People don't quit jobs, they quit managers. Shitty pay is the fault of management, shitty conditions are also the fault of management. Place the blame where it rightly belongs
And blaming the president for inflation
A new day is dawning
Sorry for this little rant but I had to let others know that you're worth it and learn from my experience. About 2 weeks ago I started a full-time internship for 20 weeks at a pretty cool startup. Unfortunately my school was a bit slow with handing me the contract for me and the company to fill in. Therefore I already started unofficially, but would make it official once the contract was signed. At the job interview I made clear that I earned about 350 euro's a month which I thought was a fair compensation (still not enough, but that's an entire different discussion). When mentioned it seems he agreed, and that was the last thing we talked about the compensation. Until today. Today my school caught up with me, gave the contract for us to fill in and hand it in back to my university so they could…
The title is pretty clear. A critical path team has had hilariously high turnover. 3 – 6 months per person tops, except for me, I chime in at 18 months. When I say critical path, I mean the company WILL fail. Not immediately, but clients will not renew because we will look completely incompetent and fail to meet our contractual obligations. With such high turnover, the knowledge of how these systems work is already fading in to the history books, lost forever. They have a very small window of opportunity to turn it around before it is too late. The cost? A million… probably less… $750k-ish a year to sprinkle around to turn 5 digit salaries in to strong 6 figure salaries, or double digit bill rates to triple for consultants. They are delusional. They are ignoring what is happening right before their eyes. They can fix it simply by…
CCTV in the workplace
Couple weeks ago we had new CCTV cameras installed in our office. There is already cameras at the exits of the building, and 2 in the warehouse area, which I think is fairly common and reasonable, for security/insurance purposes. Now we have 9 new cameras installed, all at work stations or inside an office, watching people, not stock or products. We each received a memo saying that the new cameras were for protection of the stock, since the warehouse is becoming busier and more full of products, and such holds more value. This is a pitiful excuse anyway since cameras already all the entrances/exits and the warehouse area, but to claim this while a camera now stares at me all day in an office, with no stock being held at all is just lying. For the first week or two nothing happened besides a few comments about “big brother” and…
When employers post any job on LinkedIn they have to mark which salary range it is in, mark it hidden from public, and then LinkedIn knows where to place it when we search for a job. It's infor the search engine criteria needs to be posted. There are many websites out there at the moment that you can use to find such hidden criteria. I found websites like this for real estate, to find out what a house is listed for if they have only put up price by negotiation, and for my local job listings search site, but not for LinkedIn. Basically the data I'm looking for would not need to be scraped or stolen from the back end of LinkedIn, it is available if you have the time to toggle your search results by dollar to find out the range for job postings in. I'm just hoping that…