Job thread

[Maven]

Sounds like trying to find a date.

[Merusk]

Manners don't pay bills and/ or get other work done. Welcome to the disposable side of the equation, where the rest of the working world has been for decades.  If the title isn't Manager or higher, you're a peon you're not getting a call back.

Wait until the wages start shrinking with everyone else's. Then you'll be in for a real treat.

[shiznitz]

I don't think it is the level of the job that matters.  I have been passed over for senior positions and the headhunter just goes absolutely silent.  If HR/recruiter isn't maintaining a dialogue with you, then you are likely not in the running.

[pxib]

Woo. Starting in August I will be middle management.

[Merusk]

Congrats!

Come for the increased responsibility, stay for the inability to enact change!

[Hawkbit]

I got a 20% increase today, which is awesome. 

[Yegolev]

That is pretty awesome.

[Fabricated]

I just realized that one of the team leads I work with sounds exactly like Claptrap from Borderlands. I can't not think of it now when I see him.

[Shannow]

tell him his next performance bonus depends on his ability to produce a claptrap costume to wear to work..

[Maven]

I wouldn't be surprised if that was his forum avatar somewhere.

[Fabricated]

Sweet cool my job is awesome; my officemate's cancer came back (very early stage 2, managable but initial pill-chemo and surgery missed a tiny bit) so he's doing the really awful fullblown chemo now meaning he's gonna be out for like 3 months even if he says he's going to try and be in (he won't, chemo is really bad and I wouldn't fault him for staying home).

We take care of many schools in the university and I'm on a team taking care of a school we took over a couple years ago. We're JUST now finishing moving them off their old shitty domain. Semester is starting in 3 weeks. The original team who had been there for years has been slowly rotated out to save their sanity (they were working 80+ hour weeks before we took over because the college fucked them over and understaffed them horribly), and the last guy who has been in charge of getting all the labs set up this summer has been forcefully rotated out since he was seen as dragging his feet.

So both of these guys' shit has been dumped on me. I haven't been involved in any of the lab shit, welp it's mine. I hadn't been involved in my officemate's stuff, but welp it's mine now too.

[brellium]

Actually, the worst is when this happens with internal positions.  True story.

I got a worse internal one, "I'm out of the office for two weeks, if you have any questions please forward them to me then."

[Brofellos]

Going thru the wonderful cycle of life known as law firm recruiting. Can't quite figure out whether I'm rushing a fraternity or trying to get a job

[Paelos]

Going thru the wonderful cycle of life known as law firm recruiting. Can't quite figure out whether I'm rushing a fraternity or trying to get a job

Both. Then they paddle the shit out of you for 2 years.

[Strazos]

So I've been in Mexico since about mid-July, and it's not bad so far. We have brand new facilities, my staff is nice and competant, and in Monterrey the water is drinkable!

On the downside, I've spent less than two weeks in the office in that time - I got here right as we moved to our new facilities, I had to go to a largely-useless conference in Veracruz, and then I ended up in the hospital for two days to undergo minor surgury to remove a kidney stone.

SUPER FUN.

On the bright side, it was the nicest hospital I've ever been in. And now I'm going back to DC on Monday for another conference. Not only should this one actually be useful, but it also allows me to take a different one of my lady friends out to dinner each night (better than room service).

It has been a weird month or so.

[Yegolev]

it also allows me to take a different one of my lady friends out to dinner each night (better than room service).

[Strazos]

That's pretty much it - I get to have dinner with a different pretty girl each night. And even if they weren't, it still beats the awkward feeling of going out to dinner alone.

[Phildo]

How come you never take ME out to dinner anymore, huh?

[Ingmar]

My boss and the network manager (that's 40% of the IT department) are both leaving, leaving me as the only person with any real historical knowledge of anything on the infrastructure side of IT. I think it might be time to ask for a raise.

[Merusk]

You must work someplace that knows the value of legacy knowledge. All of our department is at 1 year or less with the exception of the new lead, a Director, who fell-into the lead job after the VP moved back to Colorado.  He makes less than $80k a year and was amazed when I showed him the salaries some other local folks make. 

[Lantyssa]

Wow, you have five IT people!?  What's it like to have support?

[Merusk]

And how many folks are you supporting with those 5?

[Yegolev]

The commoditization of IT is now.

[Merusk]

By "now" you mean 4-5 years ago, right?

[Yegolev]

It's ongoing.  Not getting any less so.  In fact, The Cloud is kicking IT in the ass over that cliff.

[Ingmar]

Yeah a lot of what I do now is managing all those cloud services.

[Merusk]

This is why I'm application support and development. Things I support I need to be on site for, because nobody's waiting 2 hours for a call in to Autodesk that tells them "turn it off turn it back on" or "I have no idea what your problem is because it's environment specific. You'll need to discuss with your on site manager."

[Yegolev]

I think we can replace you with an automation suite.

[Nebu]

That's pretty much it - I get to have dinner with a different pretty girl each night. And even if they weren't, it still beats the awkward feeling of going out to dinner alone.

I'm booking the next flight to whereveryouare.

[Merusk]

I think we can replace you with an automation suite.

The automation suite would kill itself after the 3rd time someone came to it with the EXACT SAME PROBLEM three weeks in a row that was fixed by a reboot. Every. Time. 

Then there's the fun ones like trying to explain to graphics designers that a 15gb .pdf file will not print instantaneously and, no, you shouldn't just kill the process because you decided it was taking too long and was my problem when it didn't spool as fast as your 5kb Word document.

[Yegolev]

Robots don't have feelings (it's true) and many user-layer issues can be "fixed" with flashy images and obfuscation.  Plus, meat workers can argue with a digital worker all they like and it won't shed a tear.  Is it a machine or some guy in Pune?  We'll never tell!

[Cheddar]

Monday is D day.  After months of waiting on HR got a call on Thursday asking if I could show up the upcoming Monday.

No.

Agreed to 2 weeks if relo processed swiftly.  It did, so off I go to a new adventure!

What a long, strange trip things have been.

[Nebu]

Be brave, Ched.  The South is a strange new land.

[Merusk]

Robots don't have feelings (it's true) and many user-layer issues can be "fixed" with flashy images and obfuscation.  Plus, meat workers can argue with a digital worker all they like and it won't shed a tear.  Is it a machine or some guy in Pune?  We'll never tell!

I'd sob but my approach was reaffirmed today when the guy taking y'alls approach was torn-apart in a user meeting while I had praises sung. 

[Selby]

The South is a strange new land.

I moved a few hours away from where Ched's going and I'll second this.  Although it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be, it's definitely a different place.