Workplace

i always have been self employed. but, by course, there were some employees who were childish. faking work, making excuses, lying to get out early to go to the beach or "my kid is sick, i got to take the day off"! here's another one: people would come in to work smelling like alcohol & i could tell immediately. so i would give that person the hardest job that day. once, i went to unload a load of metal at the scrapyard i said to the guys, "i'm going to the scrapyard, will be back in about 1 & a half hours". i knew that the 2 guys would start looking around to see if they could find any junk they wanted. before i left each person was filling a garbage pale in about 5 to 10 minutes . so in the 1 & half hours i was gone, only 1 & a half garbage cans were filled! i figured they would do that before i left & i was correct. just so happens, the customer liked my work & timely manner in which it was performed so she gave me a $20 tip for each guy totaling $40, excluding my tip. so since they robbed me while i was gone, i kept their tips!

Oooooo... kay then! It is clear that all of us are consumate professionals who know what should be done, and how it should be done, better than anybody else at our respective jobs.

Personally I don't care how business is conducted at my job. I've been there since 2009 and never become a manager. I go in, do my job, clock out and go home, and I like it that way. Much less stress.

Walk-in freezer broke down and we're about to lose $30,000 of thawed out food? Man, that sounds bad. Good luck with that.

Eight people quit? Gee, that's tough. Good luck covering all those shifts. Let me know if you want me to pick up an extra shift here and there. My wallet don't mind a bit.

New guy is a know-it-all who doesn't want to do anything the way he should? That's a manager problem. I get paid to tell him how to do the job, but I don't have to actually care if he DOES it, much less MAKE him do it right.

Don't get me wrong. I do my job and I do it right, and I make it a point of honor to do my job right, but that's pure work ethic. I have no company loyalty at all. I trade my time for their money and I will give them an honest day's work for their money, but when I clock out it is no longer my problem.

And above all, I don't really give a fart in a whirlwind what anybody else does or how they should do it. That's above my pay grade and I want to keep it there.

Also adding to the 'Peter Principle' that was mentioned earlier.

-We see that you have made a 10 million dollar mistake in this spreadsheet. To correct this, we will promote you as a director to another department. Congratulations.

And speaking of DEI hires, when i call the health insurance company for myself or for my mom, i get a person who can't speak English and i don't understand a word they're saying due to the heavy accent.
I'm thinking to myself: This is the person you chose to represent your company? You couldn't find anybody else?

This is why appreciate when i call T-Mobile or other places where they're not doing DEI hires and i get a guy from Maine or Boston answering the phone from his house (because they're working from home).
-Hey wassgoing on with your phone bro?

I'm like: Thank you! I love you!

Oh there's so much w*rk love here!

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You kidding? It's a free reality show everyday. You can't make this stuff up.

Here's another good one.
When a high-level position is posted, they leave the job posting out there purposefully for over a year so the newspapers can see how hard the politicians are working.
Then after a year:

-After a very rigorous process and thorough nation-wide search, we have determined that uncle Bob's nephew is the most qualified for this position.

#nepotism

You could have included self-employment. Then no need to worry about bosses, co-workers, office politics, unfair wages. And more effort hurt no one.

Finding work that you "love". Ideally if one can use one's talents and abilities instead of 9-5 drudgery, there is no stress. If one can eork from home, even better.

I feel the same way. Just leave me alone, get out of my way, and let me do my job.

In office-related jobs, the people who do the actual work are hidden away and very hard to find.
Today i needed someone to push a button.
So i traveled for 2-3 hours between different floors and asking 10 layers of management to find out who actually owns an application so they can push a button.
Finally, after a long journey of talking to many people in different floors, i ended up on the b level, on some obscure area which wasn't even clean and lit well and i rang a doorbell which looked like the door of an abandoned room.

A guy opens the door.

- Hey are you the guy who owns this application?
- Yes i am.
- Can you please push the button and give access to one of my co-workers so he can do his job?
- Oh yeah sure lemme do that right now.
- Thank you. Oh by the way, here's my direct phone number so we don't play broken telephone with 10 managers in-between.
- Nice, thanks. I'll email you directly.

I have been unemployed for 8 months. It's been hard and a very humbling experience. My unemployment insurance ran out, thank God by wife continues to work. I was previously an executive at a real estate investment firm. I have not been able to find work and now looking to switch careers in insurance sales. I have been praying that God opens doors for me.

Sorry to hear that.
Without knowing anything about you or your situation, skills and experience, i can generally say that if you are persistent after a position that you see posted, you should be able to get it.
Meaning, i get real personal with the company. I knock on their doors to show interest and i even buy them something so they can remember me among other applicants.
I did this when i was young, because i didn't have much experience then. But i would do it again if i lost my job, despite my experience now.
If this doesn't work, then try a lower level position just so you get into the door.
And if that doesn't work, there are many other low paying jobs in many other industries and fields just so you can bring something in the house.
Hopefully you don't have a lot of debt either.

Just keep trying, knock on doors, call several times to show your interest and pray to God to give you the best job for you at this point in your life.

Also, interview prep helps. Knowing how to respond to basic interview questions (greatest weakness, handling conflict, etc) as well as some knowledge about the job and industry is good. Too enthusiastic is not good as that can come across as desperation.

Yes, you can learn these fine-details as you do interviews.
I also do interviews for fun, not because i want the job.
The interview is a two-way street. You learn about them and they learn about you.

"Desperation" can also work if they want to hire someone with a low salary, which means that you have a job while you're looking for another higher paying job and doing more interviews.

America is essentially limitless when it comes to work. All you need is the will and a can-do attitude.

Yes I've actually how to play down my experience. My previous title was Senior Vice President, and I no longer use that title in my resume as it can spook some employers with salary expectations. Almost assuredly I will be taking a pay cut and that's OK. My wife has been supportive, and the kids understand to some degree.

I've been praying as a part of me doesn't want to go back to the same field but try something new and I recently got my life insurance sales license, but sales is NOT easy. So it's been a lot of things which probably triggered a mid-life crisis.

You know what really grinds my gears?
People who say "Thank you" on emails.

Lady, you didn't do anything. The engineering department did. If you really wanna thank them, then go and buy a cup of coffee to all the people who did the actual work.

This has been another episode of "What grinds my gears".

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This made me laugh for a while.
Looks like we have a few things in common Cameron.

We know a thing of two because we've seen a thing or two.
-Farmers

We've definitely swallowed alot of the same dust.