Oh yeah, absolutely agree. But I was utterly maliciously compliant in getting my guys their pay increases and bonuses.

I replied in this thread to another person raising a similar concern. Check it out.

Sorry, but this is kinda separate: This is literally what labour unions are for?

I would love it if unions entered my workplace but we’re far to complex and technical. Not to mention in my industry we go through a good 2-3 restructures a year (yeah I know it’s bat shit insane)

In lieu of a union I made it my personal aim to get all my under paid employee bumped to much higher pays. Which was a problem because my team generally only took on existing employees who showed aptitude for technical and complex stuff.

In returned they got a detailed and complex training on everything from sql, to parsecing very large amounts of data, to building complex mappings and results.

Under older management they were often left on their previous pay. I found that really fucking disgusting so I made sure to build a rating system that fairly rated them but made sure that rated/scored/reviewed work automatically ended up on their end of year statement. It was all built using MS stuff. It was cool. I could go in, score their work, it graded them, weighed for complex vs simplex (and different roles) generating a single score. I could do it all year around so if something flag I could easily raise it in our catch ups. I had 3 teams across the entire country (I did a lot of travelling so I could meet my guys and hang, coffee, beers, lunch etc)

It basically meant that everything was documented and very fucking detailed, and because they were meeting the straight forward no sneaky lawyer trick KPIs it meant they were able to smash it.

So at EOY where we did peer review the other managers tried to shoot down my ratings for my guys (which gave them 10% bumps and hit their STI (approx $2-4k bonus) however kept coming up against the documentation.

It should be the number one goal for any manager to make it realistic and possible for their guys to get their bonus and pay raises.

Coz a happy team is a good fucking team. As a direct result of this effort we solved over 99% of all the work on our ledger by EOY.

If anything we were a little too successful. But that’s story for another day.

Not only do you cure your PTSD but you can cure others with your serene wisdom

Have you heard of asbestos my good friend. Despite what people think its not even properly banned. Shit we put it in kids toys and makeup still

Fun fact: I had a career in which I was in charge of hiring other people to fill the expanding roles in my department, and was tasked with hiring ‘more of myself’, but I was not allowed to even consider people with my own qualifications.

I had a similar problem. Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.

Finally HR called me and explained that for what the job entailed we couldn’t possibly pay the market price for it.

I was like but that’s the job. Shit I thought I had even made the JDs pretty succinct and austere already.

Nup, apparently we’d be paying upward for $100k for a job the guys in team were only getting $60k.

As you can imagine we got a lot of applications but 90% weren’t even close to what we needed.

I was mostly self-taught, and was only allowed to consider people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a field that didn’t even really exist yet.

Same.

I personally don’t like hiring uni graduates. Their utterly lost and difficult to motivate. And almost always what they learned in university does not help whatsoever in the role. Especially dev roles.

For the work I’m involved in there a lot of exception handling. Solving the bugs and looking at the relationship between the stacks. It’s more of a puzzle.

in my ~15 years of IT, I’ve never seen a backup not restore properly.

I remember Outlook backups failing like nothing else during the restore process 25 years ago.

Which was fucked because it would take 2 weeks to rebuild only to find out it didn’t work.

It probably has asbestos in it (no really).

Don’t open it

Check out Titanium Court

It’s very old school. Very impressive

Call centre boss gets paid all of $10k more then a CSR

It’s crazy how they give that shit out once you pass a certain age.

And yet if you have cancer or a serious, chronic or otherwise illness/injury you it’s like “have you tried paracetamol”?

Linux distros have driver support for a Chrome book touch screen?

Lol, I’d like to see that

Tattoos on the penis don’t hurt at all

Well back on the 2077s men were well known to be animals.

There is nothing new under the sun…

I guess thats why gastro restaurants are using wild cooking techniques to come up with new dishes and flavours combos.

Foam?

But dishes most people cook in their own home have legacies reaching far beyond time.

Take the Pavlova. Legend has it that it came from the long long ago, in the mist of times of Australia, long before any NZ bastard tried to steal it from us.

What happened to the stick?

It’s fairly well-known historical fact that fascists don’t understand art.

I used to think that as well but when I discovered Dali absolutely fucked up and convoluted political views, well I don’t know anymore.

Fucker refused to denounce the fascists. Sucked up to Franco and the king.

Then again if anything it shows that conservatism is a mind virus and could infect anyone, especially as you get old. You have to be on guard, especially if you suffer surgery, a illness, stroke or cardiovascular disease.

I have to admit the older I get the easier it is to succumb to lazing thinking, presumptions, prejudice, especially when you’re presented with limited information. You have to be actively reminding yourself to apply critical analysis, understand the subtext, thibm about what their not showing.

I don’t forgive older people who are racist cunts. But I can see how easy it is to fall into that way of thinking.

Protect your old people. Block fascist and racist channels on their YouTube and other social media when you’re asked to fix something. To into their email and block the domains of known racists.

Clear, clean, their environment of the fuckers and back them up, pull them into a better politics.

Well the opposite of meth is heroin…

In F04 about 70% of my time is spent scraping piles (scrap all) of rubbish in my settlements.

Doesn’t anyone in the post apocalyptics fucking sweep and recycle???

Well no other animal has mastered Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography either.

Also this one time I shot up heroin whilst peaking on acid and MDMA whilst sucking a bulb of nitrous whilst having sex (fine it was a blow job)

Even some of the more intelligent apes haven’t mastered that either

Damn, maga fascist are now shooting down illegal aliens