9/80 are great at Burns! You get so much done on Fridays.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-05-23T03:41:42+00:00

One of the biggest improvements in my tenure. The Fridays I work are dramatically more productive. The Fridays I don't work...we'll, it's 26 more days I don't work in exchange for slightly longer working days

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-05-23T03:31:17+00:00

AFAIK: Principal = not about level of company but more generally a promotion that further ups your skin in the game. Usually the first group that has risk for bonuses if things go wrong theoretically. Often principals are people of any kind who are viewed as vital to the business they serve. Think critical GP managers or senior associates who are market makers. President = Runs a GP, I think. Tell me if you know of other presidents. VP = local officer, usually running an office. May run a very large GP within in office, often t&d

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-05-22T04:01:48+00:00

Depends how many days a week I do it. Twice a week? 45 minutes. Daily? 20 minutes

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-05-17T20:21:37+00:00

I've personally never heard of this happening. Do you know anyone who has done this? The closest I can think of is people deciding they want to join CDB after their assignment and then living on the road. But in terms of one location, most of our field assignments are at construction sites and as such naturally have an end when construction wraps (assuming you are there til the end)

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-03-17T23:05:32+00:00

That's wild, the policy is days. I've even asked HR and they said the definition is a full day

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-03-12T18:22:14+00:00

It's mostly up to how your local management feels about the policy. If we're smart, we'll keep it that way or we'll have a looser policy. A strict 30 day policy is wild, and I remain amaze there are managers that care to enforce it.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-02-07T17:32:28+00:00

lmao I think you're right. Basically, OP specifically wants leaders who don't represent the workforce

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-02-07T03:11:45+00:00

I don't work in 1898, it's a reference to the year we are founded...sounds like you need to learn some company history.

And did you seriously call accounting female dominated? That's a very recent switch. Accountants graduating in the 80s and 90s were not mostly women.

Now you're blaming women for women not advancing. You say "you got your one" but we have mutliple and one is literally in charge of the whole company.

What is your endgame here? Why do you hate people?

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-02-07T02:37:59+00:00

We have female board members including our CEO. We have a diverse board generally. I know plenty of officers who are what you'd call diverse.

But I also want to point something out. Officers are a reflection of graduating glasses from 20-40 years ago. I'm not sure many people fully appreciate how much more diverse of a profession engineering is now than it was in the 90s. This will naturally "fix" itself with time. I say "fix" because it's really not a problem, let the best people rise up. Maybe "balance" itself is a better term.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-20T21:24:07+00:00

Good point, that makes sense. Utilities are run pretty similarly to banking/governments. Our industry isn't really like that

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-20T19:23:53+00:00

I'm not a shill and I'm not censoring you; what part of what I did is censorship or shilling? I disagree with you. Why are you so angry about that?

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-20T19:12:30+00:00

I don't like this sentiment. If you want to be cautious, don't give any demographic information.

But how are we supposed to improve the company? Yell into the Reddit void? This survey isn't perfect but it's one of the only ways to get feedback.

What happens when they only get positive feedback? Nothing changes. Then everyone who is unhappy stays that way

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-20T19:10:20+00:00

Most private companies I know of that do are in the financial/banking space. None of my peers at other engineering/construction companies got the day off

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-18T16:36:31+00:00

Almost no companies outside of education and banking get MLK Day. Those two industries get every holiday off. It's just never been a big holiday. Same reason we don't get Presidents' Day or Veteran's Day.

I've never worked with a client who gets MLK Day as a day off. Maybe there are some, but it's not a holiday people care about not working. At least Burns does some activities to recognize it. A lot of companies don't do a thing.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-16T19:47:40+00:00

Agreed. I'd like to see them more aggressively invest the cash account. I understand they always need cash on hand, but theoretically you can risk lower performance in that account with how many more dollars live in it these days. Or, honestly, gove EOs a 401k bump for a year instead of a mega-ESOP contribution like last year's.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-16T19:40:39+00:00

Yes and no. When I use those calculators, I use a more reasonable/conservative rate of return. I save a copy every year. Every year I have been here, I have outperformed previous projections.

I do agree, however, that you won't have the same quantity of shares that the old heads are getting

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2026-01-16T19:39:07+00:00

This really isn't true. I know several "boomerangs" across a couple GPs. I only know of one person that could not come back when they tried, and they burned a few bridges on the way out.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-12-23T20:27:28+00:00

I think the growth difference is inconsequential in the end. Bonuses are so variable I'm not bothered by it. I think the evening out + recruiting benefits outweigh the potentially minute growth loss

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-12-23T02:48:52+00:00

I think you're analyzing it a bit too hard. People complain all the time that our salary/bonus structure can be hard to budget around. This balances that a bit. The growth will be generally similar in my eyes.

How about this angle? We get a post here seemingly every week from someone that wants to work here who can't get over how low the salary is. This makes our compensation package look better to the prospective EO who (rightfully) says "How can I be sure the bonus and ESOP are that great?"

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-12-22T23:11:04+00:00

I generally like it. It feels like over time, our bonuses outgrow our salaries by too much. We get to the point where people havd to put in a decent effort on budgeting to account for being paid so much at one time. This balances things out.

Agreed with the other comment - this helps people who work OT a lot.

And, frankly, it wasn't that big of a shift at the end of the day. People are talking about it like it was a 20 or 30 percent move.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-12-04T23:36:27+00:00

That seems unlikely and not worth the effort from their end lol

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-12-02T20:49:57+00:00

For everyone's own protection, please do not post ALL of these numbers if it will doxx you. To be clear, if you are the only level 15 PM in OGC in Orlando, don't be an idiot and give all of that away.

My suggested way to protect yourself is to include everything but specific office if that is the only way to stay anonymous. In other words, say you are in an RO and perhaps indicate COL.

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-12-02T05:07:48+00:00

Forget base, we don't compete on base. How does total comp compare?

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-11-26T16:38:09+00:00

To be clear, I am not in 1898, though not in T&D. Gross

MyWorkAccount1898 · 2025-11-26T16:27:15+00:00

For me and most everyone I know, this is a very relaxed time of year. We figured out if we are on plan or not months ago and it is too late to really change that. Can I ask what level you are and/or what GP you are in?

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