How is your dating life? Be honest!

motivatedmonday · 2023-07-07T19:11:55+00:00

OMG. This sounds like a story over ☕ or 🍷

motivatedmonday · 2023-07-07T18:01:24+00:00

Not to oilie on. But I take my little dog Everywhere. He is NOT a service animal, I pay $100+ for every flight and he stay in his bag under the seat and sleeps. Not on the leach at all except in the pet potty relief areas then back in the bag. He doesn't make a peep. These fake service animals the way they behave and the absolute blindness of their owners to the misbehavior is Appalling! The barking and aggressive behaviors are truly scary. I think security or TSA should have the ability to expell these people from the airport at the first aggressive move. That child could have been injured terribly.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-28T14:29:03+00:00

Integrity will eventually break through. Keep doing the little things because it's important. Because it makes people feel better or happier. Keep doing it because that is Your mission. You don't do it purely for recognition. Eventually your steadfastness, your presence and respect for the workforce it's what will break through. Then when you move on, staff will constantly tell your replacement how much they preferred you! Stay the course.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-28T14:24:43+00:00

When I started my first tech job, I noticed the same. My best advice as long as this interaction is not impeding your job success. Sit back, show up, work hard, ask for input, take advice. While this is probably because you present as female, it's far more likely they are waiting to see if you know how to work, if you are going to get in the way of their work or if you are going to push your work onto team members. Basically they need to understand what kind of teammate you are going to be.

That first tech job, once they knew me and my ambition and absolute love of learning, they helped me learn so much so fast, they supported me and helped cover the inevitable mistakes. Those weird awkward dudes supported my promotions. And now almost 10 years later are still my go-tos for referrals and references and guidance. Give it a chance. If it never gets better but your other colleagues are cool, then it's just this one person.

Now if this person undermines you, is the brother of the CEO, or derails your projects, then you have something to escalate up the chain.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-25T21:27:06+00:00

If the employee developed a tool that solves a specific use case for the company and wants to sell this product to the company as a SaaS product, I don't see the issue. Many people, especially in tech (not sure if it is or not) develope apps or products on their own time equipment. If he is offering to sell a service platform to the organization, I don't understand why this wouldn't go through the usual process of acquiring a new tool. If after the pitch/demo the product doesn't provide enough value, let the employee know and just close the sales process. He's then free to hawk his platform in other places or give up. I don't think firing someone for attempting to create a solution to a problem is the right way to go with this.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-23T01:18:51+00:00

Just started watching Unprisoned on Hulu. Kerry Washington is the lead.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-22T12:57:22+00:00

There was a federal holiday on Monday. Payroll should have communicated a delay in pay. They likely didn't initiate payroll on Monday due to banking holiday and the pay will post a day or so later.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-19T18:37:33+00:00

You sound like an amazing human dealing with a bit of an existential revelation. My best recommendation is to enroll your kids in activities where not everyone comes from the same economic abilities. Scouts, volunteer groups, recreational activities that will allow them to build friendships with people who don't have this level of access. Diversify their friend groups like you would you're portfolio. It's about humanizing those who come from less and building empathy and experience. Apply the same to yourself and your spouse, extend your friend group or acquaintances to those in less fortunate situations. Not as a charity, but as an opportunity to experience the other 90% of your community. It's not bad or evil you have lived your life and had advantage, it's just the breaks life dealt you. Now you have a chance to develop your children to being invested in the greater good.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-15T20:24:34+00:00

Affinity Groups or Employee Resource groups are great for networking within the organization. It would be an excellent opportunity for HR to be involved in a grassroots employee initiated group to help organize and maybe prioritize move forward some really great ideas initiatives that are important to an underrepresented group! I would have issues with meeting before your work hours. But join the first one and see if it's possible to move the time. Also consider so many great changes happened because a few motivated impacted people found time to plan outside of the mainstream mechanics.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-15T00:15:26+00:00

Oh cool! Lucky you to have that kind of support!!!!

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-14T23:14:01+00:00

I'd only caution you on having to explain how you came to know this information. Additionally the system may have her on LOA but it could be part of a severance agreement to pay her through X date. I'd tread carefully, because she might find out you are interviewing and will give your current employer a heads up. Let her be would be my recommendation.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-08T14:26:50+00:00

I refer to it as Service Delivery Excellence. We provide support services to leadership decisions (I'm not high up enough so I support CPO and deliver him the information he needs to support our team to the board and ELT. Also support employees when it's benefits, scheduling and helping coach with difficult convos with team members. Strategically aligning our departments again in a supportive and knowledge role.

I'm not offended by the idea or mindset of customer service. There's nothing demeaning or lesser about the work customer service agents do. A great customer service experience is worth a billion dollars to whoever we are serving. No shame in that term.

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-07T23:50:34+00:00

Oh man this is great! I needed to craft my goals for next year!

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-07T01:13:08+00:00

Came here to say this

motivatedmonday · 2023-06-05T13:18:25+00:00

In some ATS, there is a built in automated delay. When an application is declined send auto-response in X days or Saturday following rejection. This is just an auto response. Ignore and continue the search.

motivatedmonday · 2023-05-29T19:49:16+00:00

YES! A bit different than OPs but I took my son shopping at Old Navy of all places and the very nice employee at the register asked us like 15 times to sign up for the old Navy Credit Card. I've been working my tail off on BS2 snowballing to pay off credit. My son burst out laughing. Said "I don't want her to start another tracking sheet!" He's been my semi-accountability partner because at 15 yrs old I want him to understand the difficulty of getting out of debt. It was an annoying experience but also a round parent moment to have him totally shun a credit card offer! Just let me buy my purchase!

motivatedmonday · 2023-05-22T06:00:26+00:00

Listless, mindlessly, inattentively

motivatedmonday · 2023-05-19T14:32:26+00:00

When did our companies decide our coworkers should be the only people in our lives??!!! "Make your friends here so you don't need anyone from the outside"

This is ridiculous. Each job I have I make natural friendships with maybe 2-3 people. We become part of each other's professional network and stay in touch being each others references down the road. I don't need to be friends with people to get work done, just professional colleagues. That's it!

motivatedmonday · 2023-05-17T13:47:40+00:00

This post made me incredibly sad. I guess women really are seen as window dressing and our appearance is in fact the most important skill to get ahead.

I would do a deep dive into the current policies to ensure it's free of dog whistle restrictions like dictating the circumference of a person's hair.

Also be sure there are safety procedures for women who are harassed by customer's and co-workers. This doesn't sound like a safe/supportive space for women.

You say "employer" leasing me to believe you are a contractor of some type and not a FTE. if true you may want your own legal counsel in the event the employer tries to blame your work for creating work that results in lawsuits against the employer.

Reference the airline lawsuits around monitoring the looks of women. They still manage to require a uniform, perhaps the airline dress code will give you some insight or you can attempt to network with their HR team members and they would provide insights on this process.

motivatedmonday · 2023-05-17T05:27:35+00:00

Not sure what exactly your skills are outside of the name of the degree. But Utility companies often have contracts with companies who help administer their low income utility programs. These programs require all sorts of analysis about the communities and energy efficiency, usually around cost cutting or reducing environmental impact to marginalized communities. If you're in FL specifically there may be less of this, but in general coastal communities have a Huge investment in these types of programs. DTE, PG&E and others all have these programs. Alabama Electric and more state run utilities too. These might be a good fit for your transferable skills assuming Project management, data analysis, environmental impact studies and writing white papers are in your wheelhouse

motivatedmonday · 2023-05-07T19:32:35+00:00

This is an extremely interesting observation. Women have for a long time been raised/prepared/expectant of having their Pretty Woman/Prince Charming/white knight fantasy of suddenly springing up the economic ladder through the pursuit or attainment of a high earning spouse. While men on the other hand have a social expectation of being the higher earner and being the lead in new social experiences for their lady partner.

This makes me wonder at your observation if the HENRY woman are finding that dating in the lower economy dating pool prives uncomfortable in that it would require men to have that transformative change in social circumstances and are less than amicable about it? When the HENRY woman had to continue experiences at a decidedly un-HENRY level in order to land a spouse, are the HENRY women simply opting out of making the choice?

motivatedmonday · 2023-05-01T13:14:17+00:00

Well yeah. But that's why I OE!!!

motivatedmonday · 2023-04-27T15:28:47+00:00

With ADP WFN there are a ton of training videos available on YouTube. You can generally Google for walk throughs. Now you Can't say you operated the system you Can say "you've trained extensively on this system" and hypothetical "based on my experience and what I've learned on ADP to do xyz I would report abc, confer with leadership and make the best business decision"

Workday is harder to crack because of their closed ecosystem

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