I just love sitting through meetings where the people are griping about what they have to do, when their vacations are, how the projects are slipping… There is so much work in this company. That’s why I and others are being laid off, don’tcha know. I appreciate the month of work before being let go, but Dead Woman Walking is getting OLD fast.
I hate job hunting. I am so #*&$ close to retirement, too. And it looks like no matter where I go, I have 1+ hour commute. I used to do this all the time when I contracted. Now it’s just exhausting. Can I find something soon, please? Please?
Why yes, you fucking brown-noser, there’s nothing I would like more than to chip in money for a Boss’s day gift for the guy who was recently promoted over me (and is struggling to adjust, IMO).
(The money is actually being pooled to purchase gift cards for two other people as well – and the person who brought up Boss’s day initially suggested that we only collect for these two guys, since they had been our manager and supervisor for most of the year.)
Turns out I’m actually as bothered by a university-wide 1% raise for January as the 0% raise of the last three years when I wasn’t eligible for one. Oh, sure, they say there’s a possibility of getting up to 2% for merit too, but I’m not holding my breath despite a history of getting stellar reviews.
I think it bugs me so much because it’s less than the previous 1.5%, 2% and 2.5% raises I didn’t get because I wasn’t a benefited employee. Of course that pissed me off too, especially when I finally got benefits in December…and a letter saying “oh, by the way that raise we just announced **still **doesn’t apply to you.”
Really? You’re trying this passive-agressive bullshit with ME? Silly person. I was the queen of passive-agressive bullshit before you were old enough to walk! Plus - and here’s where I have the biggest advantage - I just don’t care. This may or may not end well for you, but I’ll be just fine, with hours of amusement to boot.
I actually have a new job offer. I really like what I do, I like the company I’m at, but I HATE HATE HATE all the newest department changes we’ve had since changing management.
I supervise an account, the fall season starts (post production, subtitles), we have more work coming, I email suggestions, new work-arounds, etc., nothing. No responses. No problems or meetings until i complain.
Granted we have a great fucking staff. I am spoiled by our supervisors. But I have newbies with no experience that are assigned to task this project and I feel the need to jump in and fix things before big failures happen. Yet I don’t have the rank or permission to do so. So it’s hard to continue at this company.
I also don’t feel like I have any chance at promotion, mainly because I am needed in my position. This is a GREAT thing. But not an expandable one it seems. I’ll get raises, but no new responsibilities.
My NEW offer, which I didn’t even search for happens to come from my old boss, who I loved working with. She is offering more money, but I work a lot of OT now (48-50 hours per week), same benefits, no 401K yet but that’s understandable. Plus all the OT I’ve worked I am ahead at investing in that.
The travel distance is exactly the same. No shit. It’s either make a right or left off the freeway and park at the appropriate office.
So would you jump ship? To summarize, you get a better boss, a chance at promotion, better pay, same benefits, NO OT (yet, but there will be), no 401K (yet, but there will be). Basically I’ll have better take home pay, less by a few bucks but an actual weekend to get things done at home. You’d be leaving a company you can trust for long term employment. New one is the same, but you’d have to build a rep with the other bosses. New start, yadda, yadda.
Any jumping ship advice is appreciated. I should really make this decision in, uhhh, 10 hours. So fire away, all Dopers. I’d appreciate any advice.
Locrian, since it sounds like you’ve been doing the same thing for a while without moving up, and since it sounds like you aren’t getting support to get things done (i.e., with the newbies), and since you think that you’re too valuable in your current job for your company to move you, I’d seriously consider jumping ship. If you aren’t already, you’re going to get very frustrated at some point.
Can you get an employment contract with the new company?
I say do it. It sounds like you’re not fully appreciated or respected at your current place and will be by at least one person in the new one. (I don’t know what ‘spoiled by your supervisors’ means, but if nobody listens to you when you suggest things that need doing, that sounds like a lack of respect and appreciation to me.) Getting better pay per unit time of work and more time for yourself sounds like a better option to me as well.
Jesus fuck. I have done little this week so far besides work on this marketing dickhead’s expense report. As usual, it’s full of mistakes and outright lies, but that’s for someone else to deal with. I just have to piece together all these raggedy little puzzle pieces of information and get it entered, signed, and approved…you know, along with answering the phone, doing all the lab purchasing, and other far more important shit. And I have done so in a timely fashion, pulling one or two shiny miracles out of my butt along the way. And all week this dude has been harassing me. “Is it done yet?” “How about now?” “I just wanted to check on the status of that.” “Do you think I’ll see the money by tomorrow?” “I was wondering if it was completed yet.” Not to mention, emailing me ten times a day and copying my supervisor and the guy in charge of the travel department.
I did everything I could do. And of course fucknut’s cash didn’t arrive this morning. I’ve had three emails already. Office shooting in Florida in 10…9…8…
Yet another person who expects you to defy the rules of time and physics to make up for something they didn’t do. I suppose he’s never thought that if he does things right, it won’t take so long for him to get his money. It’s a shame you can’t send it back to him and make him re-do it.
I have decided that it’s a bad strategy to do miracles at work. I work miracles on a pretty regular basis, and my supervisor now expects me to do miracles all the time, and that’s just not possible. It’s exhausting. I’ve decided that mediocre is the way to go. Lower expectations. No more miracles. Also I’m going to slow down and do things right no matter how long it takes. One thing at a time.
My supervisor refuses to check Outlook when I’m not in the office, and then she gets all mad because she doesn’t know where I am. :rolleyes:
Another vote for “go, Locrian!” It sounds as if the only reasons to stay would be inertia and fear of the unknown - you seem to have very little to lose and a lot to gain.
I probably shouldn’t reply to my American counterpart’s patronizing emails first thing in the morning. Having some asshole who didn’t know a certain field existed five weeks ago (despite theoretically being more senior than me) explain how important it is kind of sticks in my craw, so I answer in telegrams. Sharp ones. Bad Nava!
My half-coworker half-boss asked me “what did customer say/want?” and this customer is the biggest piece of shit pain in my ass. He couldn’t wait for the freakin’ proof that will simply and easily explain the 10 minutes of BS this customer just spewed to me over the phone. No, he had to know right now. My brain simply shut down at trying to parse 10 mintues of bullshit into something remotely understandable to someone else without being able to write it down first. What am I supposed to say? “She wanted to change everything we sent her” is the gist of it and that’s not exactly an answer to WHAT she wants changed. He looked blankly at me when I said that and said, “So? What does she want?”
So instead I half yelled at him that I just dealt with 10 minutes of BS, everything is changed, and to just look at the freakin’ proof when it was done and to stop bothering me about this customer already. Because CHRIST almighty does he stick his nose in business all the time where it doesn’t belong, into things he doesn’t understand, and asks stupid questions about it. Even if I told him all the changes she wanted he wouldn’t be able to understand half the words I said anyway. And he knows this and says so. But he asks me anyway, and it makes me mad because he doesn’t need to know more than 10% of it to do his job. He’s just fucking bothering me to satisfy his curiosity, and even if I bother wrapping my head around trying to explain stuff like I would to a 6 year old, he’ll still just reply, “Oh. I never did understand any technical stuff…” Yeah, like always, what a giant surprise it’s the 1000th repeat of this same exact scenario, what a waste of everyone’s time.
To do his job he looks at the proof and the one thing that changed for him is all he needs to look at. Everything else is cosmetic stuff I have to deal with and has no bearing on his job of giving customers the invoices. That’s it. Stop goddamn bothering me you pisslord!
ANYWAY, my job search results have been petering out recently. Let’s hope positions start opening up again come winter…
So our self-service portal vendor installed new software designed to make our site usable with portable devices, as well as more traditional stationary computers. We tested and approved it.
Now we have all kinds of users who can’t get in, because they need to clear their browser cache so that the new software will show up - otherwise they get garbage and an error message. And they’re all saying “I did that already and it still doesn’t work.”
Then I found out that the main page (that I never use because I go to the subordinate pages directly) is actually broken, and that may be the one that everyone is having problems with.
Stupid vendor for having a broken page. Stupid me for not testing that page. Stupid vendor support for not getting back to me yet (over an hour) about this issue.
Step 1: Be asked to honestly answer why our boss was rated so low in “Helps his people develop”. Say that it is because he doesn’t listen to what we want to do and argues with us about it (Straight out told me NO on something I wanted to do and “trust me, I have a plan for you” as if this isn’t my career and my interests don’t matter.)
Answer “where do you want to be in 5 years” by saying I’d love to still be in this job, but that would depend on our boss growing a spine and not throwing the entire team under the bus whenever the shit hits the fan. That he needs to stop micromanaging us and allow us to have the authority our positions are supposed to have.
Step 2: Reach my wit’s end with someone in another area stepping on our toes and overstepping their authority, after months of dealing with it. Ask manager for assistance. Manager starts nitpicking and attacking everything we’ve done to resolve the situation favorably, then basically says his solution is to throw our team under the bus.
And somehow, this will all be framed as me being uncooperative and argumentative.
Chimera, that rant looks awfully familiar to me for some reason.
Our new CEO is a master study in how to win friends and influence people. Not long after the takeover, he told all of our IT people (in person, to their faces) that IT support people were a dime a dozen, easily replaceable, and not particularly necessary.
The latest salvo (unconfirmed, but jeez) is that he thinks all the employees of the acquired company (that’d be the one I worked for) are lazy, overcompensated, and overindulged people who want to work at home in their pajamas. He doesn’t like people to work from home. He wants them in the office, all the time.
Anybody got a dunking stool handy? I think someone needs to be washed out of our lives.
I would say do it.
But the no 401K is the one that would bother me – that is a big hit, since it is multiplied by many years of tax-free investment gains. So figure out what your current employers 401K match amounts to in a year, and ask your old boss for something slightly less than that as a signing bonus. After all, your work qualities are known; it isn’t like they are signing up an unknown. (And DO make sure you invest that bonus, don’t spend it.)
This is a really hard decision-- until today and actually yesterday. I called my old/new boss today and we spoke for almost an hour. She’s offering me a 22% raise.
So… I am accepting.
Tough parts are: 1) Our new office won’t be entirely set up for two weeks, right at the time my notice will be up. We’ll be in meetings abound and training, testing methods, etc. 2) I’m losing people I REALLY like working with. I’ll especially miss my Tech supervisor. He was really the guy who hired me based on my past experience. 3) I expect some hostility from my new boss at my current job. I have never felt that she was qualified to handle the accounts I specialize in. She keeps a very closed-door management policy. For those of us who have experience in and out of our current company, she prefers to hire new people who are “interested” but not experienced. Is she afraid of competition? Criticism? Whatever.
Yesterday we had a quick meeting on new client policies/difficulties and how to work with them. I spent most of my time telling her HOW we do the work in the first place. She kept asking how one show is different from the next. I explained that not all shows video and scripts show up on a scheduled basis, how some materials we have to create from scratch, adjust worker schedules, etc. We’ve had this account for more than two years. Why she isn’t aware of the workflow I have NO idea. All she has to do is sit with me at my desk for less than an hour so she can see what and how I’m creating in order to meet a deadline. She’s refused my invites saying, “I can’t worry about that.” ???
What REALLY got me today was our newly hired and assigned people-- less than a year of experience-- arrive early to attend a meeting with executives and client reps. No notice was given to me about these meetings. At my new job, I’ll be supervising workflow and attending live and Skype meetings with bosses & client reps very frequently, at least in the beginning. No, there’s no contracts individually with post companies, unless I’m freelancing. I don’t ever want that experience again.
My old boss (the one who offered me this new opportunity, sorry if I’m confusing anyone) really reached out on a limb for me. She has plenty of resumes and old contacts she can hire. She set me up with a conference call meeting with the big bosses and they were impressed enough to let her float me an offer.
I’m going to be shocking the department I’m leaving as the main account I work on I do the majority of the work. Well, guess what. Our NEW boss had over one broadcast season to get familiar with it. Now she’s got two weeks. Since she is comfortable making decisions about it without my input, she’ll have to depend on the new people she assigned to take care of it.
Overall, I’ll be making the same amount of money in less time. When OT is available, I’ll get even more. When the 401K is available next year, even better. All my past OT has put me ahead of my 401K investments anyway and I need to have more liquid to do some home repairs.
My real concern is that I leave this company with a good attitude. You never know what will happen at a new biz opportunity. I will be leaving by saying many thank yous, many best of lucks, and no other reason than how this job is a new opportunity, and a new challenge I’d like to work with. I’m sure the people I currently work with would love to hire me back if needed, but their current management scheme would probably disagree if I point any fingers. This company has been very kind to me, and I will make sure I thank them for that.
So here’s to a new path, just a mile away, closer to a steak house, further from a 7-11.
I am a corporate manufacturing engineer. When our plants can’t get parts out the door, they call our group to fix their problems. These are usually big problems that the plants don’t have the time or expertise to fix.
I spent about 8 months, starting March of 2013 and coming home me every other weekend, in one of our plants. This plant was in dire straits. Literally everything was stuck together with duct tape and prayers and all the systems were failing. Turn over in the higher ranks was horrible (3 plant managers while I worked there.) I kept telling my higher ups that we needed more resources or at least a better plan to fix that place. No one does anything and, as I had gotten pregnant, I was grounded and stopped going down there all together. After my last trip, I made one final plea that they do something more substantial to fix the place.
Well, they didn’t do anything until finally the plant had to declare bankruptcy. Now they want to form action teams and offer bonuses for year long assignments to fix the place properly.
Dude! Is it because I’m new-ish? Why didn’t anyone listen to me before? We could have avoided bankruptcy if someone with more authority had mandated the plans we kept trying to put together. I can’t go help now either. My baby is only 7 months old and a way bigger priority than a plant that can’t plan further than tomorrow.
Best solution to that is to take him with you. Doesn’t the new company need a Tech expert? When you get there, check for the possibilities, and call him to encourage him to apply. It’s good karma to someday find a job for somebody who once hired you.
Yes, that’s typical of bad bosses – never hire anybody good enough that they may sometime threaten your job or get promoted over you.
As they say, first-rate bosses hire first-rate employees; second-rate bosses hire third-rate employees.
She may have already perceived you as a threat to her – things like not giving you any advance notice of a big meeting is typical of that. You’re well out of there. (But do stay professional; you may need to come back someday. It’s not too hard to not respond to hostility when you only have 10 workdays left there.
Oh, sure, they say there’s a possibility of getting up to 2% for merit too, but I’m not holding my breath despite a history of getting stellar reviews.
