Welcome to our Friday ritual! I want to hear about all the bullshit you had to put up with last week! This week, I’m setting a reminder to make this post again on Friday!
Had the longest truck to unload, followed on my next shift by the smallest truck to unload. This company is fucking WINNING at just-in-time logistics.
Communication still sucks and I might have to beat management over the head with proposals.
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There is no paying work to be had
I just wish I could find work. Lost my last job to bullshit reasons like 8 months ago and I can barely get an interview even though I’m applying all over the place and a bunch of these places are supposedly urgently hiring. If I can’t find work within the next two months my wife and I are fucked and it is massively stressing me out
I’m torn between pretending to know what opsec is + adhering to it and treating this thread like a mini diary but I can’t-not indulge
I’m finally ending a month-long semi unemployment stint that started with me quitting a long term position that exposed me to too many legal risks (via very unsafe work practices I was incentivized to sign for).
Managed to acquire two jobs that will allow me to return to / live in my birth country and finally see my spouse more than a few times a year.
Unfortunately with the two new positions I’m reminded of the donkey and his 3 masters. The first company is unorganized and not very supportive. The second is unpredictable and despite requiring me to travel across the U.S for training this next monday, only shared the arrangements and schedule today- which isn’t a good sign this early on and did not allow me to prepare myself much at all.
Cool thread, wishing everyone here the best
I’ll make sure to delete old threads. I think of mods remove the old ones they eventually get purged from the server. So I can always make sure to ping them too.
Very cool and considerate, thanks
Yesterday someone from the executive office came in to the sales department with a printout of a graphic design that was two variants of a moon and stars with a circle around them. Oh black outline, white fill, black crescent moon and stars, and the other inverted same design.
He asked everyone in my office what first came to mind. I said the first thing I thought of was yin and yang, of course the IT guy said “light mode and dark mode” other answers were similarly innocuous.
He mentioned that someone above him (who could only be the owner) said he thought it might be “problematic”. So I had to satisfy my curiosity and asked why.
The owner said “it looks Islamic”. Said owner is in the Epstein files.
For anyone curious as of the time of me asking, 21 of us answered anything but “looks Islamic”.
My boss literally did a
moment lmao.Porky looking at the moon every 28 days like
Mohammed rises! The waning crescent is here! And I haven’t finished my spirit healing!
Typical - lots to do but could be worse! Almost a couple months into a new job, and so far it ticks many of the boxes for being an “employee owned” engineering firm that actually feels “employee owned” - flat structure, seems democratic, no utilization/billable % tracking. They seem to retain interns too post-graduation, meaning they’re not viewed as disposable, which is a green flag. It’s by far the least alienated from my work I’ve felt in my career outside of construction, which is an incredibly low bar but what are you gonna do. Anyway, I want to use it as an opportunity to organize within the profession - like as an example of what can be done to counter corporate/vc engineering (suck it stantec/jacobs/aecom/etc)
Also I intercepted too many nibling coughs-to-the-face last weekend, and am sick as well :/
clocks out hogs out it’s time for chapo dot chat
week of failing to wrangle assholes that wont reply to emails, assholes getting pissed for no reason, and heaps of assholes dropping in the 11th hour to shit on what’s already planned and being implemented. oh and management fucking lying to everybody!
I got sick Wednesday into Thursday and was out today too. Otherwise a dull week!
Same familia tell you what though I am fucked up. Haven’t been this sick in a while. Some sort of GI thing.
Usually I bounce back in 2 days tops but going on 4 days, I haven’t been this sick since I had covid
That sucks comrade! Hopefully it starts winding down soon.
me too, it was great. didn’t have to answer a single phone or get yelled at by a single boomer treatlerite.
Im on a smoke break, finally got one after 4 hours of non stop dinner rush. I feel tired and nauseously hungry and still need to finish service and do clean up. The dishwasher tonight is the chef’s wife so we wont have a dishwasher while closing
Manager told us this week that client numbers will go up for our team because we have been present so much and are doing well. Other teams with more sick leaves who have not done so well now get to move some of their clients to us so we too can start doing poorly. Great.
Ah yes, the classic managerial method of punishing the successful.
Working a little sneaky off the books work this week being reminded how much tax gets taken off normally
My pretax income is close to $90k, after tax and health insurance it’s closer to $50k, after rent it’s about $30k
Groceries alone cost my family about $1500/mo minimum (we usually eat one meal a day) so real expendable income is closer to $12k at the end of the year.
I also have one of the highest paying jobs in my area …
sounds pretty similar to my situationIs say that situation is similar to about 60% of Americans. With 49% having it even worse and 1% having 100x what we have
I was on vacation this week. I do not feel rejuvenated and will not be any more prepared to work on Monday than I was a week ago.
I’ll join this next Friday since this is my last Friday of freedom as i just accepted a new position in a new hell.
Welcome to the new hell, same as the old hell!
