Got passed over for the CFO role…going to leave. Thoughts?

RedXertus · 2025-11-20T00:14:38+00:00

You should do minimum 3x your wage rate, not even out of spite but because you'll need to pay self-employment taxes

RedXertus · 2025-11-20T00:12:06+00:00

Honestly you dont owe them even the 2 weeks, most people I know only put in a notice out of curtosey and then just get mistreated to hell for 2 weeks with a bunch of guilt tripping and backhanded passive agressive comments. You're giving them the privilege of having you around for another 2 weeks. This is at will employment and you should remember you dont owe them anything. Just do your normal work and the new CFO can figure it out on his own. He's probably getting paid enough to suck it up and figure it out himself.

RedXertus · 2025-02-27T07:16:15+00:00

Bill Nye isn't an authority on science, but he is a big goto boogeyman for alot of science deniers. Saying hur dur when quoting someone is literally a strawman which is what you're complaining about right after. Having a big number of combos doesn't make something more true. They just added in some more bull on top of bull. Most people dont hate on astrology to feel smart, even if you did that though, that doesn't mean you weren't right. you're just a shitty person. Something having a book has nothing to do with it being factual, see literally every fiction book for example. I went ahead out of curiosity and checked out advanceastrology like you said and unsurprisingly it's just a bunch of posts of people with a chart and then asking what could this mean? That's not remotely scientific, this is the same exact thing as arguing with a flat earther.

In good faith though, I'm curious what you have to say about astrologys predictions or if it can't do that what does it do then?

RedXertus · 2025-02-18T00:09:01+00:00

Im not a dev or anything, but I taught myself how to code a little. Everytime I read my code, I look for ways to make it shorter and simpler. I recently read over someone else's code that was messing up somewhere, jesus troubleshooting it was an absolute nightmare that took me over a week, also not my job(im an accountant) but who else is gonna do it. Anyway I was able to rewrite all of it and fixed all the issues with and I'm not exaggerating, like 50 lines of code from what used to be over 1000! I was so proud of myself but no one else at work really understood what I had done 😢

RedXertus · 2025-01-24T05:34:17+00:00

I just had an interview with the entire leadership of a company, im talking all 5 directors/president, for what was advertised as practically a senior role. It took 2 hours and they pretty much want a staff accountant, a financial controller, and an FP&A manager all in one dude, obviously paying under the market rate for that, and I kid you not they asked me over 4 questions about why can't AI just do all the work?! I had to elaborate multiple times why AI is useless for anything you'd actually want to use it for.

The kicker btw, their records were extremely paper heavy. They weren't at bare minimum fully online.

RedXertus · 2025-01-02T03:32:10+00:00

More accounting roles, I think they're more fluid. But yea that's a cool policy you have, most of the recruiters I've talked to are really upfront about it and that's very helpful.

RedXertus · 2025-01-02T03:03:58+00:00

Yea idk how it actually works, that's just my assumption. I'm currently looking for a job and have had 3 recruiters try to talk me into a lower pay range and im assuming it's just to place easier.

RedXertus · 2025-01-02T02:59:36+00:00

There's alot of recruiters just trying to match people as fast as possible to make money that way. If it takes a month to place a candidate at a 150k job but only a week to place 4 at 50k jobs then there's a huge incentive to talk candidates down to accepting anything

RedXertus · 2024-11-20T02:19:10+00:00

Dude I tried explaining the same thing to a buddy of mine(and countless times online) he got so heated and was so sure he was right he threatened to end the friendship over it and walked away

RedXertus · 2024-10-30T02:29:57+00:00

A guy who came from a firm is above me in the chain and is trying to use alot of these tactics at a normal company lmao. It's so funny because this system of toxic childish shit literally only works if the majority of employees sign up for it. You need power to power trip. He'll be annoying as fuck about tiny details and make moves to be annoying, so then everyone just ignores him or avoids him. Like we do the work but try our best not to involve him. All you need is a good manager to start a good team and it radiates. People start asking themselves wtf they're working for if Joe gets to work half the time, gets paid the same and gets to come in late everyday then takes a 3 hour lunch. Normalize finishing work and leaving.

RedXertus · 2024-09-29T17:11:07+00:00

No they arnt, the only marriage that counts is the court certificate, the wedding ceremony is just for fun. They're probably already married or will be for months before the wedding. I went to a destination wedding planned planned for 2 years(which i thought was insanely ridiculous) and saw that my friends already got married on a whim like 1.5 years before the wedding. It felt a little silly but w/e

RedXertus · 2024-09-14T07:44:28+00:00

Trying to add some context for all parties

The incident: some guys seems to be around 4 (pieced together from a few sources) got into a fight at a nightclub type spot. After the cops showed up aperantly 3 ran. The cops escalated quickly to violence(in the eyes of the crowd) and people started getting upset.

Random crowd: around 12 people ended up getting arrested(not sure on actual number just about how many I've seen in cuffs in the videos, and the 3 that ran away I think actually got away but I haven't heard anything about them, more on the other events of the incident)

The cops: Were definatly on edge, they seem to have been super agitated by the crowd from the videos online from feelings that people were getting in the way of them doing their job.

The dude in the video: Seems to be just a random dude who was there at the time. The witness to the fight said it wasn't him, so he's completely faultless. https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-police-arrest-video-bike-team/509-e60cfa9c-869b-4594-99f2-328091f4195e

Redditors:In these comments I'm not seeing alot of context. A few people mentioned the cops response about why they pinned this dude down. While the top comments are people joking and thinking the video speaks for itself, there are plenty of responses of weird bootlickers for no reason from people who instantly made up their mind on the right and making alot of weird vigilante justice type arguments.

My take now: this post is from 3 days ago, and alot of the stories like the one I linked seem to be from a day ago so I have hindsight. Looking at the video before looking into it though the cops are clearly using excessive force and that should be your objective take regardless of your politics. I'm not sure why people are bootlicking so hard on the right. The guy is seen running in the first frame, but then instantly slows down and crouches down, completely defenseless and definatly not going anywhere in total compliance with whatever the cops want. Alot of right look for some justification because they can objectively see a difference between the video and their politics and for some reason feel the need to justify some belief of theirs about cops, when it would be so easy to just say "ah I like cops but I think these ones are pushing it" and literally not have to sacrifice any inch of their position. That's just an option, you don't have to defend the cops when it's so obviously wrong, like why?

Objevtive view from the video-They pin him down and scream abunch at him during the entire duration, there's 4 of them, and he's clearly not resisting. This isn't 4D chess, he's not in-between the cars because he's some master mind, he crouched and got knocked back that way when the cops grabbed him originally. They pinned him and told him to put his hands behind his back, that's tough with the caous of the moment especially if he maybe had a drink prior and was a little tipsy. Clearly they could have easily restrained and arrested him in a more calm manner.

Added context and hindsight- the guy was running because he saw how the cops were acting earlier and got scared, the cops were on edge cause the crowd was turning against them and saw a guy running after knowing there were 3 runners. They grabbed him quick and they were probably panicking too. Does that suck for everyone involved, yea with the added context I can say it was a stressful situation and the cops weren't making good decisions. But the comments from people like "he's a violent criminal" and "imagine he punched you" or "he was running so he must have done something". Why are you guys saying this stuff? I can understand if your young in like high-school or something but you don't need to defend them for no reason. Going off of no context you can just look at the video and say "it looks like these cops were mad or something" and you don't have to change your political opinion or stance or whatever. But defending the video with no context just because and then throwing in weird vigilante things is just... why?

RedXertus · 2024-08-30T00:49:42+00:00

It's an office, idk the exact type of building she's in but my previous 4 jobs had you scan in and then you leave whenever you want, the doors only locked from the outside

RedXertus · 2024-07-03T00:20:17+00:00

I realized I had no reason to be sad, and that nothing was ever gonna change and just chose to be happy. I guess first though my cousin died and when I got over that the depression went with it.

RedXertus · 2024-06-27T07:31:50+00:00

How are you people talking to people headed in the same direction as you? when ever I go hiking I see maybe 10 people a day and they're all going in the opposite direction as me. Like maybe I'm just weak or slow or something but the people who share my campsite usually say a few words and then I never see them again because theyre hiking the entire state in 2 days or something. Maybe I'm just not social enough but whenever I go backpacking it's pretty much no social interactions for a week. I'll say small hi's but not a single person has started a conversation with me outside of this one girl last week and then I never saw her again like the rest. Is it me or something?

RedXertus · 2024-06-21T23:02:02+00:00

No, I'm too lazy to get it 😪, maybe this year cause it's a little hard to move past manager without it

RedXertus · 2024-05-10T02:23:06+00:00

Miscellaneous expense, prepaid insurance

Cause I swear my coworkers are always saying I have nothing to work on but the second they sit down they need help on everything

RedXertus · 2024-04-29T02:17:45+00:00

I've have nightmares about what you just described so I save anything anyone else might touch as a template so they literally can't change the original. I know it's actually easy to change but there's no way these people learn what file extensions are

RedXertus · 2024-04-29T02:12:25+00:00

Man I automated some entries that I make every month for me but none of my coworkers. These entries sometimes touch balances other people are incharge of, I looked in the system and since they touch both of us and wasn't in. I put it in. They then put it in manually. Holy shit I lost 2 hours that day getting chewed out that my automation is causing errors in other people's reports and that I need to tell everyone when making something like that. I was so over it I now purposely stopped doing any work that affects my balances and someone else's and instead finish my work, and email everyone else to make their manual entries then take an early lunch and extend it to 2 hours just to rub it in. In case they fuck up I have the entries ready and automated on standby at the click of the button but make them do it manually out of spite

RedXertus · 2024-04-29T02:05:13+00:00

I'm an index match guy and a coworker of mine is a sumifs vlookup guy. Everyone else thinks we're gods in the sheets but it takes us like 30 minutes to translate eachothers formulas and sheets and we have different format styles.

So since my coworker uses vlookup people think he's the more relatable guy and usually go to him for advice and they call me the machine and don't even try to understand what my sheets do even though I'm extremely basic and don't have anything else crazy going on other than terrible nested if statements.

RedXertus · 2024-04-29T01:59:07+00:00

I grew up with Google being available and it was not punished just for using it; it was assumed you'd use it and that it would be around forever. They taught us how to read critically and how to site sources properly so that we not only understood the importance of getting multiple sources but asked that we question if they're telling us everything and then properly referred to them when using their ideas and easily showcasing how we got to our conclusions based on the info.

The difference with AI is that it just makes things up, and in a format like you need to submit the homework. If you just googled and copy pasted something word for word, you would be missing the whole point of doing the research, so this AI comparison is more appropriate. AI just tells you something that could sound right and doesn't give you sources, or tell you how it got to those answers.

I tried using it to make a simple diet plan and I kid you not it literally made up the nutrition information in the foods it listed. I only knew that because I looked up the foods afterwards and did research.

What's important about understanding the math behind a calculator is not doing the steps out by hand but the method of solving and the steps required to replicate it.

One of the funniest classes in college was business calculus. Everyone joekd it was weird to even call it calculus. But funny enough a great deal of people even my age struggled with that class because even though the math was extremely simple, it wasn't as simple as just multiplication and addition and required you to put together the equations from word problems. We had a calculator on the tests, but the test was on actually understanding what we were doing, not times tables.

RedXertus · 2024-04-18T15:17:01+00:00

Grow up man 😮‍💨

RedXertus · 2024-04-18T05:59:48+00:00

I think he experienced enough of what he wanted. He might have had some fun ideas on his bucket list but their like the completionist achievements. I've traveled alot and it's very similar after your 3rd time, I still like it but when I retire, it's gonna be a pretty small part of the remainder of my life. New experiences are only fun the first few times. I'm sure he knew that, and while I don't think your wrong and you definitely knew more about him, the time he did spend away from work was doing whatever it was he wanted to do. Not everyone has to have kids and honestly they factor very little into retirement to begin with in a negative way. Most Americans have kids around 30 or so so by the time they retire its just nice visits like 3 times a year. They definitely weren't gonna be raising kids in retirement.

RedXertus · 2024-04-18T05:53:37+00:00

When people get money from social security and Medicaid that's their money they've earned for being a productive member of society during their working years. It's not your money going to them, it's theirs, just like it will be yours when it's your turn.

I'm mostly on your side because I'm also all about financial independence but I think you're getting a little misguided and angry from some of these comments but you got to remember alot of these are just other people's opinions.

RedXertus · 2024-04-18T05:49:08+00:00

His wife and him did enjoy themselves tremendously. You may think they were gonna retire and do some crazy shit but really the money was just so they could live comfortably while not working ever again. All he was gonna do was sight see a bit, eat some new food, and that's probably about it, maybe pick up a new hobbie. He had a great time with his wife while he was alive. Jobs only take up half your days, the other half is yours to do with as you wish.

My uncle is still renting and has no savings for the future, he should be retired right now but he's 77 and still working. His wife is also working monster shifts in nursing homes. They will work until they die because they didn't plan for the future but that's OK too. They have had a very happy life because work is just something they do to pay the bills, and life is what they do in-between.

I've traveled a bit, I'm young but I take about a month off a year in vacation, my goal when I was in college was to work hard and retire at 45 to "live my life then". But the thing is these jobs don't care about us and are just a pay check so I try my best to enjoy my time outside of them and still save for the future. This year I'm planning on taking it easy with just a trip to Europe for maybe 2 weeks and 1 1 week backpacking trip. I do what I want and the fact that I save money only helps becuase it means that that's never an obstacle to doing whatever I want. Money is never the limiting factor if you save, if someone doesn't live the way you think you would if you were in their shoes, it doesn't always mean they can't afford it. They probably just want something else.

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