:

I would suggest that what you need to do is have a private meeting with Another Director.
Explain your workload and that you are unhappy with being unable to complete your work competently.

Then, make it your personal policy to not half-rear end anything.
If you don't have time to do a task, simply fold your arms and refuse to do it until you complete your current one.
If anyone complains (and they will) - simply point to the list of jobs that you have neatly printed out on your office wall.

upsidedown posted:

I speak some German and would love to work in Germany, but without an EU passport I don't know how possible it is?

I don't think I will get a sympathetic ear with Director #2 but my Team Leader (reports to Director #1) is in my corner so I'm going to try that path. Me leaving would mean a lot of extra work for him.


I'm a civil engineer. Nothing special, but I was able to get a foot in the door on a working holiday visa and fill a need that had been unfilled for a while. I don't know what it is but civil engineers are hard to find. Like 5 have left in my time in this job and they've only found 1 replacement despite pretty constant advertising. They're gonna be hosed after Brexit if all the Spaniards and Greeks have to go home.

upsidedown posted:

I'd need to work pretty hard on my German to get it to a level to competently apply for jobs.

Renegret posted:

gently caress that I wish I could do jury duty ever year.

I get my regular pay for doing no work and get an hour and a half lunch break?

Higgy posted:

I think you already know the answer.

therobit posted:

Sniff their crotches instead.

Chaotic Flame posted:

7:00am client calls are the worst

Zero Gravitas posted:

... unhappy with job in Norway ...

John Smith posted:

Sort of. But I was thinking more that he should have researched the situation in Norway more clearly before he went. Unless he did realize that it is very difficult to find a job in his industry in Norway, and yet still went.

Basically, my point is that he ***cannot*** achieve all his objectives. Therefore, he must weight the different objectives and accept the trade-offs. Below links offer more detail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_decision

Right now, he (and some of the posters?) seems to be trying to find a solution that ends up with him happy (all objectives met). He should abandon such an attempt because it cannot be done and said failure to achieve it will only distress him and waste his resources. But you know, apparently not suggesting a magical fairyland is beyond the pale here in SA. drat, you guys are real hardcore leftists? Nothing is ever anybody's fault, and nothing can ever be done about anything. I am not sure how some of you function in real life.

Moridin920 posted:

Holy poo poo

John Smith posted:

I have a question. Why did you attempt this high-risk project? If I understand you correctly, your only reward was some minor recognition. What is the punishment for failure?

I recently proposed a high-risk project to Management, and I am worried about my payout if it works (and punishment if it doesn't). How did yours work?

C-Euro posted:

Eric the Mauve posted:

It's always fascinating watching a ship go down while its captain and officers smile and tell everyone "iceberg? what iceberg? "

Tnuctip posted:

I have wet dreams about getting to present and getting a new job before the convention, so i can be announced as Tnuctip, formerly of X but now with Y. Is this normal??

Sydin posted:

It's not where, it's who. Engineers love to tout seniority and years.

The Sean posted:

Immediately. That's a bunch of deep-rooted nonsense. Also, I'm not an expert in EE education, but traditionally these programs don't have a ton of liberal arts/social science education that would encourage appreciation of diversity, despite "high competence" in the actual field.

spog posted:

At the point where they are clearly derogatory, illegal or causing a hostile workplace.

Before then, HR won't/can't do anything.

Both of those comments aren't clearly negative enough and could be defended as innocuous:

"They hired a woman?.......that's great, we need more diversity in the workplace
"she didn't look what I had pictured in my mind at all......I was expecting someone older/younger/more like my cousin"

Keetron posted:

I suddenly realized that maybe, just maybe, getting the score "meets expectations" which basically means "of average capabilities and we don't see him going far" does actually mean that one is of avg use to that org. And it also might be very possible that being an average worker is the best that is attainable to most people. And very probably, everyone who is not owner of the business or has the right connections, is doomed to remain stuck in the thick layer of mediocrity... As a matter of fact, I think most management is poo poo at managing, planning, communication and assessing their workers and struggle not to get fired themselves.

Basically, everyone receiving "meets expectation" is doing no more than "meeting expectation" and there is little you can do about it but

Discendo Vox posted:

Give your talk at one of the parties, once word has spread about the cause of the cancellation.

Sundae posted:

While the math of this is funny, it's effectively true in a lot of places, especially if there have been multiple rounds of layoffs. Shorthand of my time at PFE: 7 rounds of layoffs (every 6 months), each taking the bottom 10-20% plus others as required. Mandatory 5-10% getting "failed to meet expectations" as part of the curve, whether they succeeded in their goals or not, and then they'd be cut in the next wave. Each time this cut the talent pool more and more, until eventually people who had never gotten less than a "meets" were failing to meet expectations in spite of literal product launches / phase 3 clinical successes that year. It was impressively bad. I "met expectations" in my final review with a FDA approval and a separate product launch under my belt for the year. (I then took two days of vacation to go get married, came back to the office, and was greeted by my pink slip. )

Keetron posted:

- don't do concalls, they destroy your will to live

yeah I eat rear end posted:

If that's the first assumption that kind of deflates my balloon a bit, but if they want to talk to me that's at least better than throwing me in the trash. At the very least it will be practice for interviewing for jobs like that.

VanguardFelix posted:

I have a situation I’m not sure how to handle. A PM severely hosed a TM bid, won the quote and now has a PO double or triple the amount it needs to be. He will not complete the project under the PO amount because the client already banned us from fixed price for them seeing behind the curtain at how badly we were loving them, and is concerned they’ll drop us entirely for doing it on a TM job.

He has instructed a couple of us what we WILL be billing the project the next couple of weeks even though the work is done, and I’m not comfortable with complete bullshit billing practices like that. I’m supposed to enter 90 more hrs on this project and have nothing left to do.

I’m going to speak with him about how I’m not okay with it, but what’s reasonable next steps after that fails? I can enter my actual hours but either he or the office manager will likely override the time sheet on the back end.

BOOTY-ADE posted:

... They called me back about 7 months after I left to try to offer me more money to come back, I laughed and hung up the phone because gently caress that noise.

Volmarias posted:

This is the way you learn that you've been fired.

Shugojin posted:

Another:

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Job Description
To come

Keetron posted:

That company needs an HR person and this is their way of communicating that.

Much like the city of Los Angeles in an actual wanted ad.

VanguardFelix posted:

Well that may well be the worst interview I’ve ever had. Given what the company was looking for I honestly shouldn’t have made it past the initial phone screen. If I were a more suspicious person I’d figure they have some HR requirement for at least one external candidate to be interviewed on-site.

It was bad enough the hiring manager apologized to me afterwards for not preparing me and the people interviewing me for the gaps in my knowledge base. That bad.

Time to drink and pickle myself in the hotel hot tub

Discendo Vox posted:

That's loving beautiful, that is. It's TYOOL 2018, why do people still not read documentation?

Hoodwinker posted:

Ah I see you've met my old next door neighbors.

Weatherman posted:

Discendo Vox posted:

Eric the Mauve posted:

Personally I'm partial to