Job and General Employment Thread

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:11 pm

I always took 2-3 weeks between jobs to just relax.

Postby **Beveridge** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:20 pm

Well my old firm made last Friday my last day since I'm going to a competitor. New place wants me to start 10/25. Say your prayers for three weeks of good weather for your boy. This could either be ****ing great or just the most boring stretch of my life.

Break out some Pitt tape.

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:28 pm

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:29 pm

Well my old firm made last Friday my last day since I'm going to a competitor. New place wants me to start 10/25. Say your prayers for three weeks of good weather for your boy. This could either be ****ing great or just the most boring stretch of my life.

This happened to me when I moved to a different record company. The first one was in negotiations to be acquired by a different label, and people who were giving notice were excused from the second week of the period. Because they didn't want me, as a licensing Staff Assistant, to muck it up, you see.

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:18 am

Our CEO (who doesn't take the title CEO, he calls himself "Head Coach") just sent this to the whole company.

Subject: words of wisdom

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means
First attempt in learning

End is not the end; in fact, E.N.D means
Effort never dies

If you get NO as an answer; remember N.O. means
Next Opportunity

Give it all you GOT!

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:19 am

Postby **NAN** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:21 am

I'm ready to run out on the field!

Postby **MR25** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:22 am

That email is wankmotion.gif personified

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:24 am

Give it all you, Good Ol' Testicle...

That "END" one really takes the cake...is that like the tag line for Die Hard 8...?

Postby **meow** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:29 am

Give it 110%. It’s gut check time. Keep your eye on the prize. There is no I in team. Knock it out of the park. Give it all you got.

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:32 am

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:39 am

I'm ready to start working after reading that.

Jk

Postby **meow** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:43 am

Get a job, ya bum

Postby **shmenguin** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:45 am

I’d prefer that to empty platitudes. At least it’s funny.

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:46 am

Postby **Kane** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:51 am

Our CEO (who doesn't take the title CEO, he calls himself "Head Coach") just sent this to the whole company.

Subject: words of wisdom

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means
First attempt in learning

End is not the end; in fact, E.N.D means
Effort never dies

If you get NO as an answer; remember N.O. means
Next Opportunity

Give it all you GOT!

$10 says he spent all morning inventing those acronyms.

Postby **MR25** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:59 am

Honestly sounds more like a "FWD:FWD:RE:FWD:RE:RE: HOW TO MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES! THEY'LL LOVE THE THIRD ONE!" type of deal

Postby **meow** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:59 am

If you don’t forward this to at least seven employees, you’ll have bad luck for 13 years

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 12:26 pm

Does your lab/office have any cast iron skillets laying around that you could use to *pang* that guy's forehead?

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 12:41 pm

They need to remake that poster with this:

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 12:43 pm

He's just an old man, way past the time that he should have retired, and thinking back to the glory days of starting companies. He's great at starting companies and getting them past the 30 or so employee mark, but after that... nah. He's too much. See my previous post for an example.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:12 pm

Well, got the counteroffer response.

They met my salary ask, which I didn't expect (and probably should've asked for more lol).

But there is no faculty housing or housing stipend. Just not something a state agency generally does for "this level of position." If I were a VP or Dean, sure. That's what I expected as well.

They are willing to push the start date out to March 1st. That's very workable, as we would look to move in late May/early June when K-12 school wraps up here.

And absolutely no moving costs are paid for if you are moving in-state. I live 2 hours away; but if I lived 30 minutes over the SC/NC border, they would pay for your move.

So we're crunching numbers and looking at real estate this weekend. Again.

I'm feeling better about 3 months away from my family, rather than 7-8 months. Very doable, but we'll see what the CFO thinks.

One issue is I'm supposed to take 16 furlough days between now and June 30. I don't plan on taking any until I figure if I'm leaving, but I'm wondering if I put in my notice in January, will they make me use a certain number of days before I leave? Or will the fact that I'm off the books completely for the last 3 months of the fiscal year be good enough? I also want to cash out my max allowed vacation days (10), and we're going to Disney/Universal the last week of February. Nice potential segue to a new job...

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:38 pm

Nice DG, things are on the up and up. Just minor ish to figure out now.

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:48 pm

I'm having a hard time with the no-moving-expenses thing. We got moving, storage, and 3 mos of temp housing. All-in, monthly cost was probably close to $8k, plus another $2-3k flat fee for the movers. Twice in 3 years. And we got a mortgage assist when moved to SF (only market in the country where Mrs Tif's company offers this aid for relos), which was honestly the only way we were able get a livable house.

Oh, and 5 years before SF she moved in-house at her company. We had just moved and our home was 1.5 miles outside the radius for 'local', so she qualified for a housing stipend that allowed her to get an apartment across the street from the office where she lived Mon-Thurs. That lasted 6 months or so before we got a new house that made her commute manageable, but took mine from 40 minutes to 90 minutes, and so I got a new job. lol

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:54 pm

Yeah, this is a state (of SC) agency. They are cheap. We'll probably use a Two men and a Truck type service, which cost us around $2000 last time we moved. Probably be a bit more than that now, but it is what it is. I do have two teenagers now, maybe go for the U-haul route.