sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:07 pm
Sorry, bud. Make it a priority at your next job that they also include west coast business trips.
That would be ideal. Glad I got a final trip in and one to Seattle right before I left. I appreciate all the support, but not down (yet). Actually a little excited about the postings I'm seeing, so maybe not a bad thing in the end? And it's a generous package considering I've only been there a little over a year, and they must be RIFing at least 60 people today.
Really glad I happened to notice our contract with the career outplacement firm was expiring and finished renegotiated a new contract last week.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:39 pm
13 weeks of severance is pretty sweet though. You even have a chance to double dip for a while if you land something soon.
Back in 2002, i got a six week severance package, left on a Friday, started the new job on Monday.
sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:07 pm
Sorry, bud. Make it a priority at your next job that they also include west coast business trips.
That would be ideal. Glad I got a final trip in and one to Seattle right before I left. I appreciate all the support, but not down (yet). Actually a little excited about the postings I'm seeing, so maybe not a bad thing in the end? And it's a generous package considering I've only been there a little over a year, and they must be RIFing at least 60 people today.
Really glad I happened to notice our contract with the career outplacement firm was expiring and finished renegotiated a new contract last week.
It's good to see this is your attitude.
I'd have to fight hard to start looking for work right away with that much severance and paid vacation time.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
So...for about the last 6 months, my main responsibility is handling the escalations that come over to R&D when a customer calls into our CX department and they can't resolve the issue. This mainly entails coordinating between Salesforce and ADO, and running daily triage meetings...one for our older instrument, and one for our newer platform. It's a pain, but things have calmed down to the point where I'm able to change the cadence of triage meetings to twice a week.
Anyways, the issue is this one guy, a developer, about my age, who is currently the only person who is tasked with providing support for the older instrument. It's 100% of his time, and he's not happy about it. And, because I am the PM running the triage, I get to be his sounding board for him to bitch and moan and whine about how the company isn't supporting that platform, how he deserves a raise, how he doesn't think the CX guys know what they are doing, etc.
And its not just on occasion...when I'm in the office, he comes over to my desk at least 3 or 4 times a day to go through all this. Really makes me not want to go into the office at all. And when I'm working from home, he'll hit me on Teams with "Are you coming into the office today? I need to talk to you".
And I've had it....I want to tell him that if he keeps riding my ass like this, OSHA is going to make me install hand rails. I want to tell him "I am not your manager...if you aren't happy, talk to your manager. Or quit"...but I can't/won't do that. Because if he left the company, we'd really be screwed on providing that customer support. And I get it...as a former developer, I would have hated to be stuck doing these reactive calls. And I've tried to get other people freed up to help out so he can work on other things, but I've been shot down. And just now, I got another teams message "Are you coming in today?" and then a meeting invite to talk at 9am.
Sorry...needed to vent...before I go into this meeting with him and tell him to back the fuck off.
has gotten so bad that the guys from the Customer Support have come to me to complain that he is basically being an asshole to them when he's working with them, and being "completely unprofessional" during the triage meetings.
So I just came out of a meeting with his manager about this, and his manager is trying to unruffle the feathers.
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(when i started at this job ~4yrs ago they'd also just hired what turned out to be the worst person i've ever worked with and the only way to cope with her on a daily basis was to put together a list of her bullshit phrases - like this one but the extended remix - and a few of us had a bingo game later in her (only) year where we'd see how many of them we could echo back to her in a single stand-up meeting.)
degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am
A project manager used "project cadance" the other day. Still don't know what it means.
"Cadence" is just another way of saying schedule or frequency.
For example, just a couple of weeks ago I got the ok to change the "cadence" of some triage meetings from 4 days a week to 2 days a week.
That's not how she used it. Cadence is a measurement of iterations that could lead to future actions.
Which means nothing to me.
That's a very weird, outlier way to use cadence. It's typically just saying how often do you want to meet or send out regular communications and the like.
You can lead a horse to fish, but you can't fish out a horse.
shit Syb, I'm real sorry.
