Job and General Employment Thread

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:43 pm

Same company in the building? Ours doesn’t look as nice as that pick. It was renovated in the 80s, probably the last major renovation

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:11 pm

Same company in the building? Ours doesn’t look as nice as that pick. It was renovated in the 80s, probably the last major renovation

Oh, no. We were in there for a very long time, but not since the beginning.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu May 05, 2022 5:26 pm

The last four months of work have gone by in a blur. My 5af posting has suffered.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon May 09, 2022 11:51 am

I'm lucky enough to work at a company that treats its employees rather well and thus we had next to no turnover during "The Great Resignation", so I haven't really had to participate in any interviews. One of our marketing guys that I work pretty closely with is retiring and today was the first interview to replace him... woof. I forgot how some of these things are like pulling teeth. Couple that with the fact that I had to do it on my own as the other guy that was going to be in the interview with me had to go for a family emergency.

Hopefully the next two are better.

Postby **obhave** » Wed May 11, 2022 1:31 am

A senior manager just sent me a message that they believed there is a culture problem at the company. And I just wanted to reply with "yeah, duh, you have to be blind to not see people are very unhappy".

I've been working for a year to elevate these concerns but not much change.

Postby **obhave** » Wed May 11, 2022 1:33 am

I'm lucky enough to work at a company that treats its employees rather well and thus we had next to no turnover during "The Great Resignation", so I haven't really had to participate in any interviews. One of our marketing guys that I work pretty closely with is retiring and today was the first interview to replace him... woof. I forgot how some of these things are like pulling teeth. Couple that with the fact that I had to do it on my own as the other guy that was going to be in the interview with me had to go for a family emergency.

Hopefully the next two are better.

Hiring has been my life for 6 months. I am just so bored with it. I don't know how recruiters do it.

Postby **NTP66** » Wed May 11, 2022 6:40 am

A senior manager just sent me a message that they believed there is a culture problem at the company. And I just wanted to reply with "yeah, duh, you have to be blind to not see people are very unhappy".

I've been working for a year to elevate these concerns but not much change.

Is the issue senior management, or the worker bees, though? When I read your post, I would have bet on you ending it with "yeah, the problem is you"...

Postby **obhave** » Wed May 11, 2022 10:00 am

A senior manager just sent me a message that they believed there is a culture problem at the company. And I just wanted to reply with "yeah, duh, you have to be blind to not see people are very unhappy".

I've been working for a year to elevate these concerns but not much change.
Is the issue senior management, or the worker bees, though? When I read your post, I would have bet on you ending it with "yeah, the problem is you"...

Oh certainly upper management is an issue. But we also had a re-org and massive growth recently. And at the worker bee level, some people joined a startup without fully realizing what that meant (multiple-hats, switches in priorities).

Postby **NTP66** » Wed May 11, 2022 10:55 am

It's PPL cash out time. Even after maxing out the 120 hours, a long vacation, and other time off this year, I still have way more time off than I can possibly use.

Postby **meow** » Wed May 11, 2022 11:49 am

I do 40 hours in May and 40 in November like clockwork. I hit another PTO accrual milestone last year and it accrue way too much now. 13.57 hours every two weeks

Postby **NTP66** » Wed May 11, 2022 11:50 am

My wife doesn't have the option of cashing out where she works, and she is routinely bumping into the limit. I keep telling her to take more time off, but she just doesn't want to listen.

Postby **MR25** » Wed May 11, 2022 11:53 am

I have 60+ sick days and have no idea what to do with them

Postby **meow** » Wed May 11, 2022 11:54 am

Get sick. But get sick somewhere nice like Cancun

Postby **dodint** » Wed May 11, 2022 11:54 am

Our sick time gets tacked onto our total service time when we retire, which bumps up our multiplier. There are people that retire with thousands and thousands of hours of sick leave. It accrues at 4/hr per two week pay period.

Postby **mac5155** » Wed May 11, 2022 12:30 pm

My wife's been 3/3 on call backs from applications but nothing has gotten further than just an initial chat with the recruiter.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Fri May 13, 2022 6:22 pm

20 years with my current job today. Four companies, five bosses, and seems like 100 different projects. Celebrating by staying at the office working late on Friday night. Yee-haw!

Postby **willeyeam** » Fri May 13, 2022 6:27 pm

My man. I quit mine today

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Fri May 13, 2022 6:51 pm

Postby **MR25** » Fri May 13, 2022 7:10 pm

CFO ulf incoming

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue May 17, 2022 9:59 am

The continued exodus from my previous employer continues. With the communications major gone, all of last year's full time faculty have left for greener pastures. One professor is going to Colombia for at least a year on a Fulbright grant, and taking his entire family. That sounds really cool, tbh.

As I was teaching out the semester, my email remained active until today. Logged into it out of habit, and it wouldn't pull up. Weird, but it's all good.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue May 17, 2022 10:15 am

My wife's first day back was yesterday and as expected, she now has no major responsibility, lost access to a lot of things, and seemingly no significance. I feel for her. She said she sat around all day wondering what to do. Today her boss has been in her office, door closed, all morning. Basically my wife's sitting there waiting to be fired. All as a direct result of taking FMLA/maternity leave.

Postby **obhave** » Tue May 17, 2022 10:16 am

My wife's first day back was yesterday and as expected, she now has no major responsibility, lost access to a lot of things, and seemingly no significance. I feel for her. She said she sat around all day wondering what to do. Today her boss has been in her office, door closed, all morning. Basically my wife's sitting there waiting to be fired. All as a direct result of taking FMLA/maternity leave.

Postby **Kane** » Tue May 17, 2022 10:17 am

Not a lawyer, but that sounds like a slam dunk lawsuit.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue May 17, 2022 10:24 am

That sounds awful and litigious. Why are companies this stupid in this environment?

Postby **mac5155** » Tue May 17, 2022 10:24 am

I posted in the legal thread about it, but yeah. It was day 2 back. She was hoping for it to get better but we've been contemplating calling a lawyer. But what can they do... Her salary is unchanged. Get her reinstated to the job duties? Okay, she'd still be black balled. Get the boss fired? That'd be ideal from a vengeance perspective but nothing else. It's a no win situation for her it seems (unless she is fired and then can get some sort of compensation).

BTW she's been looking for other opportunities, obviously.