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Noodleface

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We have an office (extra bedroom). Before my wife had the kid she tore it apart, literally shit strewn everywhere. Then the kid came 2 weeks early and my "office" is just a minefield of shit. I know the struggle.
 
Heylel

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Our renter moved out, so I'm about to split our offices. She can keep the current room, and I'll take the spare bedroom and move my desk in there. It's impossible to be productive when we're both home.
 
Cad

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Haha ok so at this firm, apparently the secretaries do take care of personal shit. One of the partners has his doing his bills, getting his car washed, scheduling personal travel, setting up meetings with kids teachers, etc.

Haha. I'd be embarrassed to have all that shit be in the work domain, I don't want people knowing what I spend or on what. Or what my wife is doing. Etc. My secretary told me that a lot of the secretaries know EVERYTHING about our lives because they take care of everything. Scary.
 
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At my gfs firm they all seemed to know everything anyway. They would gossip about bonus checks etc they opened so i can't imagine caring if they know i get my car washed.
 
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Picasso_sl said:
At my gfs firm they all seemed to know everything anyway. They would gossip about bonus checks etc they opened so i can't imagine caring if they know i get my car washed.
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No I mean these guys have them paying everything, credit card bills come to the firm, mortgage, child support to previous wives, probably payments to various hookers/escorts. They keep their money tight from the family so the wives can't audit them. Which ain't a bad idea all things considered. The secretaries look through the bills and then gossip about what they spend money on. These are guys making 1-4 million a year, so it's some stupid outrageous shit.
 
Heylel

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THAT is how my first interview should have went. I'm pretty sure I knocked it out of the park. We have a follow-up already scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.
 
Borzak

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I can imagine secretaries talking about personal stuff, but how would they know about bonus checks? That's one thing every place I have worked is on top of. Everywhere else they get the outside company that does them to hand deliver them and you have to sign for them - right there. Regular pay checks the HR lady hands out. Kind of standard in my industry I guess. Bonuses are normally quite large going from 10-50% of gross pay.

The one peson I knew that complained after he found out what someone else made for their bonus from that person got canned. He didn't know why he only got a $12k bonus as an estimator and the general manager who had been running the company for basically 40 years and was the owners right hand man made $48k. I got hired to replace him at my last place of employment. Owner mentioned it during my interview and I laughed considering I knew them both. One ran the company lol.
 
Borzak

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I'm officially unemployed now even tho I get paid till the end of the year. I'm supposed to consult during that period. We'll see.

Owner came to town and told me to lay off the petro chemical approach. I was specifically hired to do that by the president of the company. Apparently it was rustling feathers of our sister company that is 5x larger than we are. They service the petro chemical sector but structural only. We don't do structural. He wanted me to stay, but I would be just a paper pusher and other shit I have no patience or desire to do.

President wasn't in today, I'm going in tomorrow to talk to him. I got a feeling it ruslted feathers in a lot of places. Most of us do "contracts" on a unit price system - so much per pound in a variety of groups. I heard who they were contracting to wasn't happy and gave them a better price. Our company was esatic about it and said they could make a lot of money at that price. I didn't know they were currently contracted with our sister company. From what the controller said they weren't making money at that price.

Don't wanna get involved in that kind of crap. I told the owner to give me a list of their customers to avoid and would go forward. He said ignore the petro chemical industry. Then why hire me? That was what I had to offer. Not doing paperwork and interviewing people.
 
Mist

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I stare at alarm screens for servers in 10-12 hour shifts.

Fucking shoot me in the face.
 
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CnCGOD_sl said:
Decided after 2 years at my job that it was time to move n due to issues with Product Management and sales leadership. Have 2 opportunities I like and it is killing me to decide which to go with. Total comp for both is within 5-6 % of each other, one is higher base the other has a commission component that could make it more lucrative. Trying to weigh the pros and cons and they balance a ton. One is no travel work from home working for a VP that is an old friend with my own devops team and the authority to build cool things but no equity. The other is traveling gig with a bunch of equity options and higher potential upside in commissions... but fairly constrained technologically (search focus).

Really hard to know if I should go for the more corporate growth path (Principal architect with Sr director within a year or two) with a better end game (work life balance) or the big potential (possible upper six figures worth options if they IPO high) high effort job that is very specialized and mostly individual contributor focused and tends to be a career dead end (Sales Engineer).
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Why is sales engineer a dead end job? Isn't consulting the next step?
 
Dyvim

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Borzak_sl said:
I'm officially unemployed now even tho I get paid till the end of the year. I'm supposed to consult during that period. We'll see.

Owner came to town and told me to lay off the petro chemical approach. I was specifically hired to do that by the president of the company. Apparently it was rustling feathers of our sister company that is 5x larger than we are. They service the petro chemical sector but structural only. We don't do structural. He wanted me to stay, but I would be just a paper pusher and other shit I have no patience or desire to do.

President wasn't in today, I'm going in tomorrow to talk to him. I got a feeling it ruslted feathers in a lot of places. Most of us do "contracts" on a unit price system - so much per pound in a variety of groups. I heard who they were contracting to wasn't happy and gave them a better price. Our company was esatic about it and said they could make a lot of money at that price. I didn't know they were currently contracted with our sister company. From what the controller said they weren't making money at that price.

Don't wanna get involved in that kind of crap. I told the owner to give me a list of their customers to avoid and would go forward. He said ignore the petro chemical industry. Then why hire me? That was what I had to offer. Not doing paperwork and interviewing people.
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How big is your parking lot? Oh and remember to order pizza for the just laid offs.
 
Borzak

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We/they didn't lay off anyone. I quit when I was told not to do the job I was hired to do. I was given the option after I quit to stay on anyway. I passed. I have a contract that last till the end of the year and the owner said they will continue to pay me and pay for the house I'm currently in.

Don't understand the parking lot comment.
 
Heylel

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Just wrapped up interview #2. I'm slated to schedule two more, one with the global team and another with my interviewer's direct reports. It's clear at this point they want to hire me, but the hiring manager needs to waffle a bit about pulling the trigger. She wants someone else to say "yes, get this guy" before she does it.

Which is fine. I know the subject matter so well that I could do it in my sleep.
 
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