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Post by andi9899 on Sept 8, 2021 12:49:43 GMT -5
andi9899 - what did you decide? I'm back on the job hunt. I'm tired of my new boss, who I think doesn't do anything except "strategize," i.e. make lists of everything I need to do. She wants all documents moved into one folder. You want them there? Do it yourself. I don't have time for that when I'm the only one in this department that creates content, and I don't get paid enough when there used to be 4 people here and somehow I do all of their jobs now. And the micro-managing - copying her on all emails I send out for people to review content, etc. Why?!?! Sorry, I just get tired of it all sometimes. I just can't bring myself to go to an office every day unnecessarily with COVID increasing everywhere. I'm telling them that I'll wait for the next opportunity which she said was fine. If that means they pass on me, it is what it is. Job 2 is ready to make an offer. It will have to be at least $10K over my current salary for me to do it. I have a call today about a 3rd job. We'll see what they say.
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Post by jerseygirl on Sept 8, 2021 15:39:07 GMT -5
So I’ve been not responding to inquiries if I’m available for consulting- they’re all remote But today a really interesting opportunity came in I thought I was ready to stop consulting but haven’t done anything since March. I’m on vacation now snd first time in 15 years no telecons, projects due over the vacation
Realized when I get home, winter is coming and I won’t be going anywhere and pretty sure I’ll be booored! So I responded - but only if it’s a 1099 position
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Post by NastyWoman on Sept 8, 2021 22:04:14 GMT -5
Oh, my. I'm so glad I don't actually work for a living anymore. Just going in and cranking out biscuits, cleaning up after myself, then going home is such a blessing compared to being out in the working world and having to use my brain Being the Biscuit Bitch is almost as good as being a cleaning fairy, except that as a cleaning fairy there weren't other people around bickering with each other, everybody wanting to be a tail wagging a dog...that kind of stuff. Mostly I just close my ears to it when possible and concentrate on world peace, ending the climate change crisis and eliminating hunger Well, that can't all be on you but, as the resident Biscuit Bitch, you are doing your share w.r.t. hunger
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 9, 2021 10:17:33 GMT -5
Job offer came in from job 2. It's $10K over my current salary. Waiting to hear from job 3. I told job 3 that my bare minimum salary requirement is $10K over current which they didn't even bat an eye yet. Looks like it's coming down to benefits and bonus opportunity.
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 10, 2021 10:45:09 GMT -5
Interview with job #3 scheduled for today at 4:00. If this works out I'll meet with the team I'd be working with on Monday. If that goes well, I'll have an offer. I feel like job 3 will be a better fit for me. It's a corporate job vs an individual agency with corporate investors. The benefits are similar. There is a ton of room for growth at job 3.
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Post by jerseygirl on Sept 10, 2021 11:02:37 GMT -5
andie so great that you have so many choices Choose well!!
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Sept 10, 2021 11:03:04 GMT -5
I had a worker on my team tell me that one day. I wanted to train him to move up the team ladder. He told me 'I don't want to think. I just want to do my job and go home. I don't make enough to worry that much about this place.' It was an eye opening moment for me in management. Amazing worker but just wanted to do a great job without stress or additional effort. I could respect that. OMG. This is so me. This is why I miss working the production floor so much. I would come in, have a distinct job that I could work at to the best of my abilities and then pass it off to the next shift if it was not possible to finish in mine and come in the next day to it being done and the next task on deck.
Now I'm getting pulled 50 directions, nothing I do seems to really matter much and I'm so freaking unappreciated and don't make any more than the production people do anyhow! 160 openings in my company and I apparently don't even qualify for an interview to go from Tech I to Tech II after 15 years as a Tech I. I used to be told I couldn't get Tech II because there wasn't an opening, now there is and I applied...back in June. It's still on the list of openings.
I'm so fed up and ready to just work at McDonalds.
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 10, 2021 15:02:31 GMT -5
I had a worker on my team tell me that one day. I wanted to train him to move up the team ladder. He told me 'I don't want to think. I just want to do my job and go home. I don't make enough to worry that much about this place.' It was an eye opening moment for me in management. Amazing worker but just wanted to do a great job without stress or additional effort. I could respect that. OMG. This is so me. This is why I miss working the production floor so much. I would come in, have a distinct job that I could work at to the best of my abilities and then pass it off to the next shift if it was not possible to finish in mine and come in the next day to it being done and the next task on deck.
Now I'm getting pulled 50 directions, nothing I do seems to really matter much and I'm so freaking unappreciated and don't make any more than the production people do anyhow! 160 openings in my company and I apparently don't even qualify for an interview to go from Tech I to Tech II after 15 years as a Tech I. I used to be told I couldn't get Tech II because there wasn't an opening, now there is and I applied...back in June. It's still on the list of openings.
I'm so fed up and ready to just work at McDonalds.
I'm the opposite. I'm pulled in 50 different directions all day and I love my job. I complain about the customers being rude and my underwriter being incompetent, but that's really less than 10% of my day. The rest I really do like. Some people like organized chaos and others just want to keep their heads down and do their work. There's no right or wrong. Just personal preference.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 10, 2021 15:18:44 GMT -5
I had a worker on my team tell me that one day. I wanted to train him to move up the team ladder. He told me 'I don't want to think. I just want to do my job and go home. I don't make enough to worry that much about this place.' It was an eye opening moment for me in management. Amazing worker but just wanted to do a great job without stress or additional effort. I could respect that. OMG. This is so me. This is why I miss working the production floor so much. I would come in, have a distinct job that I could work at to the best of my abilities and then pass it off to the next shift if it was not possible to finish in mine and come in the next day to it being done and the next task on deck.
Now I'm getting pulled 50 directions, nothing I do seems to really matter much and I'm so freaking unappreciated and don't make any more than the production people do anyhow! 160 openings in my company and I apparently don't even qualify for an interview to go from Tech I to Tech II after 15 years as a Tech I. I used to be told I couldn't get Tech II because there wasn't an opening, now there is and I applied...back in June. It's still on the list of openings.
I'm so fed up and ready to just work at McDonalds.
I am burnt out too. We got treated like garbage and they pretty much made it clear that they don't care if I die on the job. Our salaries were frozen because they claimed they couldn't make predictions so they cut back. Managers all got their regular yearly bonus. On top of that we got to hear about record profits for 2020/21. Uh. .. then why were you refusing to give us a raise this year until people threatened to quit? I am tired of busting my ass while hearing from my new supervisor about how stupid those of us who have bachelor's degrees are compared to PhDs. I am tired of my reward being more work and cold hamburgers. I am tired of being treated like a six year old instead of an adult (that has gotten somewhat better with new supervisor). I also never realized how backwards ass Omaha really is until I left the university. I'm really sick of the Trumpster/Republican/conservative culture here. I am tired of being expected to work at half staff in our department (because one is our supervisor who is never going to be on the bench, he's also made it clear the PhD will never be a dual tech she's too important). I am tired of ever increasing demands on me from departments that aren't even my responsibility. No I have no freaking clue why the software you use doesn't show what my software shows. I am not the F-ing IT department. No I don't know how to "fix it". No I am not going to alter documents because you consider it too much work to look up shit in a different way to get the exact same results. Kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your own ass. Happy Hanukkah. Not quite sure I want to go the McD's route but there are days I think that $15 at Target is what I was making seven short years ago at UNMC so .. .
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2021 15:49:33 GMT -5
NomoreDramaQ1015 $15/hour at Target and tuition reimbursement. Tuition. Reimbursement. Think about that.
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 10, 2021 17:12:02 GMT -5
I just finished the interview for job 3. I love it! I really hope I get it. I'll take job 2, but I really want job 3.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2021 18:20:48 GMT -5
I had a worker on my team tell me that one day. I wanted to train him to move up the team ladder. He told me 'I don't want to think. I just want to do my job and go home. I don't make enough to worry that much about this place.' It was an eye opening moment for me in management. Amazing worker but just wanted to do a great job without stress or additional effort. I could respect that. I won’t go so far as to say I’m an amazing worker, but I understand where that person was coming from. When I first started my current job, my immediate supervisor kept advising me to go into management so I wouldn’t spend decades doing the kind of work I do. I really appreciated that from him, but it didn’t take long for me to know that I didn’t want to deal with what our supervisors and managers had to deal with. Not the employees, but the other members of management. I’ve been asked several times since then about going into management, and my answer was always the same. No thanks. I don’t mind thinking, the culture is just not for me. I deal with the culture as a peon by just showing up, doing my job, and going home on time every day. I don’t think about my job again until it’s time for me to get ready to go back the next day. Whatever goes wrong doing my work day is not my problem, and something goes wrong at least 3 out of 5 days. I do everything within my power to get the job done, but if we don’t perform to expectations, my boss gets ugly emails, talked to crazy, threatened or whatever. I don’t. My job has made it very clear to me that I get paid to do, not to think, so I let the people that get paid for that, do their jobs, even if that means I sit around twiddling my thumbs while they figure things out and earn their salary. I’m not a complete asshole though, so if I have a boss that treats me like an adult and doesn’t try to micromanage me, I do try to make them shine and do more than is strictly required of me. I’ll alert them to problems I can’t resolve myself and pretty much do whatever I can to keep our operation running smoothly, without bothering my boss. But an asshole boss or one that wants to micromanage me, I let them earn their pay and only do what I’m required to do, which does not include thinking. I let them figure out for themselves when there IS a problem, instead of telling them, and I most definitely let them figure out on their own how to solve it. If they want to micromanage me, I still do what I’m told, but once I’m done with that, I wait for them to tell me what to do next instead of taking the initiative to just do whatever needs to be done. And the way my job is set up, I can do that without repercussions beyond making them angry. Idc about an asshole boss being angry with me because I won’t do their job for them. Over the last several years, I’ve had bosses that understand I’ll do whatever needs to be done if they leave me alone. They don’t have to come see what’s going on, I’ll run the whole operation by myself if I have to, and I’ll let them know if there are problems, so they have a truthful response ready for THEIR bosses if something goes haywire. I might not even see my boss until the middle of my work day, and that’s just because they are passing through on their way to somewhere else. I like it like that, so I don’t betray the trust they have in me to get the job done without them having to constantly check to make sure I’m doing it. If I was willing to work OT, I could make more money than even upper managers do. So there’s very little incentive to do what they do and deal with the headaches they deal with. I’ve seen and heard with my own eyes and ears, a plant manager cussing out a middle manager on the workroom floor, and the middle manager was just “yes sir, yes sir”. I lost respect for both of them that day, no way should I have witnessed that. And no way could ANYBODY talk to me like that and I just take it. Idc if it’s the top brass of the entire organization. The way my mouth and attitude are set up, Imma either ignore you and wander off to somewhere else like you aren’t even talking to me, or talk to you the same way you talk to me, I DO NOT CARE who you are or what your title is. That’s the kind of BS I refuse to deal with, but that’s what our managers deal with from each other and their bosses, and that’s why I’d rather just be a peon.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 10, 2021 19:26:02 GMT -5
I was another one who took my name out of the running for management when my manager recommended I apply. One of the major reasons they wanted me to apply was that I loved doing on the job training and I gave it my all. I stayed late to do evaluations of their work. I their cases home to review them because I spent all of my time with them in the field on the job.
All of my trainees gave me high marks because they had experienced On the Job Coaches who did next to nothing to teach them how to do the job.
I had to tell people they were not cut out for the job. They all took my advice and quit. The worst thing I had to do was when a real manager couldn't tell a woman that she stunk and asked me to talk to her. I did it. It was hard, very hard. He got me about a $100 performance award for doing it but he should have done it.
I liked dealing with 3 or 4 people. I did not want to deal with 12 to 15 people and their problems. I got too many tastes of that when I was acting manager (which I wasn't when the other manager asked me to talk to his employee). To this day, I wish I would have told him no.
My advice worked for about 6 weeks. She lived on a farm and was showering and then doing her farm chores, so she had body odor. I asked her if she could do the chores and then shower. It was a simple solution but it didn't last.
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Sept 10, 2021 22:42:05 GMT -5
Another one who isn’t interested in management and the garbage they deal with. I got asked to be acting supervisor at my last job location when they fired our supervisor. I was quick to say no way in hell. I saw how our supervisor was treated like trash, bullied, given no resources or backup and then fired when he wasn't a miracle man who could pull magic out of his backside. No way am I stepping in that.
I’ll work my butt off, fix problems, and help my coworkers but don’t try to get me in a position where u expect he impossible and I’m going to get fired because I can’t get it done, especially when I’ve brought up ye concerns and lack of resources and been blown off.
I had some serious safety concerns that are going to get someone hurt or killed. I filed a complaint with our office that handles safety and quality a few months ago. I got notified today that they closed my complaint and said it was “unsubstantiated”. They never even contacted me about getting more details or asking for information (I submitted a small description online for the complaint itself but wasn’t asked for any other information at any point). I’m so over it. If the people whose job it is to investigate this stuff don’t even care enough to pick up a phone or send me an email asking for more detail, you know they don’t care and it is everyone for themselves. I just have to hope no one gets hurt and save all my documentation so if some one does get hurt, I can show I did my due diligence and said something. It’s a horrible position to be put in as an employee though.
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 11, 2021 7:48:19 GMT -5
So I have to let job 2 know what I'm going to do by Monday. How shitty would it be to accept and then bail if job 3 comes through during my two week notice? I really like job 3 but will do job 2 for the money.
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Post by finnime on Sept 11, 2021 8:13:55 GMT -5
So I have to let job 2 know what I'm going to do by Monday. How shitty would it be to accept and then bail if job 3 comes through during my two week notice? I really like job 3 but will do job 2 for the money. If job 3 comes through and you bail, job 2 will not be happy but they'll understand. It's business, not personal. I did this once upon a time on my father's advice. He was right.
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 11, 2021 8:27:55 GMT -5
So I have to let job 2 know what I'm going to do by Monday. How shitty would it be to accept and then bail if job 3 comes through during my two week notice? I really like job 3 but will do job 2 for the money. If job 3 comes through and you bail, job 2 will not be happy but they'll understand. It's business, not personal. I did this once upon a time on my father's advice. He was right. Thanks! Honestly job 2 is a bridge I'm ok with burning.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Sept 11, 2021 17:19:21 GMT -5
So I have to let job 2 know what I'm going to do by Monday. How shitty would it be to accept and then bail if job 3 comes through during my two week notice? I really like job 3 but will do job 2 for the money. Only shitty-ish. It happens.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 11, 2021 17:38:43 GMT -5
So I have to let job 2 know what I'm going to do by Monday. How shitty would it be to accept and then bail if job 3 comes through during my two week notice? I really like job 3 but will do job 2 for the money. They'd have no problem getting rid of you in five seconds if it helped the bottom line. Why shouldn't you look out for yourself? I'm all for not burning bridges but as time goes on I'm starting to feel that was a rumor drummed up by employers to allow them to treat us like expendable dirt and get is to thank them for it because they hired us. It's been interesting to watch employees wake up to that in the past year.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Sept 12, 2021 14:00:08 GMT -5
I had a worker on my team tell me that one day. I wanted to train him to move up the team ladder. He told me 'I don't want to think. I just want to do my job and go home. I don't make enough to worry that much about this place.' It was an eye opening moment for me in management. Amazing worker but just wanted to do a great job without stress or additional effort. I could respect that. OMG. This is so me. This is why I miss working the production floor so much. I would come in, have a distinct job that I could work at to the best of my abilities and then pass it off to the next shift if it was not possible to finish in mine and come in the next day to it being done and the next task on deck.
Now I'm getting pulled 50 directions, nothing I do seems to really matter much and I'm so freaking unappreciated and don't make any more than the production people do anyhow! 160 openings in my company and I apparently don't even qualify for an interview to go from Tech I to Tech II after 15 years as a Tech I. I used to be told I couldn't get Tech II because there wasn't an opening, now there is and I applied...back in June. It's still on the list of openings.
I'm so fed up and ready to just work at McDonalds.
Can you follow up? I had an internal candidate that I didn’t get the resume for. I emailed hr and asked if there was a reason t’s resume wasn’t forwarded with the others for consideration. Nope no reason. T has been in the job for about two years now If I hadn’t known, she never would have been interviewed.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Sept 12, 2021 15:15:28 GMT -5
OMG. This is so me. This is why I miss working the production floor so much. I would come in, have a distinct job that I could work at to the best of my abilities and then pass it off to the next shift if it was not possible to finish in mine and come in the next day to it being done and the next task on deck.
Now I'm getting pulled 50 directions, nothing I do seems to really matter much and I'm so freaking unappreciated and don't make any more than the production people do anyhow! 160 openings in my company and I apparently don't even qualify for an interview to go from Tech I to Tech II after 15 years as a Tech I. I used to be told I couldn't get Tech II because there wasn't an opening, now there is and I applied...back in June. It's still on the list of openings.
I'm so fed up and ready to just work at McDonalds.
Can you follow up? I had an internal candidate that I didn’t get the resume for. I emailed hr and asked if there was a reason t’s resume wasn’t forwarded with the others for consideration. Nope no reason. T has been in the job for about two years now [img src="https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/smile.gif" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" class="smile" alt=" "] If I hadn’t known, she never would have been interviewed. The hiring manager for this position is my boss, so he knows how to get a hold of me. Every year at my review he is getting more and more annoyed that i'm not meeting my goal to train as a back up in quoting so I'm guessing that might be playing into it. There's a couple reasons I haven't been doing so, one, I'm just too busy trying to keep my head above water on all my day to day stuff (there used to be 3 of us and have only been 2 for the past 5 years) and also my counterpart that does do the quoting doesn't really want to train me. I think she likes that she is golden to them because they would be screwed without her since nobody else knows how to do it. But really...it comes down to what stillmovingforward was talking about with her team member. I don't WANT more put on my plate...especially for the same pay. And seriously, I'm a Product Quality Tech. I deal with QUALITY issues. I do inspections, data analysis, review paperwork, create first article reports, etc. A lot of which is really Quality Engineer level stuff (they have me sign as the Quality Engineer on lots of documents but pay me tech pay). But now they want to add LABOR QUOTING to my duties? WTH? It's not like this is a small company where people wear lots of hats, we do 2 billion dollars a year in business and our division is the largest one, how is a quality tech with 13 customers assigned to her also supposed to do the labor quoting on bids? It makes no sense to me! Yes, my counterpart, the other PQT is doing the quoting, but that's pretty much all she does. Almost all the other duties have fallen on me. She has like 3 customers to my 13 and none of them are very demanding.
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 12, 2021 16:27:21 GMT -5
I have 30+ accounts assigned to me. I also do most of the reports and training. If I bind 5 new business accounts a month, which would be a slow month for me, I also own those accounts until at least the next renewal. Some of them I keep indefinitely. Some are assigned to other people to lighten my load. That's just on one of the 3 programs I work on.
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 14, 2021 14:16:46 GMT -5
I accepted job 2 and have an interview for a different department for job 3 tomorrow. Once by background check comes back I'll give notice.
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Post by finnime on Sept 14, 2021 14:26:19 GMT -5
I accepted job 2 and have an interview for a different department for job 3 tomorrow. Once by background check comes back I'll give notice. Go, Andi!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 22, 2021 8:07:16 GMT -5
Anyone else just had it with their job? I regularly remind myself of what my trade offs are and I also tell myself that 2020/21 in general may have a huge part in how I'm feeling anymore but damn it's getting harder not to apply at Target. Lost five more people in the last two weeks. They can't figure out why. So anyhoo may have dropped myself down from the "stellar" 3 score on my review to a 2 and will likely have another comment about "doesn't like to do work" on my review. Said work above involves a lot of time and expense so I finally asked how many tests are we going to do trying to prove a duck is a goose? I explained since new supervisor has never acknowledged our departments existence before he got a hefty pay raise to do it, that we already tried this with another client and it was discovered how deep in the hole we actually were. So the experiment was cut off and they were told we're only doing what we can do now if you want more you'll have to look elsewhere. There was a whole big spiel he gave about how our department is supposed to be X but we keep doing more Y and Z and how that is a waste of company time/money/resources. Well this is exactly what you were talking about. Apparently I am just a stupid tech and not supposed to question the all mighty. My answer was supposed to be yes sir I will find something right away! What I WANTED to say was I getting tired of my intelligence being insulted but then I am thrown work that should really be going to the department whose NAME involves said work and are paid 2-3x more than what I make. I am tired of my department being treated like the red headed step child of the company. I'm tired of being told to be grateful for a 2% raise while the company constantly reminds us about record profits. I am tired of getting more and more piled onto my shoulders while other departments we work with can refuse to do even the most basic of tasks like data entry because they know supervisor will make us do it instead. We all know how I feel about their COVID policies. I kept that to myself.
For all the big talk about change and trying to attract new employees and shit companies sure aren't bothering to do anything for those of us who have been here all this time. Maybe you should start focusing on us a bit before you lose even more. If you can't get anyone to even attend the interview causing us to quit is likely not in your best interest. You're not going to be able to just find another body right now.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 22, 2021 8:09:57 GMT -5
Anyone else just had it with their job? I regularly remind myself of what my trade offs are and I also tell myself that 2020/21 in general may have a huge part in how I'm feeling anymore but damn it's getting harder not to apply at Target. Lost five more people in the last two weeks. They can't figure out why. So anyhoo may have dropped myself down from the "stellar" 3 score on my review to a 2 and will likely have another comment about "doesn't like to do work" on my review. Said work above involves a lot of time and expense so I finally asked how many tests are we going to do trying to prove a duck is a goose? I explained since new supervisor has never acknowledged our departments existence before he got a hefty pay raise to do it, that we already tried this with another client and it was discovered how deep in the hole we actually were. So the experiment was cut off and they were told we're only doing what we can do now if you want more you'll have to look elsewhere. There was a whole big spiel he gave about how our department is supposed to be X but we keep doing more Y and Z and how that is a waste of company time/money/resources. Well this is exactly what you were talking about. Apparently I am just a stupid tech and not supposed to question the all mighty. My answer was supposed to be yes sir I will find something right away! What I WANTED to say was I getting tired of my intelligence being insulted but then I am thrown work that should really be going to the department whose NAME involves said work and are paid 2-3x more than what I make. I am tired of my department being treated like the red headed step child of the company. I'm tired of being told to be grateful for a 2% raise while the company constantly reminds us about record profits. I am tired of getting more and more piled onto my shoulders while other departments we work with can refuse to do even the most basic of tasks like data entry because they know supervisor will make us do it instead. We all know how I feel about their COVID policies. I kept that to myself.
For all the big talk about change and trying to attract new employees and shit companies sure aren't bothering to do anything for those of us who have been here all this time. Maybe you should start focusing on us a bit before you lose even more. If you can't get anyone to even attend the interview causing us to quit is likely not in your best interest. You're not going to be able to just find another body right now.
Have you been looking and keeping your resume/LinkedIn profile up to date?
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 22, 2021 8:13:58 GMT -5
Oh yeah I guess I haven’t updated things here. I’m sure some know already, but I took a job with a major pharmaceutical company in January. The salary was a $20k+ boost from my previous job at the home goods retailer, and double the vacation time. People are actually nice and helpful here. I’ve paid my dues for a VERY long time, so I’m grateful that I can finally have some financial (and personal) wiggle room.
There is hope, folks. Find a place where you will be valued.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 22, 2021 8:15:45 GMT -5
Anyone else just had it with their job? I regularly remind myself of what my trade offs are and I also tell myself that 2020/21 in general may have a huge part in how I'm feeling anymore but damn it's getting harder not to apply at Target. Lost five more people in the last two weeks. They can't figure out why. So anyhoo may have dropped myself down from the "stellar" 3 score on my review to a 2 and will likely have another comment about "doesn't like to do work" on my review. Said work above involves a lot of time and expense so I finally asked how many tests are we going to do trying to prove a duck is a goose? I explained since new supervisor has never acknowledged our departments existence before he got a hefty pay raise to do it, that we already tried this with another client and it was discovered how deep in the hole we actually were. So the experiment was cut off and they were told we're only doing what we can do now if you want more you'll have to look elsewhere. There was a whole big spiel he gave about how our department is supposed to be X but we keep doing more Y and Z and how that is a waste of company time/money/resources. Well this is exactly what you were talking about. Apparently I am just a stupid tech and not supposed to question the all mighty. My answer was supposed to be yes sir I will find something right away! What I WANTED to say was I getting tired of my intelligence being insulted but then I am thrown work that should really be going to the department whose NAME involves said work and are paid 2-3x more than what I make. I am tired of my department being treated like the red headed step child of the company. I'm tired of being told to be grateful for a 2% raise while the company constantly reminds us about record profits. I am tired of getting more and more piled onto my shoulders while other departments we work with can refuse to do even the most basic of tasks like data entry because they know supervisor will make us do it instead. We all know how I feel about their COVID policies. I kept that to myself.
For all the big talk about change and trying to attract new employees and shit companies sure aren't bothering to do anything for those of us who have been here all this time. Maybe you should start focusing on us a bit before you lose even more. If you can't get anyone to even attend the interview causing us to quit is likely not in your best interest. You're not going to be able to just find another body right now.
Have you been looking and keeping your resume/LinkedIn profile up to date? I look but I am not "looking". There really isn't anything around here that can replace my salary and while I know people have told me to apply for jobs with my soft skills, jobs I'm only "partly qualified for" and "lean in" and blah blah it doesn't really work that way. I can't explain to people who don't live here how ass backwards the Omaha job market is. There is a reason why this city can't retain young people or attract new businesses. And not going to lie I am TIRED of job hopping. I've been doing it every 2-5 years since I started working. I don't want to do it again so soon. Which is one of my trade offs. I need my salary right now, I am stable and you really can't beat my insurance premiums for a family even though it does come with a $5k deductible. I know what I am trading my soul for and most of the time I am fine with it. The last 15 months though are taking it's toll and I am severely burnt out. I am not sure how much is me and how much is the job. Last time I did this I ended up out of the frying pan into the fire so you can understand my desire to not be making big decisions right now.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 22, 2021 8:36:40 GMT -5
Have you been looking and keeping your resume/LinkedIn profile up to date? I look but I am not "looking". There really isn't anything around here that can replace my salary and while I know people have told me to apply for jobs with my soft skills, jobs I'm only "partly qualified for" and "lean in" and blah blah it doesn't really work that way. I can't explain to people who don't live here how ass backwards the Omaha job market is. There is a reason why this city can't retain young people or attract new businesses. And not going to lie I am TIRED of job hopping. I've been doing it every 2-5 years since I started working. I don't want to do it again so soon. Which is one of my trade offs. I need my salary right now, I am stable and you really can't beat my insurance premiums for a family even though it does come with a $5k deductible. I know what I am trading my soul for and most of the time I am fine with it. The last 15 months though are taking it's toll and I am severely burnt out. I am not sure how much is me and how much is the job. Last time I did this I ended up out of the frying pan into the fire so you can understand my desire to not be making big decisions right now. I completely understand what you’re saying about not wanting to job hop. I admit that I’ve been doing that basically since my divorce was finalized, and not gonna lie, it’s kind of draining. This last hop was mostly because of the pandemic. Being furloughed was the final push I needed to get out of retail. Now that I am where I am, I have no plans whatsoever to leave. At least not voluntarily LOL. I also understand why you’re keeping your job and not looking. There is definitely something to be said for stability and reliability. One of the coping mechanisms I had to learn while working for idiot management is to play dumb and give them exactly what they ask for. Don’t ask questions just nod, smile, and do what they ask. And if what they’re asking for turns out to be problematic, you can just say to them you were doing what you were asked to do. Sometimes that’s the best way to expose issues….. 🤷🏾♀️
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 22, 2021 8:37:43 GMT -5
I also want to reiterate that you need a vacation. Or just a weekend away for only you.
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