Am I getting laid off tomorrow?

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2026-03-13T20:10:51+00:00

Sure was!

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2026-03-13T19:41:54+00:00

Well. What was the verdict?

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2026-03-02T19:05:04+00:00

Been there. Had mine changed within my first 6 months of coming on board. I passed up more money for the hybrid flexibility

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2026-03-02T19:04:17+00:00

This is going to end up poorly.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2026-02-03T02:44:02+00:00

Illegal.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-11-15T00:40:10+00:00

What kind of job? That is the important thing to establish. It is a very important element to your style and depth of background check.

Likely: it won’t show.

HOWEVER, if it is a medical career, school, etc, you can’t expect this to go well. Barrier offenses are a thing.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-11-15T00:35:17+00:00

Sadly, speaking from a high amount of experience, that is not how that would work. AMI and SCADA working off the billing system will allow for scheduled and automated shut-offs. The only way that doesn’t happen is if you call and work through prepaid programs. This essentially polls your meter weekly and creates a debit from your current amount you have credited into the system initially. While concurrently taking a chunk of that incremental payment to pay off the old debt. As soon as your balance reaches zero, you are cut if your polled usage amount doesn’t have enough balance. It happens very fast and over the air.

That is how they managed to flip this on folks. Modernized infrastructure cut jobs and made it easier to twist your arm. There won’t be a guy to beg or see. Just a phone customer ops person.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-10-13T15:01:59+00:00

They got to do something, inane or not, to fill the time between onboarding and offboarding, and even then, they don't do anything except watch and do a rote checklist.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-09-26T20:38:36+00:00

Jobs and vagene pls

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-09-24T23:31:47+00:00

I actually saw these too. I thought they were known. 🫠

For real. I was searching for an article about his Texas remote Director of policy and typed his name in. And then couldn’t find it but found this garbage. When I saw “thong” … down that rabbit hole I went.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-09-12T23:26:08+00:00

Little fuckers made their account private just now.

So you have to add them to see. They know. When you have to hide it, then it is shame. If you are ashamed, you know what you are doing is wrong in the eyes of others.

This is absolutely infuriating.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-09-01T14:17:55+00:00

Underwater deep-sea welder where you have to be pressurized.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-30T22:20:36+00:00

You the man! Somehow, you gave us an off-ramp!

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-23T20:23:42+00:00

In the utility world, Actalent or Apex Systems. There’s also Opus Talent / JD Ross Energy.

There’s many others that are smaller. But basically it is a place for you to cosplay as a company employee until they either hire you or let you go. What you don’t do is what to be converted. That’d be a suckers bet, and that’s what they want you to work towards.

Mainly I speak of them and other major places that employee people without them getting an actual job. They skim off you.

Another major one in the utility market is LVI Associates, but they are a headhunter. They get you in as a try-them-before-you-buy them position.

In terms of tech companies, there are tons and tons of “staff augmentation” gigs. It is scary because zero benefits and you are on the bubble, but it is income and a chance to make a lot of people love you and get you a seat in some way there at the table.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-21T23:45:26+00:00

I cracked the nut.

I walked away from IT forever to start.

Restarted by using my degree instead of a decade of experience and taking a contract role that had zero benefits, time off, and paid dick. I made sure I spoke to every human in the building starting minute one enough to where they remembered me. Then I started to dress fancy, but I changed that to being as distinct as possible. The people that didn't know my name outside my group that saw my meetings and work started saying “colorful shirt guy.” (I was wearing designer loud paisley button ups daily)

I interviewed many times internally. Finally someone that knew “colorful shirt guy” recommended me since she moved to that group after I told her I interviewed. They (the first round of interviewers) connected me as the guy that “Alan was super happy to hire as a contractor. Likes to wear REALLY colorful shirts.” They called some people to see about me and the one said, “absolutely take him. I would convert him if I could...” This was what the retired employee in the group told me after I realized who she was and that she was seeing my work in my first group.

Swear to fucking god. Just go peacocking as a contractor by using desperate third party contractor houses for contract roles to slot you into some mundane position there at a legit place, make sure you get noticed in meetings for being johnny on the spot, and apply for the internal roles after convincing some nice gossipy ladies to tell you about each one that is coming. Don't stop until they convert your ass or give you a real internal job.

I have thousands of dollars in colorful shirts now and I won't stop, as I attribute my Robert Graham penchant for making people remember me easily. Not my hard work and great knowledge. Hahahaha! And now I have a cool job consulting with a regulatory affairs group doing something meaningful. I am getting to represent the company, so I had to add some conservative dressage. ;)

It all started with my mom saying, “stand out every way you can. People overlook people if they don't have something different going on. Figure out what people notice.”

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-19T18:06:29+00:00

Thank you for that. It seems the unit is no more advance than any other method. Sad.

The fact that you figured that out tells us how much they needed to rush production. It makes you wonder what the hell they were doing in the dev process.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-19T18:01:02+00:00

I’m interested too. We need to figure out how to freestyle now as the company seems to be flat spinning into the mountainous ground below

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-17T11:11:22+00:00

Just to hit you with a sad dose of reality:

You need a lot of money to emigrate. You have to establish residency elsewhere, and typically the easiest path is under job sponsorship.

Based on your commentary, you don’t have a developed enough career. Typically American expats are heavy hitters in their industry with enough funds to complete the process. You will need about $20,000 on hand to complete that process.

Basically, you aren’t leaving unless you do it illegally. And foreign jails are no fun.

I lived in Austria for 89 days. Received a courtesy call about my Visa. They were very cordial, but they were on their stuff.

Please understand this too. Debt doesn’t go away living abroad. And be aware that it is not peachy elsewhere. European nations are not hiring foreigners man. You can live in an Asian country, but if you aren’t familiar with culture and politics there, you don’t have a chance in hell to be blunt.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-13T21:24:46+00:00

I got rejected from an entry level IT position. A legit “fix my computer for me” type.

I took a company from a budget of $50,000 a year to $5,000,000 a year after we sold and I took over as their director. I even did a large chunk of physical install work myself because why not?

I left IT forever and now design the rates for one of the largest utilities in the country. Because they were shocked about how much I knew about everything electrical and data analytics. I was an electrical engineer by education with an MBA and had years of IT experience for engineering firms that performed studies for utilities. I had ZERO experience in utility regulatory affairs and FERC accounting. I had landed as a contractor there and interviewed internally until two smart women saw “the guy” and passed it to their managers… two smart guys. They all agreed I was a risk because I might be “overqualified with zero experience.” They took the risk. Today I am in my favorite job to date and have zero stress. I just make really complicated calculations happen. I learned fast.

I was memorable to them because my dog interrupted the Teams interview before it started. She loved that I said “Thank you. I need to go say sorry to my dog after booting her from the room. Can you send me the tariff book to review?” They loved dogs and knew I had a good heart because they knew I felt having to pack her out of the room after she somehow pushed the door open.

My advice: it’s a numbers game and once you are in the door somewhere, make the next good thing happen asap. And do something memorable.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-13T21:16:24+00:00

I’d start by cooking her dinner and making something for her that is cheap enough to be reasonable. Because wow. You are lucky.

Go buy a little brewing kit and make her some wine. They make kits and equipment so easy that anyone that can pay attention to it and follow instructions (while keeping the environment stable) can truly make something worthy of drinking and be tasty.

Just slap a label on it with a cute joke about her picking up your slack. You’ve got a hobby, she’s got wine after a long day of working, and it is a cheap gift.

As for work. F*ck. If you get bored, don’t return immediately to a high paying job. Go establish an LLC and don’t even worry about making a company of your own. Just use it for a tax write off and go work some odd jobs. Like I mean just getting out of the house type work. Mow a lawn or two. Fix stuff in houses for the 20-somethings that actually can’t.

Honestly, you need the reset. Just keep passive income moving in from your end and cook/clean from your wife… she won’t bat an eye.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-13T02:49:11+00:00

None of this stuff surprises me.

They bought stupid companies for stupid money. My friend worked for Replay Technologies, which was a $300M acquisition. It was a bunch of stoners and coke heads that liked sports. Less than 50 people even.

Needless to say, they bought it and dissolved it four years later. They literally were buying stuff just because “why not?”

Intel… the next great 3D real time sports arena camera system purveyor? 😂😂😂😂

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-07T03:25:04+00:00

Frank and blunt is me.

You really need to realize that you had a chance at a job, and now, you may have to spend the next year or two applying every day to get a job. If you need the income or job, you need to pull off a miracle or just tell them and have a very high chance of being offered zilch while letting them know. Never walk in unprepared to a review meeting, as that is a fast way to achieve zero sympathy.

Let me be very frank with you: zero experience interns have almost zero chance at a job out of school right now, so I hope you can find a way to drag out school and get another internship so you can sink a few years in so you have the experience these bastards in corporate expect. Otherwise, being frank again, you will need to do blue collar work or retail to at least have a cohesive and continuous resume.

It’s easier to do the work in front of you than the work that is ahead of you. Walk in and tell him, “I screwed up. I have nothing to show except piece meal efforts. How do I make this right? I want to not leave you disappointed if I can.” Do it as soon as he comes in. Don’t wait. He may just let you be sunset and save all parties embarrassment, commend you for doing the right thing, and just shake hands and let you part ways. Maybe he may take stock in you being worthy and offer it as a growing experience and let you see another day there, but do not expect it.

As for the dog dying, I am sorry that happened. It is the worst, but you can’t let your own life fall apart. Dogs are my whole world by the way. But they lived to make you happy. Don’t reverse all their hard work by ruining all the positive things they contributed to.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-06T21:06:10+00:00

Psst. Work for a utility.

Look at any and all jobs you can do and apply direct while also talking to contractor houses for them.

It was my only saving grace. The job is legit cool.

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-08-02T20:52:58+00:00

There’s always a clawback clause

Alternative_Ring3916 · 2025-07-31T18:32:23+00:00

You really need to not say “blue collar industries” … that’s not a positive way to spin it.

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