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- honkeybot5k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+301Hell Yes. I worked at a company that spent 100,000 on a couple of cheese dick motivation and efficiency coaches. They dreamed up all sorts of slogans and power point presentations about feeling good about the company. A flurry of e-mails followed for the next several months as did many trees worth of paperwork containing checklists of points to remember to adhere to the company's "Exciting New Vision". Everyone hated it and resented the implication that the hard work they had been doing to build up the company already was now, somehow, incorrect. What would have worked better? Taking the 100,000, buying everyone pizza and beer on Friday, and announcing there would be a little something extra on this paycheck for all their hard work, with a possibility of future bonuses based on the performance of the company.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+188Further proof that everyone who works in that sort of environment could learn a lot from watching 'Office Space'.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -27/+211So this chick just turns around one day during her commute, goes home, hides under the covers and refuses to answer her employer's phone calls when they want to know where she is? I'm sorry but that is a *****, unprofessional, *childish* way to quit a job.
She spends half the article bitching about how employers often treat employees like children, but she also makes it obvious that she merited such treatment. - othersomethings, on 10/12/2007, -9/+113Re: reason # 2:
Companies don't make it taboo to steal...stealing makes it taboo to steal.
They aren't stealing 40 hours from your week, you ARE actually getting something in return for that, even if it feels like robbery. I know that's a petty point, and I'm half sure it's bait, but just so a 16 year old dimwit on here doesn't change his personal policies at his workplace of choice...
Yeah. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+89I used to work for a certain multinational acronym, doing efficiencies (remember the Bobs from Office Space? That was me. Yes, I hated myself).
I knew I was in trouble about a month in, when I mentioned Office Space to my boss and he told me he shut it off 10 minutes in because it wasn't funny. I lasted 9 months, and then I ran for the hills. - napier, on 10/12/2007, -2/+79This sounds familiar...
Peter Gibbons: I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.
Joanna: You're just not gonna go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won't you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don't know, but I really don't like it, and, uh, I'm not gonna go.
Joanna: So you're gonna quit?
Peter Gibbons: Nuh-uh. Not really. Uh... I'm just gonna stop going.
Joanna: When did you decide all that?
Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.
Joanna: Oh, really? About an hour ago... so you're gonna get another job?
Peter Gibbons: I don't think I'd like another job.
Joanna: Well, what are you going to do about money and bills and...
Peter Gibbons: You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either. - Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -7/+79"Companies don't make it taboo to steal...stealing makes it taboo to steal. "
Yep. People might not like that but it's true. One person taking a box of paperclips sounds utterly innocuous, but if everyone did it then it's a major problem. And where does it end? If paperclips are ok, how about binders? Staplers? The computer on your desk?
Your employer is *not* a Grab All You Can Free Shop(c) - SEN5241, on 10/12/2007, -6/+72@detlev409
Hi Bob, ... Bob.
Seriously, I would always give notice. Not because I want to make the company's life easier, but because I have my professional reputation to maintain. Your next company will know if you gave notice or left your current company hanging. Your co-workers (both old and new) will know as well. If you want to have a hope of advancing in the world of your peers, you should do the right thing regardless of how much you want to stick it to your current employer.
The long-term benefits you get from being seen as a professional with scruples far outweighs the short-term benefit you may see when leaving your current company to stew in their own ignorance. There is no need to sink down to their level. It just doesn't pay (and by pay, I mean the size of your future paychecks). - canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -13/+70wow, so those of you digging this think a 30 something person that doesn't even have a job knows the first thing about how to manage a successful career? it is painfully obvious, yet again, that ms acres doesn't know the first thing she is talking about but since she takes that "***** authority and ***** the man" stance, some of you feel like she speaks the truth.
sorry v, we can't all just get married and sit around the house while our spouse pays the bills. - Winters, on 10/12/2007, -4/+57Quitting your job without notice is fine, but not having the spine to go pick up your last check, that's just cowardly.
Personally, that would be my FAVORITE part of the whole experience. Of course I'm not an insecure coward. - datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+49Anyone who relies on the government for their retirement is a dammed fool.
Blaming republicans for social security being a dismal failure is completely wrong...social security is insolvent because congress has overspent itself on ridiculous social programs throughout the years and has borrowed against the money put into social security in the first place. - PLUMCRAZY, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45In my last job I was Operations Manager at a small manufacturing company. When the President of the company asked me to make a big banner to hang up in the production area as a reminder of our new process improvements; I laughed in his face and promptly set about ignoring him. Instead, week we brought in pizza for lunch for everyone as a thank-you for all their hard work. The process improvements were a huge success and everyone got a big bonus at the end of the year.
Another story of an American manufacturing facility made better through the lessons learned from "Office Space" - solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37yeah, you can have those.
I will take all my work rewards in the form of cash, check, or paid time off only.
as the saying goes, Money talks.***** walks. - directedition, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37You give two weeks notice because it's the polite thing to do, even if they could lay you off without notice. Just because someone else can be a jackass doesn't mean you have to be.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+38Thanks. For a second there I thought we weren't going to drag politics into this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39@chompy
i agree. she did act like a child. and while i think that she shouldn't give her employers any more respect than they give her, a simple "i quit." would have been the right thing to do. i think companies begin to develop this parent-child relationship with their employees because of behavior such as this. - mustafya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I work for a bank. Our incentives are ALL cash based. Whether it be paid time off or just cold hard cash. Here is an example. You might wonder why sometimes at the bank the teller or whomever asks you about credit cards?
The other day for every credit card application you got filled out you got 15 minutes pto. For everyone approved you got 30 minutes. We have one chick that now has almost 3 hours of pto from that one day. Hell, here if you refer someone for employment and they make it through their 90 days you get a bonus (150 or 500 depending on whether you are salaried or hourly).
It is amazing how much harder the people at my bank work then at previous jobs where you got employee of the month or some other stupid *****. - iamjames, on 10/12/2007, -21/+47That website is the bitchy rants of a lonely 30-something woman looking for attention and nothing more. There's nothing there of value, she'll say anything to piss people off like Andrew Dice Clay did 20 years ago except his ***** was funny and entertaining.
Read her FAQs if you don't believe me, it's all an act, she rants on and on about not caring about people reading and bs when it's obvious she craves the attention:
http://www.violentacres.com/archives/52/frequently-asked-questions - firelord24, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28She actually said that they were stealing the time that you aren't at work from you. Which is true everytime you have to answer a call from home, take a project on vacation, or any other time they intrude on your life when you aren't at work.
- cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24It's not this simple.
Example: I have a cliche ***** boss - a sociopathic, abusive, do-no-work boss who gets away with everything. Last week, after only 7 months on the job, I handed in my resignation, with a month's notice as expected by my contract. Believe me, I wanted nothing better than to walk out of there the minute I got a new job. Why didn't I? Because of THE PEOPLE I WORK WITH. I may hate my boss and the work I do, but many of my teammates count on me to finish the projects I've been helping them with to the best of my ability. I actually like most of them and don't want to leave them hanging - especially as I know the useless ***** that calls himself my manager will slack off on hiring a replacement. - canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26arbit- she invested very well. she got herself a sugar daddy that can pay her bills and let her stay home to rant about how much better and smarter she is than anyone else.
- arbiterxero, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27Miss Acres.... ahhh yes, the woman that 'invested well' so she can retire young
Has a husband, no kids.... so we're told...
I dunno, there are only 4 investments that pay off that well...
Divorce
Life Insurance
Frivolous Lawsuits
Trophy Wife
And any of those qualify her to speak about careers? Somehow I'm tired of reading her rants. Too embellished, if they're real at all. - Dadelus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Not necessarily the truth. My wife worked for a company where she worked long hours, weekends, etc... One Saturday while working on a web app that would allow clients to upload files to the companies servers she grabbed the first file she found out on the network. When the file opened up after being uploaded she noticed that the file she used was the salary evaluation for the entire company (about 20 ppl). The first thing she noticed that the raise she was just given (less than 3%) just got her to the bottom of the salary range the evaluation stated she should be in. She then noticed that the new guy who had just been hired and hadn't really done much but kiss the bosses ass for the past month had not only been hired for more then she was getting, but had been given a raise that put him into the middle of the salary spectrum.
Of course all of this could be written up to her not negotiating hard enough for salary. Except when the boss gave her that paltry raise she told my wife that it put her into the middle of her salary rand and that it was all the company could afford to pay her at the time and they REALLY appreciated all the hard work she did for them. So what was my wife supposed to think? - canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27she's a "writer" the same way anyone else that has a blog is, meaning she's not really a writer. and i don't find her entertaining at all, every post is the same; i'm better than you, ***** this person, ***** this thing, i'm so much smarter or cooler blah blah blah. and her alternative to the office life is to sponge of her hubby, i doubt she's making enough of her blog to pay her own bills, she even admits that his financial success is why she could quit her job. she is miserable and it shows- she hates everyone and everything and she forms half-ass opinions with no knowledge of her subject matter but acts like her opinion is right and everyone else is a ***** even if they have more experience with the subject matter than her. but young people will digg it up because she uses '*****' quite often and never stops reminding people of how supercoolfantasticawesome she is. this is the kind of garbage i would have liked when i was a 15yr old skater listening to punk rock, but now that i have some intellect and experience, i see it for what it is.
- rtakach, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20dude how is it the president's fault that pensions and health care are declining?
scapegoating the president is too easy these days...he has nothing to do with pensions and health care by private companies. you ever think that pensions are dissappearing because people are living longer and sucking money out of the system? companies had cash coming out of their asses and said "hey let's guarantee pensions for all retirees until they die" now they aren't as financially well off as they used to be and they're paying out assloads of money in pensions.
thats not the presidents fault.
oh yeah and on social security - why do immigrants get social security when they never paid into it? there are so many people receiving these benefits that never contributed to it...that's part of the problem. - PleaseBeSerious, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21@Software2
Are you new around here? :P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16A lot of times your prospective employer will want to call you last supervisor. Now, if that supervisor is smart they are not going to say anything awful about you. However, in a situation like this is is VERY easy to damn with faint praise. It is a little unwritten rule that if you call for a reference and the person says "oh yes, he was quite punctual and completed all assignments" that they might as well have said you were Hitler reincarnated. Nothing actionable in the sense of a lawsuit but the message gets across all the same. If you want a chance at that next job your going to want your old supervisor to be an advocate.
In short, don't walk out unless you truly have to. - founderofpork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I have never, ever understood why anyone would answer a call from work while they are not on the clock. Work stays in the hours that I am at work. It never comes home with me and never, ever will unless there is a serious financial benefit (which there never is, because as the article points out, companies like to reward you like it's elementary school all over again).
If someone has a problem with you not answering the phone, suggest that they should start paying you your hourly rate 24hrs a day, and then maybe they'll be able to talk. Most jobs are soul-sucking, awful ordeals that I would wish only on my worst enemies. I've had more than a few days feeling like this woman in the morning, and I quit jobs based on how they treat me, which is rarely very well. ***** professionalism. There's nothing professional about any of the offices I've worked in. ***** joke if you ask me. - HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Bottom of articles:
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Jesus... attention whore much? - founderofpork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I think you're being too hard on her. Have you worked these hopeless ***** office jobs before? We can't all just turn off our minds, work eight hours a day doing whatever some ***** middle manager says, and then come home and enjoy our time off. I can't do it, she can't do it. I feel for her. Most jobs are so utterly ***** unrewarding. You just feel like you're wasting every day and eventually you just get to a breaking point and you can't go back there. And yes, you end up ***** hating your environment, hating your life, hating your boss, your coworkers, anyone who can just tune out and let all that ***** go and work.
We can't all do that. We're not all built the same way. Just because you can work a ***** pointless job for forty years without complaint doesn't mean she can, or should. ***** that job and let her find her own way in the world. - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Sorry, the giving of two weeks notice is not out of fear of bad review. You give two weeks notice out of professionalism. As they say, it's not personal... it's just business.
- kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13From 1997 to 2001 I worked for a local manufacturer of awards, plaques, engravings etc. There were a grand total of fifty employees which allowed the then owner of the company to break all sorts of rules.
By 2001 I knew the gig was up. The company was financially unstable and my wage growth was pretty stagnant. Not to mention we were treated like absolute *****. From working a 7:30AM to 5:00PM job with only one half hour break per day, to the fact that the owner was a first class *****.
One shining moment is when the controller and I were in his office arguing about the direction we should take regarding server OS's. The owner was a Novell head, the controller and I fell into two camps, Linux and Windows. We tried to argue that TCO on Novell was very very high, whereas with the others it wasn't. The owner was headstrong and decided we'd go Novell, knowing the learning curve would be steep. During this meeting he was actually shouting at us.
I think that was the tipping point for me. I saw an ad for a state job, sent my resume and lo and behold got a call for a first interview. Made that one no problem, had my tech interview and aced that then finally met the official in charge of the office who offered me the position.
I gave my then boss two weeks notice. During that two weeks he tried to work me like a dog until the day before my last day I finally had it. I was in Medford, MA doing some work on something and over the phone he's trying to tell me what to do. At that point I told him I'd see him in an hour.
I drove like a maniac getting back to Providence. When I walked in the door the owner was standing there with that "What did I do?" look on his face. I threw the keys to the truck at him and then he starts blathering about it not being fair. I pulled him into the conference room and told him four years of his ***** wasn't fair either.
When I started the new job I explained that my former employer was unstable and might try something. Sure enough, three months in he tried it. An investigation was done and the chief investigator calls me into his office and asks me how the hell I worked in that other place for four years. The investigator then told me that in his opinion my former employers complaints were baseless and that the files would be destroyed.
A couple years later an election is held and I have a new boss, who then proceeds to tell me I'm fired. WTF? Then I realized, my former employer was the next door neighbor of the Speaker of the House. Interesting.
It's ok though - I bounced back and in the meantime that manufacturing firm melted down in 2006. What goes around comes around. Oh, and the Speaker of the House is now the FORMER speaker. He's not even a member of the legislature anymore.
So even though RI is an employment at will state, watch out for those vindictive ***** who just don't give a *****. - steech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Wow what an unreasonable employer!
1. Be respectful to others
2. Don't steal ***** that isn't yours
3. Give notice before you quit so we can find someone to replace you
Maybe I missed the point of her article, but I own a business and I've found that it doesn't matter how much you pay someone. If they are the type of person that thinks the world owes them something and that they don't have to work hard to earn a living they will never truely be happy with their jobs, no matter how nice their boss is or how much money they make.
Maybe she should try owning a business sometime and see what it's like when jerks like her don't show up for work one day. Golden rule my ass! - sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I'm so depressed now. I realize i feel the same way every frakkiing day.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"It's been 7 months and they haven't hired your replacement still? Sounds like you did an awful lot around there. I'm sure they where *really* sad to see you go."
I sense your sarcasm here. However, I do get the feeling that I was pretty important there considering the fact that I get calls from my co-workers telling me how swamped they are and how much they need me back, or the fact that the new president of the company actually approached me on two separate occasions to get me to come back for considerably more than what they were paying me before. The only reason I'm not back there is because they can't match what I'm making now and I would make more than everyone else if I did. That may sound like they don't really want me back but then why did they call me twice to begin with?
A lot of companies do purposely drag their feet hiring replacements. Spreading the extra workload across everyone is cheaper than hiring someone outright. - praptak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"There are other ways to reward people for good work other than just throwing money at you."
There is only one - true respect. And this one is almost impossible to produce in the corporate environment. All the other ways boil down to money. And you better watch out how you spend it, because people *wil* see if you try to buy $1000 worth of motivation for a $0.05 plastic badge. - TheNico, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12@ entrepeneur2
You might be right... but you're not. Sure, there are thousands of people waiting for that job, but they will get treated like ***** and quit within a year too. The employers don't care. You ask for a raise, you get fired, they hire the next schmuck for even less than they pay you. Who cares if they totally suck at the job, at least the company is saving money by not paying them anything...
I read this article and thought to myself 'did she write this about me?' I have actually done the turn around and go home thing before just cause if physically made me ill to walk in the building. I will bet a dollar she worked for a University of some sort. The one I work for is the only place that I know of that can force me to work over the 40hrs a week that my contract states I am paid for and not give me overtime. It is also the only place I know of that can A) force you to break the law and possibly get arrested or B) lose a vacation day. Last week we had a blizzard. Those of us that live outside of the city stayed home even though the school was open. I stayed home because our county was under snow emergency, I didn't really feel like getting arrested for being out on the roads after the mayor said "Anyone found out on the roads that is not an emergency vehicle will be arrested".
Another thing that is very annoying about a university setting... I am just a lowly IT staffer, I have been called names, slandered, had lies told about me, etc... I filed formal complaints through the proper channels, only to get reprimanded by the university basically because I was bugging them and the professors are tenured so they won't do anything to them before. I'm sorry, but last I checked, an Arab professor calling me and the rest of my department anti-Arab and spreading it around the whole school is slander and reverse discrimination in my book... - MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20@GreyArea:
Interesting you bring up this "slippery slope". What is going to happen is that one person takes a box of paper-clips, then everyone sees that happen, and then everyone takes home a box of paper-clips, next thing you know, everyone starts taking binders and staplers, getting self-assurance by seeing other people steal.
But this is a "slippery slope", next thing you're going to see happen is that the management can no longer trust anyone that works at the company, and then they will ship off all the work to India, and next thing you know, they will ship all management off to India, and they won't even be based in the U.S. anymore, and then they will end up killing all the slave-laborers they have, and face global indictment for war crimes!!
This is a slippery slope. - REBELinBLUE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14wow you only get 2 weeks off in the US? That is insane. In the UK we have the least of anywhere in Europe and even we get 28 days (4 weeks [20 days] plus 8 for public holidays), in Finland they have 39 days off (5 weeks [25 days] plus 14 for public holidays).
We also get hold pro rata, you don't work a year before you get any. - tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@iamjames
"Read her FAQs if you don't believe me, it's all an act, she rants on and on about not caring about people reading and bs when it's obvious she craves the attention:"
Agreed. If she didnt care what people thought about her rants, she probably would not have linked digg, reddit, etc at the bottom. - badfrog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This is why everyone but HR people hate HR departments. Especially the ones that think their job should be more than hiring and recruiting.
- chigdon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It all comes down to this. You and the company are even on payday.
- Sublimation, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12This is so true. I've never taken ***** from my employers but I guess I've never been desperate for work.
My last job before I started my own business was working as a telephone operator/technical support role for a small family owned telephone company. I had to sign a Non-Compete Agreement which I am still effected by. I had to work 50 hours a week. I couldn't leave for my lunch break in case calls picked up and they needed me. The owner of the company (the daughter of the founder, who didn't earn her position in anyway) had her office right next to the operator room with a large glass window between us and her. They told me that the guy who created the whole company used to like watching the cord-board's in the operator room because it was the lifeblood of the phone industry at the time. However, the current owner seemed to like to hover around the window making sure none of us were doing anything "unapproved".
What was considered unapproved activity in this 10 hour a day position at a tiny phone company where you got maybe 3-4 information calls an hour? Essentially anything except doing your job. You couldn't bring a book to read. You couldn't browse the internet unless it was about technology related to your job. However, you could knit if you wanted to. So, here I am a 21 year old self-acclaimed computer genius male who moved out to this ***** island and took a ***** job for my girlfriend so she could have her dream job and I can't even browse digg.com at work without getting in trouble. Can't even bring a book in to read without getting in trouble.
Every day the job wore at me. I could feel myself dying a little bit every day. Each time some random piece of trash would dial 411 and scream at me that it was a mistake and they demanded a refund. Every time some irate drunk would dial in asking for me to get information in some random country for them and having them get upset at the time it takes to get directory assistance from other telephone companies due to deregulation.
So, I called my boss (my boss was in a seperate building where tech support was, which was away from the company administration) and told him I quit because of the limitation's placed on reading books on other things that don't harm the company in anyway. The only reason this stupid rule was in place was because they wanted the operator room to look "professional" at all times in case they brought by some random person they needed to impress. He asked me if I was giving him my two week's notice then and I simply said no. I was leaving right then and I was done. Their contract said they could fire me at any time so I was going to quit at any time as well.
Do you know what happened? Not a second after my coworker in the room said, "So you are quitting?" he had called me back and offered to move me down to the tech support department. You see, since tech support was in a seperate building they didn't care about the administrator's rules. You could look at any webpage you wanted within reason. You could read books. You could throw nerf footballs around. They knew that any kind of phone related position is high stress and you need to have some other distraction.
It was much better and had I started there instead of covering the phone operator's positions so they could go to tech support for training I might have stayed. I decided that this wasn't going to cut it either though. I simply had reached my breaking point of dealing with complete morons on the phone and I knew tech support was going to be even worse based on watching my coworkers that first day and their deft manuevering of the mute button so they could take a break and scream.
I approached my boss again (this time in person since we were both hiding at the tech support building to avoid the robots in the main office) and told him that I appreciated the change but I just couldn't deal with the general public anymore. Thanks for the position, good bye.
After that I went back to my computer and was going to shut it down and leave when I got an instant message from my boss. He had another position to offer me. It turns out they wanted to rollout wireless to cover the entire island to compete with Verizon on the north end since they couldn't offer DSL there. He wanted me to be on a team of three people in charge of deciding which technology to use and how to implement and install the entire wireless service.
However, like I said.. I didn't need the money and I already had big ideas for my own company. So, I turned him down and left anyway.
The moral of the story? Don't take any guff from these swine. If you let yourself be bullied into giving up simple perks at your job that make it bearable then they have no reason NOT to take those things away from you. It seems as though by being straightforward about why I was unhappy and the fact that I was just generally uninterested in any of their desires they promoted me twice in two days. I went from making $12 an hour to being offered $25 an hour and being put on an actual project without having to deal with the general public anymore.
I had the same thing happen at a previous position as well. I got a temp job at Premera Blue Cross as an accounting clerk doing data entry for two weeks to get them caught up. After one week I had written software to completely automate their corporate check card account balancing. I had nearly automated their invoice records handling except for the addition of an OCR scanner to provide data for the program. My boss scheduled a meeting for me with her boss's boss. I explained to them how they could use OCR to fully automate the job they'd given me as well as normal office procedures.
I was offered a permanent position in a job catagory they didn't even have at the time (automation of office ***** or something like that) making $40 an hour with bonuses. I turned them down though because I had just moved to the state and took the temp job thinking it would be a temp job. I had a total of four hours commuting each day.
So, basically.. always be creative with your work. Always think of ways you could be faster and better. You need to innovate and come up with your own solutions. Make sure you are getting your work done but strive to find ways to be better.
If you can do 4x as much work as anyone else because you make your job interesting by finding ways to do your work faster then rules will not apply to you. No company is going to fire someone for watching YouTube all day at work and blowing off meetings if you are crushing everyone else who holds your position in terms of efficency. Figure out what it is that your boss actually does and do it yourself instead. If that isn't possible make it impossible for your boss not to realize you are the best worker they have. Once they realize this.. and their superiors realize there is an increase in production in that department.. that is when you can get whatever you want. Your boss is not going to let someone go who will cause his department to look like it's failing horribly once you leave. Your position is what you make it, don't ever stay idle and accept the grind. Never.. ever.. ever. It doesn't matter if you have some ***** minimum wage job you're just doing for a week. Treat it like you're being paid $100,000 a year with stock options. What else do you have to do at work all day? Pour your heart and soul into it and rise above everyone else.. you have nothing to lose.
Oh.. and when I was younger my family was too poor for me to even get food when I went to school. I had to get hand outs from my friends and teachers. So, I don't want to hear about your bills or how it's too hard because you have to deal with xyz. No matter what position you are in someone else has had it worse and pushed themselves harder and come out farther ahead. - stretch611, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I give two weeks notice because of my co-workers. When you leave it takes time to replace you. When your group is missing someone everyone else is forced to work harder. If you leave and do not transfer your accumulated business knowledge to your co-workers they have a more difficult task of figuring out what you were doing from scratch.
- socket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wow. Stunning! Complete and utter nonsense. You really think companies are so stupid? That they don't have a very simple way of protecting themselves from litigation while still being able to impart accurate information to the HR departments of other companies?
When big HR department of company A calls big HR department of company B to verify information provided on an application they can ask all of TWO questions really.
Mr. X work for your company from X date to Y date?
Would you rehire Mr. X?
So in two SIMPLE questions the HR person at company A on the other side of the line knows a couple things. They know if you're a total jackass and never worked for company B and is just making ***** up. The second question is dreadful opened ended to avoid the potential litigation our retarded little blogger mentioned. But if they wouldn't rehire you what the hell do you think that means? That means you where fired or left under less then ideal circumstances.
She's stupid. Anyone trained in HR knows you can't ask specific questions about an employee. That's why they ask the rehire question. Any HR department will give a YES or NO reply with no fear of being sued.
Do not listen to retards who use the word "*****" in the blog more then anything over a few syllables. - jlunski, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I agree, sounds like this chick needs help or to put it in words she'd understand - "Grow the F*** up!"
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11As I was reading the article, I was hoping she'd touch on the 2-week notice thing. I'm glad she did, and my sentiments are the same. No employer would give someone 2 weeks notice to find another job, apply for unemployment, or whatever else he/she needs to do to get his/her life in order. They just fire you on the spot, with no warning. Why is it that it's viewed as wrong when I fire them on the spot?
I worked for a ***** employer once. My pay was way too low for what the job was. Naturally, the market came to fruition, and I got a job that paid $5 an hour more. I gave them two weeks notice because the job itself wasn't terrible (I actually liked it, it was just the company that had a problem with letting idiots that make bad decisions run it that I had the problem with). I figure it would be nice of me, even though I could have used that extra pay for those two weeks at the new job, and I even offered to train my replacement. They farted around for 2 weeks and hadn't had anyone hired when the Thursday before my last day rolled around. I left that Thursday at noon. It's been 7 months, and they still haven't hired my replacement. - BESTenemy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Deep inside each of us there's an Office Space guy waiting for his red stapler, whispering quietly...
- jcounterman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Too many people bitch about being praised for what they are supposed to do, saying they deserve money instead. Many of the "pats on the back" or "smiley face notes" you may get from your boss are ways of saying "Thanks for doing what you are already paid to do." Cold hard cash, time off, etc only come when you do something to stand our and go above and beyond.
Not saying this is everybody, but I know a fair number of people who think a "thanks" should be spelled "Thank$" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think the old joke goes. I am going to give you my 2 weeks notice, in 2 weeks you are going to notice I have been gone for 2 weeks.
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