elflaco2 wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 3:38 pm
how's your monday?
we delivered the news earlier today that we are exiting this one business line.. 40 of my team members are affected.. we'll give them 30 day notice sometime later.. first wave to go in March, last wave in June.
i've spent the last four hours having one on one conversations with team members since the call ended.. crappy start to the year.
I read this at 6:30, right before my surprise 6:45 call that I assumed was about another round of layoffs. Our lawyer doesn’t want pay outside counsel to do the adverse impact analysis, so he wants me to figure it out. Anyone care to teach me how to do standard deviations?
My company sucks. 500 laid off before I joined, and they hired me in part to deal with the lawsuits stemming from that. 3 rounds since I joined 6 months ago. And tonight I learned we are making it a monthly thing moving forward. WTF? Granted a lot of the job elimination is way overdo. Merger 3 years ago, and they never eliminated duplicative positions. And most of the layoffs are R&D, due to cancelling projects that didn’t pan out or eliminating product lines that aren’t profitable. Either way, not fun.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
I'd say several people here could help with your math. But you'd likely have to learn with fake data and then apply it to the confidential internal data and then hope you were right!
I'll do this for a small consulting fee in the range of $100,000-$150,000.
One milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard and in the darkness bind them.
monday sucked, tuesday was better
back home wednesday
working to place as many of my team in other roles, good news is no one is out right away-- most will be here through mid april, some through end of june.
these situations reveal and/or confirm character.. saw some incredibly gracious actions by some folks.. and some not so much. people are good. and they suck too.
elflaco2 wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:51 pm
monday sucked, tuesday was better
back home wednesday
working to place as many of my team in other roles, good news is no one is out right away-- most will be here through mid april, some through end of june.
these situations reveal and/or confirm character.. saw some incredibly gracious actions by some folks.. and some not so much. people are good. and they suck too.
That sounds so rough, flaco.
"He swore fluently, obscenely, and without repeating himself for just over a minute."
Mick Herron, "Down Cemetery Road"
I got a calendar invitation on Friday for a meeting in March. In Toronto. Later, I got an email vaguely describing the event with some notes from a planning meeting I wasn't in. I emailed the guy asking for clarity on whether he was expecting me in Toronto or am I Zooming in. Nope, he expects me there. He never asked. I've never gotten an email or Slack message from this guy before.
I mean, I'll go, and if he'd have asked, I'd have said yes, but it's super weird and unprofessional to book someone for travel - international travel - without asking them. And it's not like it's something I normally do in this job. In fact, I've never traveled in this job for anything other than internal planning meetings.
Shirley wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:00 am
I got a calendar invitation on Friday for a meeting in March. In Toronto. Later, I got an email vaguely describing the event with some notes from a planning meeting I wasn't in. I emailed the guy asking for clarity on whether he was expecting me in Toronto or am I Zooming in. Nope, he expects me there. He never asked. I've never gotten an email or Slack message from this guy before.
I mean, I'll go, and if he'd have asked, I'd have said yes, but it's super weird and unprofessional to book someone for travel - international travel - without asking them. And it's not like it's something I normally do in this job. In fact, I've never traveled in this job for anything other than internal planning meetings.
I assume the guy who did this is senior enough to get away with dictating to you like this? Seems like some real bullshit.
Johnnie wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 1:10 pm
My previous job had the expectation of sudden international travel. It's annoying.
In the military are you required to have a passport or do they provide another id? I am thinking less for hey get on the C-140 we are sending you to base.
Johnnie wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 1:10 pm
My previous job had the expectation of sudden international travel. It's annoying.
In the military are you required to have a passport or do they provide another id? I am thinking less for hey get on the C-140 we are sending you to base.
Depends upon the Reporting Instructions for the country you're traveling to that are partially derived from the Pentagon's Foreign Clearance Guide.
Is it a basic ass 6 month deployment to Al Udeid, Qatar? Military ID card and orders suffice. Is it a 6 month deployment to a more austere location? Probably will need a passport. Hell, do you already have a brown official passport, but are traveling to Israel? Gotta get an exemption for a 2nd brown official passport.
Also, if you're not part of a unit with inherent airlift (c-130, c-5, c-17), you'll more than likely deploy via a contracted 777 or 767 through, typically, Baltimore or Norfolk NAS.
mister d wrote:Couldn't have pegged me better.
EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
Shirley wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:00 am
I got a calendar invitation on Friday for a meeting in March. In Toronto. Later, I got an email vaguely describing the event with some notes from a planning meeting I wasn't in. I emailed the guy asking for clarity on whether he was expecting me in Toronto or am I Zooming in. Nope, he expects me there. He never asked. I've never gotten an email or Slack message from this guy before.
I mean, I'll go, and if he'd have asked, I'd have said yes, but it's super weird and unprofessional to book someone for travel - international travel - without asking them. And it's not like it's something I normally do in this job. In fact, I've never traveled in this job for anything other than internal planning meetings.
I assume the guy who did this is senior enough to get away with dictating to you like this? Seems like some real bullshit.
mister d wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:57 am
Gonna be weird if you show up in Toronto and they’re expecting the guy who was in the meeting and has a really similar name.
more than once we've mistakenly had the wrong person (same name) on calls. last time was a guy out in the netherlands.. he actually joined the call curious as to why we wanted to talk w him..
hilarious.
Johnnie wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 1:10 pm
My previous job had the expectation of sudden international travel. It's annoying.
In the military are you required to have a passport or do they provide another id? I am thinking less for hey get on the C-140 we are sending you to base.
Depends upon the Reporting Instructions for the country you're traveling to that are partially derived from the Pentagon's Foreign Clearance Guide.
Is it a basic ass 6 month deployment to Al Udeid, Qatar? Military ID card and orders suffice. Is it a 6 month deployment to a more austere location? Probably will need a passport. Hell, do you already have a brown official passport, but are traveling to Israel? Gotta get an exemption for a 2nd brown official passport.
Also, if you're not part of a unit with inherent airlift (c-130, c-5, c-17), you'll more than likely deploy via a contracted 777 or 767 through, typically, Baltimore or Norfolk NAS.
I guess my question is when you get through Basic or upon enlisting does the process have you apply for your brown passport? Or is that hey dummy you should go get this because you will need it and routinely you get members of the armed forces scrambling like families before spring break when they realize their passports are expired.
Oh, I see. The answer: nope. Honestly, until you need an official passport you won't have to get an official passport.
I didn't get a brown passport until I was in for probably 7 or so years. I was supposed to go on this really cool exercise in Egypt so I went through the whole process only for the trip to cancel 3 days before I was supposed to leave.
(And I got my personal (blue) passport maybe the following year because eventually I was going to need it.)
mister d wrote:Couldn't have pegged me better.
EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:44 am
Not sure why, but Dave's post sparked this connection.
That's a throwback...Larson used to do a podcast with Ryan Sickler called "The Crabfeast", and they did a show here years ago. Larson started to do the Wrong Number bit, and was getting no reaction because most of the crowd had seen him do it on Conan, so he had to bail out on it. It was interesting to watch him change gears and come up with something else on the fly like that.
Yeah, I started up with the Crab Feast from the very beginning, when it was Sickler and Matt Fulcheron for a few episodes.
I don't think any podcast has ever made me laugh that hard, that consistently. The guests would come in loaded for bear and then one of the two hosts inevitably had a story that would relate and the escalating comedy was incredible.
Sad when they hung it up, but they were done. Particularly, Jay was done.
You can lead a horse to fish, but you can't fish out a horse.
Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 12:17 pmYeah, I started up with the Crab Feast from the very beginning, when it was Sickler and Matt Fulcheron for a few episodes.
I don't think any podcast has ever made me laugh that hard, that consistently. The guests would come in loaded for bear and then one of the two hosts inevitably had a story that would relate and the escalating comedy was incredible.
Sad when they hung it up, but they were done. Particularly, Jay was done.
Jay was recently the guest on Sickler's current podcast, "The HoneyDew".
“The running, the jumping... a celebration of life.”
When I started, they gave me an "onboarding buddy," basically an employee in the department who started about a year earlier who I could go to with help navigating the company and asking questions. She is fantastic, and since I have yet to have a substantive meeting with any of the 4 people I've officially reported to since starting this job, she was incredibly valuable. 3 months into my tenure, she went on maternity leave and is scheduled to return shortly. I just got a call from her manager saying they don't have a need for her position based on the department reorg implemented a month ago. They want me to justify offering her a lower position with a $25k paycut and 50% reduction in her bonus eligibility. Not to mention, she is going to have to report to a manager I know she hates and fears. We had a standing weekly 1 on 1 until she went on leave, and I'm just picturing the conversation when she bitches to me about this.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
There's a joke that's more than a decade old at my company about how I once worked more than half a day on a holiday because I was one of the few remote workers at the time and was unaware we had off. I 100% would have done it again this Monday if someone didn't remind me they reinstituted MLK Day from a float to a full a few years ago.
A_B wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:54 pmand henceforth I imagine I’ll be Old …we…t spot AB.
mister d wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:13 pm
There's a joke that's more than a decade old at my company about how I once worked more than half a day on a holiday because I was one of the few remote workers at the time and was unaware we had off. I 100% would have done it again this Monday if someone didn't remind me they reinstituted MLK Day from a float to a full a few years ago.
I have a standing Monday meeting with a paralegal in our compliance department. We emailed a few times in the morning, and I thought about reminding her we had a holiday and I wasn't joining the regularly scheduled Zoom that afternoon. This morning I saw a series of Teams messages asking if I was joining, and then rescheduling. I panicked for a minute and had to double check our holiday calendar. She told me today that after I wasn't at the meeting, she checked the schedule. She just assumed we didn't get MLK Day off for some reason.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
mister d wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:13 pm
There's a joke that's more than a decade old at my company about how I once worked more than half a day on a holiday because I was one of the few remote workers at the time and was unaware we had off. I 100% would have done it again this Monday if someone didn't remind me they reinstituted MLK Day from a float to a full a few years ago.
I almost did the same thing when I was living in Australia (I mean...who has a day off for a fucking horse race?). Afterwards my co-workers were sure to tell me when some wacky Aussie was coming up (like the Queen's Birthday or Easter Monday).
mister d wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:13 pm
There's a joke that's more than a decade old at my company about how I once worked more than half a day on a holiday because I was one of the few remote workers at the time and was unaware we had off. I 100% would have done it again this Monday if someone didn't remind me they reinstituted MLK Day from a float to a full a few years ago.
our leadership team booked an offsite in dallas starting this past monday... we realized last week it was a holiday (we use to bounce back and forth with pres day, forgot they made it permanent a year or two ago)-- we chose to keep it... hard to get our calendars lined up again.
arrrived mid day, met for four hours at one of our usual restaurants there.. team calibrations with a side of apps and flowing alcohol.
tons of food and drinks, great sessions last two days. back home early this morning.
will just pick up an extra day i'm likely to leave on the table (i've yet to take my full balance of pto/sick/etc in my 11 yrs here.. not proud)
mister d wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:13 pm
There's a joke that's more than a decade old at my company about how I once worked more than half a day on a holiday because I was one of the few remote workers at the time and was unaware we had off. I 100% would have done it again this Monday if someone didn't remind me they reinstituted MLK Day from a float to a full a few years ago.
our leadership team booked an offsite in dallas starting this past monday... we realized last week it was a holiday (we use to bounce back and forth with pres day, forgot they made it permanent a year or two ago)-- we chose to keep it... hard to get our calendars lined up again.
arrrived mid day, met for four hours at one of our usual restaurants there.. team calibrations with a side of apps and flowing alcohol.
tons of food and drinks, great sessions last two days. back home early this morning.
will just pick up an extra day i'm likely to leave on the table (i've yet to take my full balance of pto/sick/etc in my 11 yrs here.. not proud)
We had our sales kickoff in Atlanta this week and they told everyone to fly in Tuesday morning instead of Monday night to save on hotel rooms. And now no one from Houston is at the sales kickoff.
I was the Intern Coordinator at a think tank (not my actual job, just something I volunteered to do), and I was relatively new there. New Year's rolls around, and this place shuts down between Christmas and New Year's. I just assumed we had New Year's Day off. I got a call from one of the interns, who said she was getting asked by others (about 7 or 8, if memory serves) if we had the day off. "Of course!" I said confidently.
We did not. I got yelled at. I said they were ridiculous for not having that as a holiday, and the CEO was taken aback.
They changed the policy to include that day going forward.
You can lead a horse to fish, but you can't fish out a horse.
Anyone got experience doing hiring these days? I have a couple of questions I would just like to bounce off someone but need a bit to discretion at the moment. Any hiring experience at all might help answer my question, but was just thinking about today's market and theres at least one specific thing that might need more recent experience.
You can answer here, send me a PM or a text if you're one of the people who has that. won't take much time at all I don't think.
eta: I'm not angling for a job here, just looking for someone with some experience.
One milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard and in the darkness bind them.
Sometimes, I forget when I get to work and stop by the kitchen to put my lunch in the fridge that I could see another Swamper! Good to see you for a second, el flaco!
Shirley wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:00 am
I got a calendar invitation on Friday for a meeting in March. In Toronto. Later, I got an email vaguely describing the event with some notes from a planning meeting I wasn't in. I emailed the guy asking for clarity on whether he was expecting me in Toronto or am I Zooming in. Nope, he expects me there. He never asked. I've never gotten an email or Slack message from this guy before.
I mean, I'll go, and if he'd have asked, I'd have said yes, but it's super weird and unprofessional to book someone for travel - international travel - without asking them. And it's not like it's something I normally do in this job. In fact, I've never traveled in this job for anything other than internal planning meetings.
Making this trip even more awkward, I found out early last week that the sales guy who was supposed to be traveling with me (I'll present and he'll talk to prospects) was gonna be let go on Friday (yesterday). The trip is in just a few days. The thing is, I knew, but he didn't know. Even more awkward, he sent me a note asking if I'd do another meeting with him with some customer next week. I said yes, but of course I knew that he wouldn't still be around.
So, now I'm going to Toronto by myself because they don't have time to get a different sales monkey up there with me.
