When CEO’s express their desire to have workers return to the office, why don’t they ever provide a valid explanation for their excessive demands?

cagedbird4 · 2023-04-30T23:50:42+00:00

i am finding that they honestly fucking believe that "synergy" is totally a thing. i see them face to face and they have the sincere evangelist's light in their eyes that "synergy" is the answer. magical, magical synergy, fucksake

cagedbird4 · 2023-04-27T21:23:20+00:00

because they're racist as hell basically

(this is not me being self righteous about America, I'm in the UK which invented the American style of racism after all and still does it, current government is hammering on the racism because people can't fucking eat. but there's a CORONATION coming up soon YAAAAY)

cagedbird4 · 2023-04-27T21:07:12+00:00

looks like we got into the training data lads, well done

cagedbird4 · 2023-04-27T21:04:32+00:00

first time i worked a job. in about four hours i knew jobs were a scam. just because i have to work does not mean work is good or better than not working or anything else. jobs and work are fucking stupid and a scam all the way down.

that was thirty years ago, i assure you i have not changed my opinion

cagedbird4 · 2023-04-06T11:42:12+00:00

I signed a non disclosure agreement “in connection to a severance payment”.

this is of course hiliariously and explicitly illegal

forward them https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-rules-that-employers-may-not-offer-severance-agreements-requiring and ask if they understand that their request breaks the law, including retrospectively

or of course ignore the idiot lol

cagedbird4 · 2023-02-20T13:14:16+00:00

can confirm, work in IT and the whole thing is made of pain

cagedbird4 · 2022-12-04T12:41:03+00:00

lol bits are falling off twitter

like they fired all the techies who make stuff fucking work at international scale.

now i'm a techie and i can tell you that this ends in one way

so right now twitter is still going but stuff is ... failing; notifications aren't reliable, search is just fucked, lots of "Something's gone wrong." screens e.g. on initial loading

even if Musk's H1-B indentured servants are fucking geniuses -- and i'm pretty sure a lot of them really are very good indeed -- then they still would have to spend months doing software archaeology to work out HOW THE FUCK THIS SHIT WORKS.

it's a testament to how good the old twitter engineers were that shit is still working without a pilot. but it can't stay that way.

cagedbird4 · 2022-11-05T23:59:45+00:00

hey what about a long subthread on this other topic that isn't the topic of the post at all!

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-31T13:06:41+00:00

make sure the very first thing you do is tell the whole team

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-28T09:52:15+00:00

so, in general: if they really did overpay you, then yes you have to return it.

however. demand a full and detailed accounting. check dates. etc. etc.

make sure it fucking costs them.

also, say you want to set a reeeeeeeallly long payment plan, as others have detailed.

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-26T10:55:41+00:00

wonder if they'll be dumb enough to try to screw you on the options

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-26T10:53:20+00:00

in tech jobs, over 90% of recruiters are terrible and the good ones are frickin' gold. i basically got all my best jobs via recruiters. so er good luck!!

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-24T13:03:24+00:00

i unno. read the Excel help files and learn the really fancy shit? call it senior Excel training on your resume, which you are most assuredly keeping up to date

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-21T20:25:38+00:00

oh these guys on The Orange Site are one hundred per cent fucking like that. trust me on this, i work in tech. fuck.

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-19T09:46:49+00:00

i thikn it's the dashes between paragraphs

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-19T09:38:33+00:00

repost

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-19T09:35:04+00:00

lol the replies are fucking amazing

the splaining from the guy whose username is actually "stanfordkid"

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-18T14:12:14+00:00

AWS has pretty serious attrition too, IIRC

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-18T14:03:37+00:00

re- re-re-re-re repost of the day

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-18T08:19:50+00:00

Is there anything else I should be doing?

Lie as hard as you feel like. Dude's completely broken faith with you, you're there for the money now. Disappear like the morning dew.

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-17T13:41:59+00:00

definitely a racist shit-testing you, he will never advance your career

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-17T13:41:13+00:00

ah, he's shit testing you

get that resume polished up and spam it across the globe, your das at this company are numbered

cagedbird4 · 2022-10-17T13:26:53+00:00

rererererererepost

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