Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be
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@DustinB3403 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@Dashrender said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
That is a bride - a classic bride.
Always a Bride never a Bribe.
Doh.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@Dashrender said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@dyasny said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
High taxes don't really solve any of those problems, but can make a lot of them worse. High taxes put a bigger burden on the economy making it less competitive and makes labour more expensive.
Well, the people managing that economy aren't stupid, I'm sure they are doing what they can, in the given conditions. Still, it's nowhere near the conditions the US or any EU country is in. I'd change the political system, to eliminate the abuse first, move to a two party system, instead of the current coalition based insanity, which is so easy to abuse
Scott would start by declaring himself dictator.
I did that long ago, you plebes just don't listen.
I, sir, am no plebe. Likely a pube though.
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@dyasny said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@IRJ said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@dyasny said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@coliver said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@dyasny ...the two party system makes everything you're saying worse.
No, because a two party system makes such abuse impossible. There are other problems, but I'll take those over being forced to feed a small group of people for free, just because they were well enough organized to put a party together and force it down everyone else's throats.
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Two party systems only makes people choose a side. The problem is the both sides are extremely corrupt and because of collectivism people are unwilling to think for themselves. This problems is on both sides. People are defending Trump or Obama just because he his on their side or vice versa. There is already an opinion formed that I am a Democrat/Repubican therefore my party is always right and the other guys are completely wrong.
Intelligent people are able to look at things by issue not by party or politician. Unfortunately 90% of people are completely tied up in this party affliation bullshit. It's easy to sell because you can always make the other side look stupid since they both do stupid things. Then people from each party will make themselves feel better from mocking the other party. When in essence they are the ones being fooled since they never look at issues from a neutral or opposite point of view.
Collectivism is a bitch and it makes people dumber than rocks!
so you are suggesting to split all those people into even smaller chunks, and try to form a government out of a collection of those tiny chunks. If you have 10 parties instead of 2 (with the size of the US, it'll be more like 100 parties really), each pulling in it's own direction, how will a government be able to even form, not to mention actually do anything?
That is how Japan functions. They have two large parties. But neither is large enough to do anything by itself. They have to make agreements with similar smaller parties to get anything done.
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@scottalanmiller I think @guyinpv should give that one a shot.
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That's the way to do it!
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
No time or date on it, instructions unclear, demand he continue to work without a paycheck thinking he was termed 6 years ago.
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@guyinpv any news on the job after another week there? Decided that it is just time to go? Planning to stick it out for a while?
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@DustinB3403 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
And all I wanted to do was open up a conversation so they could start looking for a replacement. I wasn't expecting a circus.What were you realistically expecting?
To begin a detailed, thought-out, plan of finding a competent replacement. Start looking at quality job boards, map out job requirements, etc. Be reasonable, efficient, mindful.
Instead they panicked that I was going to walk out and leave in a couple days. They rushed to find anybody with basic knowledge of a computer from the local staffing agency and threw them onto my lap with little consideration. Now I'm trying to train a person with no experience and fairly rudimentary knowledge. Plus they dumped all these demands for an encyclopedia worth of how-tos, procedures, vendor notes, troubleshooting guides, etc.
It's funny but also sad. One day the new person was there and I was at home, sick or something. A shared network connection in Windows got disconnected which made an app pop up an error. New person tried to troubleshoot the app, perhaps not knowing the shared network drive existed. So boss asks if I've already written a specific procedure for this specific app when having this specific error caused by this specific problem.
I'm just like, no, I can't write a procedure detailing every conceivable error that can happen on every one of 50+ vendors we deal with, lol.
The IT person is supposed to know how to troubleshoot issues, not just read from a procedure book encyclopedia written by the previous IT person!
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@guyinpv still there?
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@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@DustinB3403 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
And all I wanted to do was open up a conversation so they could start looking for a replacement. I wasn't expecting a circus.What were you realistically expecting?
To begin a detailed, thought-out, plan of finding a competent replacement. Start looking at quality job boards, map out job requirements, etc. Be reasonable, efficient, mindful.
Instead they panicked that I was going to walk out and leave in a couple days. They rushed to find anybody with basic knowledge of a computer from the local staffing agency and threw them onto my lap with little consideration. Now I'm trying to train a person with no experience and fairly rudimentary knowledge. Plus they dumped all these demands for an encyclopedia worth of how-tos, procedures, vendor notes, troubleshooting guides, etc.
It's funny but also sad. One day the new person was there and I was at home, sick or something. A shared network connection in Windows got disconnected which made an app pop up an error. New person tried to troubleshoot the app, perhaps not knowing the shared network drive existed. So boss asks if I've already written a specific procedure for this specific app when having this specific error caused by this specific problem.
I'm just like, no, I can't write a procedure detailing every conceivable error that can happen on every one of 50+ vendors we deal with, lol.
The IT person is supposed to know how to troubleshoot issues, not just read from a procedure book encyclopedia written by the previous IT person!
Man what a pain! I needed to do this for my previous employer and it was hard to deal with it. Ended up creating a 60 page manual for staff and about the same for the IT Admin person taking over me.
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@dbeato said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@DustinB3403 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
And all I wanted to do was open up a conversation so they could start looking for a replacement. I wasn't expecting a circus.What were you realistically expecting?
To begin a detailed, thought-out, plan of finding a competent replacement. Start looking at quality job boards, map out job requirements, etc. Be reasonable, efficient, mindful.
Instead they panicked that I was going to walk out and leave in a couple days. They rushed to find anybody with basic knowledge of a computer from the local staffing agency and threw them onto my lap with little consideration. Now I'm trying to train a person with no experience and fairly rudimentary knowledge. Plus they dumped all these demands for an encyclopedia worth of how-tos, procedures, vendor notes, troubleshooting guides, etc.
It's funny but also sad. One day the new person was there and I was at home, sick or something. A shared network connection in Windows got disconnected which made an app pop up an error. New person tried to troubleshoot the app, perhaps not knowing the shared network drive existed. So boss asks if I've already written a specific procedure for this specific app when having this specific error caused by this specific problem.
I'm just like, no, I can't write a procedure detailing every conceivable error that can happen on every one of 50+ vendors we deal with, lol.
The IT person is supposed to know how to troubleshoot issues, not just read from a procedure book encyclopedia written by the previous IT person!
Man what a pain! I needed to do this for my previous employer and it was hard to deal with it. Ended up creating a 60 page manual for staff and about the same for the IT Admin person taking over me.
Does stuff like that happens when it’s a one person IT position?
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
That's a state level law and I'm pretty sure nowhere in the US makes you give notice. If they do, it's an extreme exception.
Doctors have this. xxx number of days, to make sure notes on patients are passed over. In reality this isn't really a big deal with modern EMR's, and in most practices.
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@guyinpv Time to give that notice and go. zero reason to stay now, you've been replaced.
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@StorageNinja said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
That's a state level law and I'm pretty sure nowhere in the US makes you give notice. If they do, it's an extreme exception.
Doctors have this. xxx number of days, to make sure notes on patients are passed over. In reality this isn't really a big deal with modern EMR's, and in most practices.
How do they handle if doctors get sick or can't come in?
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@black3dynamite said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@dbeato said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@DustinB3403 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
And all I wanted to do was open up a conversation so they could start looking for a replacement. I wasn't expecting a circus.What were you realistically expecting?
To begin a detailed, thought-out, plan of finding a competent replacement. Start looking at quality job boards, map out job requirements, etc. Be reasonable, efficient, mindful.
Instead they panicked that I was going to walk out and leave in a couple days. They rushed to find anybody with basic knowledge of a computer from the local staffing agency and threw them onto my lap with little consideration. Now I'm trying to train a person with no experience and fairly rudimentary knowledge. Plus they dumped all these demands for an encyclopedia worth of how-tos, procedures, vendor notes, troubleshooting guides, etc.
It's funny but also sad. One day the new person was there and I was at home, sick or something. A shared network connection in Windows got disconnected which made an app pop up an error. New person tried to troubleshoot the app, perhaps not knowing the shared network drive existed. So boss asks if I've already written a specific procedure for this specific app when having this specific error caused by this specific problem.
I'm just like, no, I can't write a procedure detailing every conceivable error that can happen on every one of 50+ vendors we deal with, lol.
The IT person is supposed to know how to troubleshoot issues, not just read from a procedure book encyclopedia written by the previous IT person!
Man what a pain! I needed to do this for my previous employer and it was hard to deal with it. Ended up creating a 60 page manual for staff and about the same for the IT Admin person taking over me.
Does stuff like that happens when it’s a one person IT position?
No, things like this happen when the company is shit.
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@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
Instead they panicked that I was going to walk out and leave in a couple days. They rushed to find anybody with basic knowledge of a computer from the local staffing agency and threw them onto my lap with little consideration. Now I'm trying to train a person with no experience and fairly rudimentary knowledge. Plus they dumped all these demands for an encyclopedia worth of how-tos, procedures, vendor notes, troubleshooting guides, etc.
This is kinda hilariously common in SMB land, but did you stop and think that maybe, just maybe they don't know what it costs for the skills they need to hire for? What is the pay rate they a re paying for the job? If you are expecting someone who knows Sysadmin work, Networking, End user support, application troubleshooting, vendor management/bidding etc and they hired at 40K a year then you are going to get this no matter what. When I worked i n consulting many times I saw management want to fire/replace people and I had to get them to stop and realize that when you pay 1/2 the going rate, you get 1/10th the expected outcome. When a tenured employee is leaving for greener pastures that doesn't mean that for the same rate (or even a good bit more) they will get a perfect 100% drop in replacement quickly. You've described management as difficult to work with, and not placing value in IT.
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Why would anyone good WANT to work for that person? (Might be a lot of candidates just nope their way out of the interview).
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Why would that management pay the rate they need to?
I mean my dude, at a certain point you gotta ask yourself why you think this isn't the outcome that's going to happen.
FWIW I've seen people handcuffed to a job and it's done a lot differently.
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Pay more than the going rate for the job and the rest of the market. (Shockingly this is the one thing Netflix does on staff management that no one talks about!).
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Deferred compensation. If I left tomorrow. I would forfeit my bonus for the half, my outstanding RSU's, my unvested ESPP (well I'd get face value, but no gainz). This pile of loot is enough to make me think twice about leaving, demand a signing bonus to offset it (Making me less attractive to future employees trying to pick me up cheap), or at least force me to time my exit for maximum vestment on the way out. I've seen someone find a new job and take 6 months to leave for this reason.
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Perc that are not standard like unlimited vacation, 6 months maternity/paternity etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
How do they handle if doctors get sick or can't come in?
It's like a 30 day transition in theory but I"ve never heard of that being enforced. I suspect that has more to do with niche surgical practices.
Doctors can reach the EMR from home and put in notes. For in patient care whoever is coming off call on the weekend calls whoever is taking over and does a transfer of knowledge over the phone on top of the notes.
It's considered unethical in medicine to just "Dump" someone with an existing condition that you began treatment on without making sure someone else picks them up. Example.... can't set a central line and then as a practice not take it out.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
@Dashrender there's also a value in providing a benefit, employee retention is an important metric which translates to dollars. And a car is so much more than a coffee machine.
Higher pay retains people too, and better I'd argue. I'll take pay over a car any day, in fact, I'd rather not have a car at all.
I have a car (Drive maybe 1800 miles a year on it?). I just use Uber for work (Have platinum status lol) for work. I earn the points and can take calls and get things done on the way to the meeting/airport etc.
The problem with a company car is I'm on the hook for maintaining it on some level more than likely (Unless you have fleet services), There are limits to how I use it (Can my kids ride in it?, Can I take it out of town?), the car might also be a car I don't like to drive (Ford Ranger, with no stereo) or really want.
