Job and General Employment Thread

[nocera]

There has been a lot of talk lately of under-performing on revenue, reforecasting, blahblahblah... Basically all the usual talk that happens before sweeping changes are made to an organization. At this point I'm just hoping to get through the summer before anything happens.

[count2infinity]

I hate when people try to make their mistake an everyone else problem.

Our sales have been below projections so far this year. Lots of reasons for it, but it comes and goes. Sometimes we ride high, sometimes we just need to ride out the low times and get through. April was looking really healthy and it appeared we were going to exceed projections for the first time in a long time. Our sales manager was running around celebrating with everyone about being above projections, telling everyone we'd hit our numbers and her and her team's hard work has been paying off (not true, it's just the way our industry cycles), woo woo rah rah stuff.

Well, we had a hiccup on our manufacturing floor late last week that put our whole process about a half day behind. That half day of missed shipments carried over to May instead of April and we came in at 0.5% below projections for the month.

Rather than "whoops, shouldn't count my chickens before they hatch", her response was an hour long meeting this morning for the manufacturing manager to walk the business team through what happened... which was really summed up as "sh*t happens sometimes."

She went off at one point in the meeting about how she looks like an idiot now to the whole company because she was telling everyone about how we were going to beat projections, and my manager said "well... maybe don't do that next time."

[nocera]

There has been a lot of talk lately of under-performing on revenue, reforecasting, blahblahblah... Basically all the usual talk that happens before sweeping changes are made to an organization. At this point I'm just hoping to get through the summer before anything happens.

Aaaand we just got an invite for a half hour "organizational update" tomorrow at 9:30.

[mikey]

Ooooh, jeeeeeeezzzzussss...good luck, sir.

[Rylan]

I feel like work has been the most stressful this past year than any point in my professional career. And I have been around 2 different companies shutting down....

[skullman80]

There has been a lot of talk lately of under-performing on revenue, reforecasting, blahblahblah... Basically all the usual talk that happens before sweeping changes are made to an organization. At this point I'm just hoping to get through the summer before anything happens.

Aaaand we just got an invite for a half hour "organizational update" tomorrow at 9:30.

Ugh. Sorry man. Hope it turns out not to be what it probably is.

[Dickie Dunn]

There has been a lot of talk lately of under-performing on revenue, reforecasting, blahblahblah... Basically all the usual talk that happens before sweeping changes are made to an organization. At this point I'm just hoping to get through the summer before anything happens.

Aaaand we just got an invite for a half hour "organizational update" tomorrow at 9:30.

That sucks man. Hope it all turns out okay. Have the struggles been legitimate or has it been like my shitshow where they profit $1B in the quarter but because they projected $1.1B now we're broke.

[meow]

just decline the invite and hide. they can’t lay you off if they can’t find you.

[Pavel Bure]

There has been a lot of talk lately of under-performing on revenue, reforecasting, blahblahblah... Basically all the usual talk that happens before sweeping changes are made to an organization. At this point I'm just hoping to get through the summer before anything happens.

Aaaand we just got an invite for a half hour "organizational update" tomorrow at 9:30.

That sucks man. Hope it all turns out okay. Have the struggles been legitimate or has it been like my shitshow where they profit $1B in the quarter but because they projected $1.1B now we're broke.

That’s the thing that really confuses me. Oh we had one of our best years ever but fell short of projections. Clearly the answer is to lay people off. Line can’t always go up, it’s absolutely crushing to the work force but we’re all just numb to it.

[nocera]

Thanks fellas. Knowing how this company works, it’ll end up being a good announcement and they got everybody freaked out for no reason. As for the struggles, covid took a toll on the numbers but we’ve been slowly crawling back to pre-2020 revenue. We’ve improved every year and as far as I can tell we’re on track to out perform 2023. Of course they budgeted way more revenue than we realistically could achieve so now the forecast looks rough despite continuing to improve year over year since 2020.

[faftorial]

And it's never the executives (the ones who came up with those projections) who go when those numbers aren't met, it's the front line workers.

[Morkle]

And it's never the executives (the ones who came up with those projections) who go when those numbers aren't met, it's the front line workers.

Can’t fire the most expensive people. Rearrange the lower levels and make them all work more.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I know it might not be realistic but LinkedIn is one of those websites I’m really hoping I never have to log into again

[nocera]

Well, that was unexpected. Not a re-org. The CEO was fired after a lengthy investigation that revealed "behaviors and actions inconsistent with our code of conduct and values." Sounds like he was harassing employees and several came forward. Obviously they didn't get into what exactly happened but I'm sure the rumors will be floating around soon.

When the meeting opened with the chief HR officer, head of legal, and the head of the board, I thought we were done for.

[skullman80]

Oh wow ...guess that is a good thing and a bad thing all at once. Glad you still have a job though.

[nocera]

Same. Still probably not a bad idea to update the old resume.

[tifosi77]

Yikes. It sucks that something like that can be considered a 'relief', but woof.

[shafnutz05]

Same. Still probably not a bad idea to update the old resume.

I know we've been dunking on LinkedIn (with good reason) but I would do the same there.

[Joegap]

Boss just sent a PowerPoint back and told me to be more creative and innovative with it... Guess she wants some word art and sick transitions.. time to polish up the resume

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

did you try writing entire paragraphs in your presentation? that’s a big thing people want to do when watching a presentation is read an essay

[MR25]

Boss just sent a PowerPoint back and told me to be more creative and innovative with it... Guess she wants some word art and sick transitions.. time to polish up the resume

Don't forget to animate the text boxes too. Manual pathing is optimal.

[NTP66]

Boss just sent a PowerPoint back and told me to be more creative and innovative with it... Guess she wants some word art and sick transitions.. time to polish up the resume

At my last place, our CTSO did the same to me. I **** you not, all I did was add fades between slides and text transition effects. She loved the revised presentation.

She was a complete moron.

[the wicked child]

For some reason this is giving me flashbacks to The Wire...

"Make sure it has lots of dots. Deputy loves dots".

[NTP66]

Major really was an dadhole.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

whats frightening is that’s allegedly an adult who is in charge of “coaching” other professionals. The feedback of making a presentation more “creative and innovative” is feedback I’d expect to hear from a 7th graders

no critical thought applied whatsoever