Job and General Employment Thread

Postby **mamaemeritus** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:52 am

Yeah right around 30. Think the world revolves around them. Can't see past their own face. No job ownership, want no responsibility. And, my favorite, I did a good job this year, so that means I get a 100% raise and a 5 level promotion, right?

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:05 am

Sounds like your company should just do a better job with their hiring process.

Postby **mamaemeritus** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:08 am

That's the problem - there's no good people out there for what we do. Kind of an issue in our industry. So, we take what we can get hoping we'll find a diamond in the rough.

It's strange because on some things they'll knock it out of park, and other times you feel like they're going to tell you to come to the bathroom to help wipe their bum. It's bizarre.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:03 am

I’ve had difficult people from every generational group. It’s quite balanced that way.

My most difficult person - the one who didn’t get tenure last year and left abruptly (thank God) - was GenX. A 50 year old woman who got upset that we didn’t remember her birthday. Yeah.

I had a Google Meet staff meeting yesterday to discuss reopening procedures, and my one problem child - a Millennial - was up to no good. She actually is an exceptional worker and brings a lot to the table, but is high maintenance. She is always at 80% health (at best) and has an endless list of allergies, maladies, aches, and pains. Yesterday, it was (and usually is) about the HVAC in our building. Will it work correctly when we return?

Just listening to her discourse on the building A/C, I could start feeling a dull tension headache coming on. Something I haven’t felt really since mid-March, coincidentally the last time I spoke with her.

So it goes.

Postby **mamaemeritus** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:06 am

Millenials = high maintenance. That's a good way of putting it.

Postby **MR25** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:43 am

I find the opposite, though I'm not exactly "management", but the older people (non-millenials) are my toughest customers because they refuse to learn new things, so it costs me a bunch of time and effort training, retraining, and returning things.

We've been in this system for 3 years now (moved from Oracle) and it amazes me how many older people, who have been here that entire time, either cannot or refuse to learn the new system.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:55 am

Guy joined a zoom meeting this morning with about 150 people (including directors and VPs) with his camera on while lying in bed. Took him about 10 minutes to put tape over the camer.

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:06 am

I manage people aged 22 to 64. Millennials are by far the easiest - in my experience. By far

This right here. I manage a team of 8, and I've got 3 guys in the mid 30's that are always adaptable, always looking to be efficient, and always working hard.

I have two older guys who are just an absolutely chore to handle.

The one thing I hate about management most, is being promoted to manager, and still having to do your non manager role.

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:07 am

Problem children come from all generations. So do good workers

Postby **shafnutz05** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:44 pm

Guy joined a zoom meeting this morning with about 150 people (including directors and VPs) with his camera on while lying in bed. Took him about 10 minutes to put tape over the camer.

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:02 pm

I'm rolling through my testing of Skype for Business, Webex, and BlueJeans, all with their respective optimization packs, in Citrix. Skype and BlueJeans are very good. Webex? Total dumpster fire.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:07 pm

My wife uses bluejeans. It doesn't make sense to me.

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:42 am

Work from home officially extended through the end of August for us.

Postby **faftorial** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:17 am

Work from home officially extended through the end of August for us.

Ours is now 10/1 and they mentioned something about having "meetings free days."

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:20 am

Work from home officially extended through the end of August for us.
Ours is now 10/1 and they mentioned something about having "meetings free days."

Every day should be meeting free.

Postby **meow** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:11 am

"meetings free days."

Are you hiring? I haave 9.5 hours of meetings scheduled today

Postby **pens9192** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:30 am

My team got split into three sub-teams with each of them having their own "manager" aka lead. So three team leads reporting to overall team manager (this split was her idea). The one chosen for my sub-team is pretty useless. He told us in the beginning this was his first time being a manager and he wouldn't micromanage. Narrator: He is micromanaging now. I remember last year when we lost some people due to them leaving the company (and he wasn't a lead yet) we had a meeting with our department director as he took over the team on an interim basis to discuss how we would handle our duties going forward. This guy actually told the director he would defer to me to triage things when critical incidents happened while he "worked on his projects"...He only had one project and that was on hold. There was a few seconds of awkward silence and then the director said, "During critical incidents, its all hands on deck. No project work"

I don't know what he does now on a daily basis besides micromanage and be the mouthpiece for the overall team manager. Like she is queen and he announces her decisions to us peasants. The overall team manager doesn't interact with us at all, doesn't even attend staff meetings or take part in team chats.

In case you couldn't tell, I work at a Fortune 500.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 2:43 pm

My boss's promotion is official now, so he's two rungs above me with a vacancy in between. He wants me to apply for it and he made sure the announcement included Pittsburgh so I would be eligible. It would be my first time as an actual supervisor, and I would be supervising the team I work on now. I'm not enamored with the idea but it is the next logical step. My hope is that one of the Team Leads, who make the same as that position, also apply and beat me to it so I can just take their position and not have the supervisory responsibilities.

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 2:45 pm

Apply for the job on behalf of that person.

Postby **NTP66** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:46 pm

Found out today that all execs at my work took a 10% pay cut. That was interesting.

Postby **meow** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:54 pm

Ours took 25% and the executives each donated $1 million to a teammate relief fund.

Postby **NTP66** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:56 pm

Wow, that's pretty damn nice.

Postby **grunthy** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:50 pm

My boss's promotion is official now, so he's two rungs above me with a vacancy in between. He wants me to apply for it and he made sure the announcement included Pittsburgh so I would be eligible. It would be my first time as an actual supervisor, and I would be supervising the team I work on now. I'm not enamored with the idea but it is the next logical step. My hope is that one of the Team Leads, who make the same as that position, also apply and beat me to it so I can just take their position and not have the supervisory responsibilities.

Being a supervisor in the government isn’t worth it. Low pay relative to private industry and a **** ton more bureaucracy.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:46 pm

Ours took 25% and the executives each donated $1 million to a teammate relief fund.

That's fantastic. Wow.

Postby **mac5155** » Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:42 am

Our company rolled out a new Auth platform to all our mobile devices this past weekend. Somehow the team that owns the platform didn't realize that 80k users would be logging on this morning so we have about 65k bricks in our personnel hands. And only 65 because the west coast hasn't tried yet. Someone's likely gonna go.