- You get to keep all your current memories and knowledge.
- Everyone/everything else is a clean slate.
- You’re starting now (not going back to the past).
Demand my wfh arrangement be in writing, rather than just a “gentleman’s agreement”
It’s like a corporate prenup.
I would do it all over again but I would do the bare minimum. I would do what my job duties entailed in my contract and never give any extra.
Absolutely this. Sadly these days hard work is very rarely rewarded!
Letting it bleed so much into life. My job and my hobby (code) have significant overlap. Stuff I learned on the job started making hobby coding not fun and shortcomings at the job started to feel like my own personal failures. I am slowly learning to separate my work and personal identities, to understand that my employer’s stuff is not my own, and to leave work at work when work ends. I wish I had done that from the first day though.
I would have refused to participate in that Foosball tournament that a coworker begged me to be in because he needed an even number for teams.
A disaster, seriously.
last time we had a foosball tournament, I was made to play on my own against teams of two.
I think it helped me not being slowed down by someone less capable. I won against the other 4 teams on my own.
I don’t think they will make me play on my own again lol
I wouldn’t have befriended my one coworker so I wouldn’t be so upset when they left
Just because they left doesn’t mean you can’t still be friends!
It kind of does when they move across the country
That’s what the internet is for! :)
Idk…they aren’t chronically online like I am. They lead a very busy life and probably didn’t even like me much to begin with.
Quit 10 years sooner.
I would try to believe in myself as much as my employer believed in me. My imposture syndrome for the first couple years was absolutely rank.
Mine is still so bad that my next goal is to move in to a work from home position.
I would not have forgotten my phone. Yesterday was my first day
Congrats on the new job!
Thanks!
But you already knew not to forget your phone.
Stop acting like I’m worthless with low self-esteem. I don’t know why I present myself that way. I’m a valuable competent skilled employee who passes background checks squeaky clean. Someone smack me and tell me to present myself as I deserve.
I even declined the hiring bonus because I felt unworthy of it although I meet all the criteria for it 🤦♀️ But really what I did was tell my managers that I’d rather be given the hiring bonus after I’ve been there a year because I’ve heard that some companies have a stipulation in the contract of hiring bonuses that should anything happen within the first year of my employment that causes me to stop working there, I would have to repay the bonus, so I kept it in mind that if I ever got a job that promised a hiring bonus, I would discuss it with the manager to have the bonus given to me at the end of a year. well I told my managers this and they told me I would have to talk to a higher up manager about it and they told me her name but I forgot, and they didn’t even look me in the eye when they said this and I just kind of never followed up on it.
Instead of hearing about the bonus maybe being pulled back… just read the contract?
And even if you would have to give it back… just park it until its free to use (assuming you dont actually need it)There’s no mention of the hiring bonus in the contract. The hiring bonus was mentioned in the advertisement for the job on ZipRecruiter. I screenshotted it and one of my managers even mentioned it during our initial interview and told me I’m qualified for it so I know it’s real and I have evidence of it. I’m still just laying here in bed in my pajamas not dealing with it. But I’m going to work tomorrow as scheduled.
as to your other point, over my concern of receiving the bonus and not spending it for a year, impossible that I would not spend that if I had it. I live less than paycheck to paycheck which is why I spend so much time on Lemmy because I don’t have enough money to do the things that I would rather be doing. I just sit here when I’m not working and I pay my bills and all my money’s gone then I go to work and pay my bills and just sit here cuz there is no money left to do anything.
mhh… ianal, but if its not mentioned that its pulled back or under which circumstances you will get the bonus, then they cant do much.
But unfortunately in the end the one with the most ressources will be able to intimidate theother one… so can be risky
I hate how being humble and having integrity can translate to being taken advantage of in a toxic relationship.
Can I have your hiring bonus?
No. It’s not even very much. Anyway I guarantee I need it and would appreciate it more than any random internet stranger asking me to hand it over to them.
Ok now im not asking 🔫
You’re starting now (not going back to the past).
This makes it a bit more difficult since I designed most of the architecture at my work. It would take a lot of work to be taken seriously again and not have my opinion being discarded because I’m the newcomer.
I would have to prove myself all over again though, not something I’d look forward to.
In that case, if you could keep your reputation would that change your answer?
Hmmm… I’m quite happy with my work and the benefits I get. I guess if I got to restart I would make some more friends in the right places from the beginning. It’s something I learned only later on that it helps to be on good terms with those higher up, in case you need some support with budgets or priorities.
And vice versa, I would also be more careful with not pissing people off. Early on in my job I ruined a few relationships by being a prissy bitch about how things were supposed to be done, instead of being a bit more open minded. Looking back on it I inwardly cringe at how I acted back then. That’s definitely something I would not repeat, I like to think I’ve grown a bit emotionally since :)
Thanks for sharing. That’s pretty insightful and relatable.
I wouldn’t take the job.
People that hired me are not the people running the joint now. And the current people are pretty terrible.
Similar situation for me, as well. My company’s taken a turn that’s very successful for the C-suites, but more and more stressful for the rest of us and I’m becoming majorly burnt out.
Same here, the manager hiring me left before my employment started. I was a contractor that joined, so I already knew most of the team. Alas, management destroyed the fun in the job. Way to much work, no new knowledged colleagues but we got a truckload of managers to work agile.
Master PowerPoint. People still love their PowerPoint.
Serious question. Is this something that GenAI can help with?
It could help you stay on topic and build good opening and summary slides. A good opening slide helps orient the audience and a good closing side summarizes well. Both help in making sure a decision is reached or the audience is aligned after the presentation.
Thank you!
Maybe. I would need it to follow specific brand guidelines and team requests but at the same time know when to make the creative decision to break rules and dismiss requests. I don’t think the tech is there yet. I have already incorporated other AI tools in my workflow but they have only helped on small and simple tasks.
What I really need is for Microsoft to create a version of PowerPoint that’s meant for designers.
Thanks for clarifying. I honestly didn’t know and this is great insight!
no
Well I started last week… so… everything I guess
Congrats on the new job!
Thanks!
I’d do a much better job of writing a certain web app so that I don’t need to spend the next seven+ years maintaining a pile of shitty PHP and copy-pasted JQuery.
Try my best to rearrange someone else’s code if it’s too hard to read
Saintly work.
I haven’t coded in years but I recall that reading someone else’s code was like getting a glimpse of what their closets and cupboards probably looked like.
