What Are You Doing Right Now
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Hello Everyone!
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Going out dancing with the team tomorrow night!
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looks bloody awful where you are Scott.
we've been out of lock down for 1 week. now we're back in it again.
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Waiting at a horribly understaffed Burger King for my dinner.
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Lady just came in to get a burger and asked the manager if he would hire someone that c oh do only work 4 hours a day in the middle of the day.
He told her he has 12 staff of 32 and could she start tomorrow?
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Lady just came in to get a burger and asked the manager if he would hire someone that c oh do only work 4 hours a day in the middle of the day.
He told her he has 12 staff of 32 and could she start tomorrow?
Good for her.
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America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
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Stressing over a work decision where I have no information to make a decision.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Stressing over a work decision where I have no information to make a decision.
And you are stuck with the decision because....?
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Morning all, have a coffee and waiting on my first meeting to start.
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Looking at home network hardware options.
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Listening to Fedora Nest 2021 sessions while working.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
Yeah, in the US right now there are the same amount of job openings as there are unemployed. That's was as of a few months ago.
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
Yeah, in the US right now there are the same amount of job openings as there are unemployed. That's was as of a few months ago.
Sure, but so what? No one wants many of those jobs, likely never did - they pay like shit. The last year has shown many people that they can simply live with less.
Do I think they will stay there? Of course not - they'll be forced back into the crappy pay jobs by their own personal desire to "keep up with the Joneses" -
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
Yeah, in the US right now there are the same amount of job openings as there are unemployed. That's was as of a few months ago.
Sure, but so what? No one wants many of those jobs, likely never did - they pay like shit. The last year has shown many people that they can simply live with less.
Do I think they will stay there? Of course not - they'll be forced back into the crappy pay jobs by their own personal desire to "keep up with the Joneses"Yeah, the US in general has an "overemployed" workforce by global standards. Meaning many people were working dual income households, double jobs, or long hours that would not have if they worked anywhere else. It's just the culture. Everyone works, a lot.
COVID kind of reset the thinking on that and tons of people are realizing that life can be fulfilling without going to work. I don't think this way, but lots of people do. Now, suddenly, a country built around providing jobs just to provide jobs and rewarding companies for essentially making half of the nation's workload be a proxy for welfare is finding that it has to adjust a LOT of thinking if it wants a happily employed workforce at normal employment levels.
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4.5 quake RIGHT on our beach! Heading out to see if the sea remains calm.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sure, but so what?
It also means that if you want a job, a better job, or a higher paying job, you can do that easily.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Stressing over a work decision where I have no information to make a decision.
And you are stuck with the decision because....?
The folk above me are fighting over control of various parts of the IT department. I've been told the teams are being broken up and moved to different areas of the larger business. There will be two IT areas - and I've been asked which I want to go to. But, I've not been told what I will be doing for either. I don't know what the job will entail, the results I need to provide, what I need to perform or the technology I'll be using, who the team are, if I will be managing and leading a team like I do now, none of it.
So, I am being asked to pretty much flip a coin as I know nothing about each role on either side. How can they ask me which I want to take without any data to make that choice. Hence, stressing about it.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Stressing over a work decision where I have no information to make a decision.
And you are stuck with the decision because....?
The folk above me are fighting over control of various parts of the IT department. I've been told the teams are being broken up and moved to different areas of the larger business. There will be two IT areas - and I've been asked which I want to go to. But, I've not been told what I will be doing for either. I don't know what the job will entail, the results I need to provide, what I need to perform or the technology I'll be using, who the team are, if I will be managing and leading a team like I do now, none of it.
So, I am being asked to pretty much flip a coin as I know nothing about each role on either side. How can they ask me which I want to take without any data to make that choice. Hence, stressing about it.
Go to the US, this is the time to go. Huge shortage of workers. People will actually fight over you.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Stressing over a work decision where I have no information to make a decision.
And you are stuck with the decision because....?
The folk above me are fighting over control of various parts of the IT department. I've been told the teams are being broken up and moved to different areas of the larger business. There will be two IT areas - and I've been asked which I want to go to. But, I've not been told what I will be doing for either. I don't know what the job will entail, the results I need to provide, what I need to perform or the technology I'll be using, who the team are, if I will be managing and leading a team like I do now, none of it.
So, I am being asked to pretty much flip a coin as I know nothing about each role on either side. How can they ask me which I want to take without any data to make that choice. Hence, stressing about it.
Go to the US, this is the time to go. Huge shortage of workers. People will actually fight over you.
I'm working for a US company remotely from the UK. I would like to visit the US, but not live. I think I've decided which route to take now though based on one reason. My current boss will be moving to side 1, and he is sometimes like a micromanager, so I'm going to take my chances with side 2, which I know nothing about. Worst case, job hunt.
