Job and General Employment Thread

[Morkle]

Source of the post I feel for her, that has to suck for being almost six months pregnant.

Your wife's boss is a Canaan.

All of this in an effort to save money. Now they've lost a day of productivity when they could have flown in last night, and worked all day today and flew home in the evening.

Just makes no sense to me.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Is the boss also a woman?

[mikey]

And if so, does she drink apple cider vinegar...?

[Morkle]

Is the boss also a woman?

Yes.

[Beveridge]

Is it a productivity company?

[willeyeam]

Is it a productivity company?

Too many women

[NAN]

That happened to me once when I was in audit. There was an inventory in Greenville SC I had to go to that started at 9am. Instead of letting me go down the night before, I had to fly out extremely early to Charlotte and then have a connection to Greenville. Did the inventory, was done around 3pm. And left to fly home. Flight was delayed for like 4 hours (had some drinks and dinner), and then it was cancelled at like 11pm. Got a hotel, which only had a conference suite, so it was expensive, rented a car to get there, got like 4 hours of sleep, got a flight the next morning to Cleveland (flights to the burgh were full until the evening), got a rental car, drove to Pgh, and missed a day of work.

So instead of spending $100-150 bucks for a room the night before, I probably dropped around $1,000 for room, 2 cars, dinner, breakfast, etc. And lost a day of productivity.

[LITT]

220 emails I came back to after vacation. Absurd.

220 emails a day?

[tifosi77]

220 emails I came back to after vacation. Absurd.

I once had a job where I had my own fax machine, and overnight it would churn through an entire ream of paper as new music clearance requests came in from overseas affiliates. If I forgot to replenish the paper before I left, I'd have to sit through like half an hour of the thing printing out faxes that were stored in memory. It was an incredibly wasteful system.

Each one of the faxes was backed up by a notification email, and often there would be a follow up email from the requester.

[mikey]

Now, I use Notepad all the time (the native Windows app, a carryover from Win95), I use it for notes, I use it as a way to de-weaponize stuff that's copied out of Chrome or Word, etc.

Today, I got a resume sent over to me in .txt - I believe that's a first.

Fairly young person too, 2012 college grad.

[NTP66]

1. That's crazy
2. Notepad2 >>> Notepad, Notepad++, and any other lightweight text editor

[Silentom]

Notepad2, eh? I'll have to check that out - I use ++.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Yeah ++ is dope if you need to quickly take a look at code and review. I use regular notepad for trace print outs from our product or quickly copying info from emails, webpages, etc.

[NTP66]

I have used Notepad2 for over a decade, and even though it hasn't been updated since 2012, it's still superior. I use it exclusively for both notes and scripting (PowerShell, mostly), and highly recommend it. The code formatting alone is terrific.

[shafnutz05]

Yeah ++ is dope if you need to quickly take a look at code and review. I use regular notepad for trace print outs from our product or quickly copying info from emails, webpages, etc.

The other nice thing about Notepad is that if you have to open/edit a Word document that is locked for editing, you can open it in Notepad and remove the password line to get access to it. I've used it a few times editing Word docs that were locked by employees that have since left the company.

[tifosi77]

Two months ago, my last place posted that they had an opening for a transactional paralegal. This is much more my wheelhouse, in terms of experience, and I thought, "Gee, if that position had been available while I was still there, I totally would've asked for a transfer."

Turns out, the reason that position opened up in the first place is because they replaced me on the marketing clearance team with one of the transactional paralegals.

*sigh*

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

So basically they hated you?

[tifosi77]

Pretty much.

Honestly, it felt like that from about the second, maybe third month I was there.

[shafnutz05]

Talent Acquisition is the field that keeps on giving.

A candidate for a position missed her interview in one of our offices on Friday. Over the weekend, my colleague received an email from her profusely apologizing for missing it, as there was a family emergency. What was that emergency, you ask? Her husband apparently fell 30 feet from a bridge and is/was in critical but stable condition.

Now, you can imagine I've heard a lot of excuses, but we didn't see any reason to not believe her. However, just in case we *were* skeptical, she was kind enough to also email us photographic evidence to show "just how severe and why I couldn't make it in". Scroll down, and there are two photos of her husband laying in a hospital bed with a ventilator, a lot of blood, etc. Did not need to see that first thing on a Monday morning. Obviously terrible, but sending the photos is so bizarre I can't help but laugh.

Love my line of work

[meow]

I got totally surprised by a promotion this morning. No title change - went from a Director level 1 to a Director level 2 so I won’t have to change my signature. I was floored that a “promotion” like that came with a 9% raise.

[NAN]

I got totally surprised by a promotion this morning. No title change - went from a Director level 1 to a Director level 2 so I won’t have to change my signature. I was floored that a “promotion” like that came with a 9% raise.

Nice!

[mikey]

Nice, meow

[DigitalGypsy66]

That's a lot of Pop Tarts.

[meow]

That was my first thought as well

[shafnutz05]

There is an Office Manager (yes, a manager) in one of our locations that starts EVERY single email with "so". As in,

"So John is leaving soon and we need a replacement."

"So I followed up with Steve and left a message."

"So I need a job description for an an administrative assistant"

And so on. And that is typically the only sentence in the email. Who the F does that? (no, I did not personally hire her)