Annual raise time: “Your performance was great, but we gave you a low review because if we rated you appropriately we’d have to give you a raise, and investors want us to cut costs.”
Then eat the investors? Like, this is an easy one…
Never tell them how long it’s really going to take. How else will you look like a miracle worker?
Under promise and over deliver is still king.
“I cannot guarantee something won’t go sideways. I need at least 3 weekends of overtime available to be certain before it’s released.”
Deliver it 10 days later. Or 12, after relaxing for a day or two.
Your timeframe stands. New project? Do it again. Give yourself ~100-150% extra room.
The amount of times i have given myself +40% time to get a job done and then a bunch if shit gets dropped on me, and they are like “oh i though you said you would have it done by wednesday”, and im like “are you fucking kidding me, do you not remember the multiple days that were lost because i had to drop everything for X and Y issues you had?” blank stare for seconds “…so we arent submitting today?”
That was such a trend at a previous job that I started responding to my supervisor’s requests in writing with, “I am currently working on X with a deadline of Y. You have asked me to pivot to Z today. Whatever time I divert to (new request) Z will directly affect delivery on X. Please confirm the order of priority for X and Z.”
If the supervisor’s confirmation was verbal, I would reply with, “Per our conversation, I am <whatever I was told to do>.”
At least then I had receipts in the meeting about why X was behind schedule.
That’s one of things that bothers me about how AI is being pushed in the workplace. Assuming AI actually does manage to help me get my work done faster, it’s not like I get to home earlier or work less days. I’m just going to get more work piled on me.
It has always been like that. We invent machines to help us be more productive. Not to work less, but to produce more. Or the same, but with less people. And every time people protest because they are losing their jobs. Time passes, new types of jobs pop up. Rinse and repeat.
That being said. I’m not particularly on board with A.I. Sure, it can do some really impressive things, but at the same time I think it’s been hyped way above its limits, and I’m not a fan of its environmental footprint. I just don’t think the result is worth price. But I guess only time will tell.
and a pizza party for compensation
Pizza partys’ got nothin on the waffle party
The egg bar is coveted as fuck too
Fucking. Luddite.
/s. The username has the word irony in it.
Look up Luddites that’s literally what it is.
I know what it means
The modern usage or the real historical movement?
I’m a luddite except for holodeck technology, because the shit I wanna do with my life is illegal
You cannot make the world a better place. Easier to invent totalizing simulacra.
But I have!
Names I’ve been called:
Shakespeare
Hemingway
Burroughs
Kerouac
Thompson
Palahniuk
Buddha
Christ
Retard
Idiot
Take your meds x 500000
Pedophile
Hebephile
Crackhead
Meth head
But NOT pothead! I wasn’t good enough to get the job of festival cop, despite being a juggler. Why I switched to righting so much to get so skilled at it. Education IS our best crime deterrent after all, and I’ve been a crackhead for twelve years now. Has nothing to do with amphetamines. I’m a cop, dummy. I make a difference!
Beginning to think my productivity is simply being captured by my boss and turned into profit for my company’s investors.
Without giving you your faire share? They wouldn’t dare.
Took me 20 years to realise getting things done quicker than others doesn’t bring you shit if you get paid per hour. You have to stay your 8 hours. You’ll just always be the work donkey and the lazy ass flirting with the boss will get promoted.
I’m in the fortunate position where boss people are impressed by how much work I do to help the others struggling with having bad bosses.
It pays well but plateaus as you start running out of bosses to defeat. Then you get in this awkward situation where everyone a tier below the c-suite wants you, but don’t understand that you aren’t up for sale in their game.
Been in NFP for a decade and people are still the same. But in NFP you get the leftovers that were never smart enough to be touched for a corporate role. Their idiocy cascades down to a workforce of 15,000 people that have to endure it; people that signed up to help others.
So, that’s my job. Fuck the money—40% of my paycheck is donated—and my time is spent being real good at helping others by showing up the overpaid morons that make life hard. And surfing. And trains. And birdwatching and trees.
I’m intoxicated an am oversharing. o7
Fuck bosses. They’re so useless, weak, and easy to defeat. All you gotta do is break their “network” with logic, and if that fails, a unionised force.
I somehow started rambling again…
I only understood “unionised force” and I gotta say “based”.
There is something to be said for unionising on a micro level. A team of 3 or 4 can make much more ground than organising 1000 workers. Always look for that opportunity by getting deep and essential. Never let them know it’s coming and always have an idiot boss to deflect to so they canabalise each other.
Done well, you get deeper by “saving the day” or whatever.
I mean, if you ain’t drowning in it, are you really working? And if you are, you should get off your ass and work harder so we can drop more work on you!
I could work faster and get my shit done but why would I want to have my bosses give me more shit to do.
I already have two people’s work to do by myself, I’m not going to move faster than a shuffle for what they pay me.
