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Jun 19, 2023 10:29:48 GMT -6
Post by NOTTHOR on Jun 19, 2023 10:29:48 GMT -6
So I'm trying to figure out how to get employment verification from a company that is the outsource point for my most recent employer that caused me to be unemployed. That fucking sucks. I have a pretty good intuition, but this post near the top of page 1 is like Nostradamus level premonition: The c-level types have never been more clueless. They think they need to "radically transform" every fucking thing. Sometimes processes that have been developed over the course of decades work. Sometimes they don't. If you roll into a meeting a few days into a job with no actual fucking knowledge of an operation and shit all over the existing processes you are probably a fucking narcissistic sociopathic grifter who will exhibit absolutely no institutional loyalty. Your operation will probably be mostly H1-Bs in the next five to seven years. Get the fuck out now. He's probably already working a contract with TCS or Infosys to kick off the process. My guess is that he was brought in specifically to "get costs under control" and it's gonna get ugly. Don't try to be a hero and rally the troops in dissent. Just leave.
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Post by socal on Jun 19, 2023 15:12:18 GMT -6
So I'm trying to figure out how to get employment verification from a company that is the outsource point for my most recent employer that caused me to be unemployed. That fucking sucks. I have a pretty good intuition, but this post near the top of page 1 is like Nostradamus level premonition: The c-level types have never been more clueless. They think they need to "radically transform" every fucking thing. Sometimes processes that have been developed over the course of decades work. Sometimes they don't. If you roll into a meeting a few days into a job with no actual fucking knowledge of an operation and shit all over the existing processes you are probably a fucking narcissistic sociopathic grifter who will exhibit absolutely no institutional loyalty. Your operation will probably be mostly H1-Bs in the next five to seven years. Get the fuck out now. He's probably already working a contract with TCS or Infosys to kick off the process. My guess is that he was brought in specifically to "get costs under control" and it's gonna get ugly. Don't try to be a hero and rally the troops in dissent. Just leave. Pretty well nailed that one.
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Jun 21, 2023 14:57:40 GMT -6
Post by livingintheusa on Jun 21, 2023 14:57:40 GMT -6
Ok. Coming to vent a bit... Still gathering all my info to submit for the security background check going back 15 years of work. Minor snag... The company that laid me off in the post-bubble 2009. Was originally a startup in 2000 (SatisFusion) It was sold to another company (WaCA) Who was then acquired by Assurion... Who then took parts and sold off other parts to Suresource LLC (Where I was laid off and told Suresource would be my employee of record) Who then rebranded or were sold to Brandshop... Who were then rebranded as Blueacorn iCi and then acquired by Infosys (or Infosys acquired and then rebranded) So I'm trying to figure out how to get employment verification from a company that is the outsource point for my most recent employer that caused me to be unemployed. Beginning to feel like Mark Watney... If they did not know they wouldn’t be asking
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Jun 21, 2023 15:04:14 GMT -6
Post by livingintheusa on Jun 21, 2023 15:04:14 GMT -6
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Post by socal on Jul 6, 2023 14:03:51 GMT -6
Is official. Despite my f-ed up family, I cleared all the hurdles. Start on the 17th.
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Jul 6, 2023 18:08:03 GMT -6
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Post by Other on Jul 6, 2023 18:08:03 GMT -6
Is official. Despite my f-ed up family, I cleared all the hurdles. Start on the 17th. Congratulations
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Jul 7, 2023 6:27:39 GMT -6
Post by NOTTHOR on Jul 7, 2023 6:27:39 GMT -6
Is official. Despite my f-ed up family, I cleared all the hurdles. Start on the 17th. Congrats, bro. Hopefully given the background check this a job that has export controls on whatever you are doing so Infosys isn't going to gut another IT department you work in!
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Post by socal on Nov 16, 2023 8:51:13 GMT -6
Some updates... Between when I accepted the position and my start date, they pulled me onto a team that had an "urgent need" for someone in my position. Since I was already clearance approved and in the pipeline, I was chosen. So the job was different than I signed on for. Much different and MUCH less work. 99% certain they brought me on to cover a lead that was trying to take a month long vacation (All October). I covered 0% of her job while she's been away. Then as she was preparing to come home end of October, she broke her foot and they forbid her to fly for 5 weeks (November). So the non-existent work I've had and the made up rearranging of the chairs has all dried up.
Since July 17th... I would say I've put in 40 hours of actual work. The people I work with love me and cannot believe how productive I am.
Anyways... the boredom was driving me nuts. So I applied for another position internally. Accepted the offer yesterday which includes a nice pay bump and the promise of actual work to do. Start the new thing on the 27th.
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Dec 13, 2023 14:51:10 GMT -6
Post by socal on Dec 13, 2023 14:51:10 GMT -6
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Dec 13, 2023 19:17:45 GMT -6
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Post by thunderhawk on Dec 13, 2023 19:17:45 GMT -6
Hire me and you’ll never see another 4 yard out pattern. Ever.
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Dec 13, 2023 23:16:30 GMT -6
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Post by Presidential Immunity Cock on Dec 13, 2023 23:16:30 GMT -6
Hire me and you’ll never see another 4 yard out pattern. Ever. Or a delay handoff on 3rd and 15?
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Dec 14, 2023 6:52:04 GMT -6
Post by Stan's Field on Dec 14, 2023 6:52:04 GMT -6
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Dec 14, 2023 9:16:56 GMT -6
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Post by Ginger on Dec 14, 2023 9:16:56 GMT -6
Guys…some day when I can break away with the laptop and get the website, I’ll type you an extensive update about the young man we hired to replace the other guy and how that’s going and the incredible bullshit I’m going through with the projects I’m working on. At this point I feel like antagonizing them to fire me.
As an aside, If anyone knows of a good job where they appreciate hard workers with good pay, let me know.
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Dec 14, 2023 9:20:52 GMT -6
Post by socal on Dec 14, 2023 9:20:52 GMT -6
Guys…some day when I can break away with the laptop and get the website, I’ll type you an extensive update about the young man we hired to replace the other guy and how that’s going and the incredible bullshit I’m going through with the projects I’m working on. At this point I feel like antagonizing them to fire me. As an aside, If anyone knows of a good job where they appreciate hard workers with good pay, let me know. If you see anything up your alley at Leidos, let me know. Lots of remote medically related jobs.
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Post by Stan's Field on Dec 14, 2023 9:35:50 GMT -6
I'm starting to hunt for jobs some.
Tired of the ignorant game players; I can't handle the clout-chasing, need to be in the middle of everything, issue ignoring, accountability adverse, supposedly on top of things, types around me. I've never been more pissed at fellow managers who want their hands on it all, even if it doesn't pertain to them, but want zero accountability. "Oh hai, I reallllyyy want credit, but can I just ride everyone's coat tails and complicate things, then get upset when I'm called out and become directionless because people stop helping me pad my resume, because I literally start very fucking sentence with: 'not knowing a lot about this area'?""
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Post by Other on Dec 14, 2023 11:02:47 GMT -6
As an aside, If anyone knows of a good job where they appreciate hard workers with good pay, let me know. I do not.
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Post by LansingHawk on Dec 14, 2023 11:11:01 GMT -6
Just so you youngsters have something to look forward to... retirement is fucking awesome.
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Dec 14, 2023 13:41:29 GMT -6
Post by thunderhawk on Dec 14, 2023 13:41:29 GMT -6
I'm starting to hunt for jobs some. Tired of the ignorant game players; I can't handle the clout-chasing, need to be in the middle of everything, issue ignoring, accountability adverse, supposedly on top of things, types around me. I've never been more pissed at fellow managers who want their hands on it all, even if it doesn't pertain to them, but want zero accountability. "Oh hai, I reallllyyy want credit, but can I just ride everyone's coat tails and complicate things, then get upset when I'm called out and become directionless because people stop helping me pad my resume, because I literally start very fucking sentence with: 'not knowing a lot about this area'?"" One of the reasons I love coaching is because accountability is instant and ego is kept in check. You help the team or you watch from the sideline.
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Dec 14, 2023 15:57:33 GMT -6
Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 14, 2023 15:57:33 GMT -6
Guys…some day when I can break away with the laptop and get the website, I’ll type you an extensive update about the young man we hired to replace the other guy and how that’s going and the incredible bullshit I’m going through with the projects I’m working on. At this point I feel like antagonizing them to fire me. As an aside, If anyone knows of a good job where they appreciate hard workers with good pay, let me know. Oof, I feel partially culpable for this because I think I picked him but if I recall correctly the other choice was horrendous and chock full of red flags.
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Dec 18, 2023 12:45:39 GMT -6
Post by Ginger on Dec 18, 2023 12:45:39 GMT -6
Guys…some day when I can break away with the laptop and get the website, I’ll type you an extensive update about the young man we hired to replace the other guy and how that’s going and the incredible bullshit I’m going through with the projects I’m working on. At this point I feel like antagonizing them to fire me. As an aside, If anyone knows of a good job where they appreciate hard workers with good pay, let me know. If you see anything up your alley at Leidos, let me know. Lots of remote medically related jobs. What is "Leidos"?
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Dec 18, 2023 12:50:59 GMT -6
Post by Ginger on Dec 18, 2023 12:50:59 GMT -6
Guys…some day when I can break away with the laptop and get the website, I’ll type you an extensive update about the young man we hired to replace the other guy and how that’s going and the incredible bullshit I’m going through with the projects I’m working on. At this point I feel like antagonizing them to fire me. As an aside, If anyone knows of a good job where they appreciate hard workers with good pay, let me know. Oof, I feel partially culpable for this because I think I picked him but if I recall correctly the other choice was horrendous and chock full of red flags. My boss picked him. You're off the hook. There were only three applicants to start with. A woman from the San Francisco area. She would have been great but she wanted more than what she made there, and it was already substantially more than what I make. So they didn't agree. The second woman was from Illinois. She seemed fine in the interview but we couldn't check any of the references. The kid we hired worked in IT workstation support at my hospital for not quite a year and before that, Home Depot.
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Dec 18, 2023 13:25:11 GMT -6
Post by socal on Dec 18, 2023 13:25:11 GMT -6
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Post by Ginger on Dec 18, 2023 15:15:59 GMT -6
My work update. TL;DR Work is a shit show and I need a new job or to win the lottery.
So last December, they hired the 23-year-old and he started the middle of January. Until about mid to late March, my original work partner, Wade, came in and worked with him in the office. Normally, Wade worked from home. He lives almost an hour away so when the pandemic started, he started working from home and never came back unless he had to do equipment set up. He originally was going to retire the first of Jan but stayed to help train this guy and he switched to part time. He showed Adin a lot of things, mostly for the server things he managed and also the daily rote tasks that he did in the systems we manage. Then he went back to working from home for half days so was usually done by 11am. He would come in at 7 and that was the expectation with Adin as well. 7am to 3:30pm. I usually work 10-6 because when I used to come in at 8am, I still wouldn't be able to leave until 6 or later because of things happening at the end of the day, so I started later, and my boss was fine with that.
The part time thing was an issue with Wade not being available to help after 11am and I'm so busy, I was constantly being interrupted to help him. His rote tasks that he was supposed to do daily first thing in the morning would be put off until someone reminded him to do them. I'd ask "do you have this on your calendar? Written down somewhere?" Oh yes, he would say, and I would explain that by not doing this it was delaying patient care. Sometimes if people do not have a clinical background, they don't get that. To him it's just a task. To me, it's someone not getting an important result. He enters new users as well and can't seem to put those in correctly. I had to have Wade go through all of the users he entered to correct them. His big thing is he wants to be in charge of the servers...like that's somehow elite to him. There was a new cardiology application he wanted to be in charge of as well and I said no because his prime job was radiology, and he hasn't learned that yet. He is super needy. Always wanting to know if he did a good job. If I gave him an honest critique he would say "are you mad at me"? I am not a harsh person. I don't yell at people, and I constantly reminded myself that he was the same age as my youngest daughter and would try to handle him with kid gloves but after the tenth time you tell someone the same fucking thing and they say they'll try to do better and don't, it gets old. It also came out that he has ADHD. Fuck me. I deal with that at home. He also has his office in disarray. It became very dirty and cluttered once Wade stopped coming in. There's food and snacks everywhere on his desk and crumbs and garbage on the floor. He's awkward socially. He likes to give people a hard time but if they give it back, he gets angry or teary. A few people his age, women in my department, have taken to bullying him because he's easy to rile up. He complained early on about how much money he makes. I told him he was being ridiculous as most people in the US don't make half of what he's now making. He said "Well...he couldn't buy a house". I said you're 23 fucking years old. Eventually that will happen. He lives in an apartment that costs 1500/month with his roommate or partner. Based on his reference to his partner and his overly dramatic affect, I made an assumption he was gay.
That was confirmed in September when a friend from work had her annual fall party. I showed up with my youngest daughter that is the same age as Adin. When we got there, at around 6pm, there were already several people I work with passed out drunk. All of a sudden there's Adin and he was completely blasted and outside on the patio he's yelling "omg <ginger> is here and you know what? I'M GAY I'M GAY! I really like you. You're the best. You're my favorite coworker" "DID YOU KNOW I'M GAY!" I'm like yeah...I knew and exchanging glances with other people at the party like, wow... So for the rest of the evening, I heard some variation of that every single time he saw me, which was a lot. At one point I was trying to hide from him behind a short wall by the bar in my friend's basement, but he found me and started going on again about being gay. I said again, I know, and I don't care. He says.... how did you know? I said for one reason, no straight guy refers to his wife or girlfriend as their partner...and other behavioral things he does. Then he proceeds to tell me that his partner is trans. So, I don't know if the "woman" that occasionally comes to his office to talk and that is growing a beard is his partner or just some other "friend". He's never introduced me. The night ended with him getting in an argument with my friends' son, who is also about 23 years. That kid is MAGA and he had a bunch of friends over for the party as well (this is not in Rochester but a small town 15 miles away) and was being gracious putting up with Adin telling everyone he was gay but when he mentioned his trans partner, this other kid told him his partner was a pedophile. Well, that sent Adin over the top and he wanted to fight this guy and he was alternately yelling and crying, and this other kid just kept telling him to go away. Finally, my daughter got him to go outside. She has several gay and trans friends and seemed to know how to handle him. My friend got his car keys and his phone, and they ended up calling his mom to come get him because he was in no shape to drive. His parents picked him up. The following Monday he acted like what happened was no big deal.
By then Wade had decided he wasn't going to work until the end of the year and was going to quit for good at the end of September. And he did.
We are in the process of trying to update one of our imaging applications and trying to update over 100 servers to server 2019, as well as other applications. We also are trying to implement a replacement for the current radiology information system with epic's system. I am key to that project as I am the only person that truly manages the system we have now and understands the translations that will be needed. I have to constantly be on meetings for the epic system, run reports for DB information and answer all the questions for the people that will be managing the new system. Meanwhile with the imaging system I manage, I am trying to build our new one and test, train and come up workflows and procedures but I can never ever get to that because of all the daily support I do that takes most of my day, and the epic stuff I'm always doing. We were supposed to go live with the image system last month but until I can test, that isn't happening.
Also still babysitting the new guy who has almost been here a year and I still have to remind him to do his job. I frequently find him in his office, looking at his phone, or on the internet on his pc with a quick close screen when I come in, or playing with some little fantasy geek cards that he always brings to work. He also has no fucking stamina. He complains about being tired; he's up late gaming or who knows what and he wants to come in late like me. I said nope. You're the early person. He already switched his hours to 8am instead of 7. Some days he says he's going to work from home in case he gets called at night. We take call but are rarely called and it usually takes 10 minutes to fix stuff. I am at work until 8-9pm trying to keep up and have worked weekends. I finally told my boss that this is ridiculous I can't keep doing this. The date for the epic rad go live is in July and the radiology dept wasn't consulted if that was a good time. The IT director and CIO know we are trying to do all of these other radiology projects and our upgraded imaging system has to be done before we can test future state with epic. I recently mentioned that at a meeting the IT director was at and that caused a shit storm of fallout as they haven't picked up on that at other meetings. The IT director and CIO are two women that have been there slightly longer than I have, and they don't like me. From early beginnings from when I first brought my RIS system live, almost 20 years ago, when one worked in billing and the other was an LPN switching to Clinical informatics, they have had some issue with me. Not sure exactly what it is but any chance they get to scapegoat me they will. They got after my boss and my boss's boss. My boss has tried to explain that we have too many projects going on and that they need to move the epic date, but they won't because epic will charge them a financial penalty for that. I asked my boss if he know how much the financial penalty was because if I walked out right now, they would not be able to make that date. He didn't know.
We have 3-4 vendors that interface with our current system that have to be switched to epic and they all have their own issues with resources that can get new test systems running. Of course, this all should have been figured out as part of the entire project before a date was set but I don't think they realized how complicated it was, even though I kept telling them that. As I told my boss, I have been managing all aspects of multiple systems for years along with Wade with the servers and have done it well so there's never been issues that we needed their assistance with. I think they think its like some unsophisticated toy system or something. They are mad now and making my boss commit to unrealistic dates in early January. I'm supposed to submit some daily report of everything I've worked on to prove I'm trying, and get stuff tested here in December.
So...I have 77 hours of vacation to burn before Jan 15 or I lose it, so I took this week off, part of next week and still need a few more days in January. I found out they weren't happy I was off. Oh well.
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Dec 18, 2023 18:39:03 GMT -6
Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 18, 2023 18:39:03 GMT -6
My work update. TL;DR Work is a shit show and I need a new job or to win the lottery. So last December, they hired the 23-year-old and he started the middle of January. Until about mid to late March, my original work partner, Wade, came in and worked with him in the office. Normally, Wade worked from home. He lives almost an hour away so when the pandemic started, he started working from home and never came back unless he had to do equipment set up. He originally was going to retire the first of Jan but stayed to help train this guy and he switched to part time. He showed Adin a lot of things, mostly for the server things he managed and also the daily rote tasks that he did in the systems we manage. Then he went back to working from home for half days so was usually done by 11am. He would come in at 7 and that was the expectation with Adin as well. 7am to 3:30pm. I usually work 10-6 because when I used to come in at 8am, I still wouldn't be able to leave until 6 or later because of things happening at the end of the day, so I started later, and my boss was fine with that. The part time thing was an issue with Wade not being available to help after 11am and I'm so busy, I was constantly being interrupted to help him. His rote tasks that he was supposed to do daily first thing in the morning would be put off until someone reminded him to do them. I'd ask "do you have this on your calendar? Written down somewhere?" Oh yes, he would say, and I would explain that by not doing this it was delaying patient care. Sometimes if people do not have a clinical background, they don't get that. To him it's just a task. To me, it's someone not getting an important result. He enters new users as well and can't seem to put those in correctly. I had to have Wade go through all of the users he entered to correct them. His big thing is he wants to be in charge of the servers...like that's somehow elite to him. There was a new cardiology application he wanted to be in charge of as well and I said no because his prime job was radiology, and he hasn't learned that yet. He is super needy. Always wanting to know if he did a good job. If I gave him an honest critique he would say "are you mad at me"? I am not a harsh person. I don't yell at people, and I constantly reminded myself that he was the same age as my youngest daughter and would try to handle him with kid gloves but after the tenth time you tell someone the same fucking thing and they say they'll try to do better and don't, it gets old. It also came out that he has ADHD. Fuck me. I deal with that at home. He also has his office in disarray. It became very dirty and cluttered once Wade stopped coming in. There's food and snacks everywhere on his desk and crumbs and garbage on the floor. He's awkward socially. He likes to give people a hard time but if they give it back, he gets angry or teary. A few people his age, women in my department, have taken to bullying him because he's easy to rile up. He complained early on about how much money he makes. I told him he was being ridiculous as most people in the US don't make half of what he's now making. He said "Well...he couldn't buy a house". I said you're 23 fucking years old. Eventually that will happen. He lives in an apartment that costs 1500/month with his roommate or partner. Based on his reference to his partner and his overly dramatic affect, I made an assumption he was gay. That was confirmed in September when a friend from work had her annual fall party. I showed up with my youngest daughter that is the same age as Adin. When we got there, at around 6pm, there were already several people I work with passed out drunk. All of a sudden there's Adin and he was completely blasted and outside on the patio he's yelling "omg <ginger> is here and you know what? I'M GAY I'M GAY! I really like you. You're the best. You're my favorite coworker" "DID YOU KNOW I'M GAY!" I'm like yeah...I knew and exchanging glances with other people at the party like, wow... So for the rest of the evening, I heard some variation of that every single time he saw me, which was a lot. At one point I was trying to hide from him behind a short wall by the bar in my friend's basement, but he found me and started going on again about being gay. I said again, I know, and I don't care. He says.... how did you know? I said for one reason, no straight guy refers to his wife or girlfriend as their partner...and other behavioral things he does. Then he proceeds to tell me that his partner is trans. So, I don't know if the "woman" that occasionally comes to his office to talk and that is growing a beard is his partner or just some other "friend". He's never introduced me. The night ended with him getting in an argument with my friends' son, who is also about 23 years. That kid is MAGA and he had a bunch of friends over for the party as well (this is not in Rochester but a small town 15 miles away) and was being gracious putting up with Adin telling everyone he was gay but when he mentioned his trans partner, this other kid told him his partner was a pedophile. Well, that sent Adin over the top and he wanted to fight this guy and he was alternately yelling and crying, and this other kid just kept telling him to go away. Finally, my daughter got him to go outside. She has several gay and trans friends and seemed to know how to handle him. My friend got his car keys and his phone, and they ended up calling his mom to come get him because he was in no shape to drive. His parents picked him up. The following Monday he acted like what happened was no big deal. By then Wade had decided he wasn't going to work until the end of the year and was going to quit for good at the end of September. And he did. We are in the process of trying to update one of our imaging applications and trying to update over 100 servers to server 2019, as well as other applications. We also are trying to implement a replacement for the current radiology information system with epic's system. I am key to that project as I am the only person that truly manages the system we have now and understands the translations that will be needed. I have to constantly be on meetings for the epic system, run reports for DB information and answer all the questions for the people that will be managing the new system. Meanwhile with the imaging system I manage, I am trying to build our new one and test, train and come up workflows and procedures but I can never ever get to that because of all the daily support I do that takes most of my day, and the epic stuff I'm always doing. We were supposed to go live with the image system last month but until I can test, that isn't happening. Also still babysitting the new guy who has almost been here a year and I still have to remind him to do his job. I frequently find him in his office, looking at his phone, or on the internet on his pc with a quick close screen when I come in, or playing with some little fantasy geek cards that he always brings to work. He also has no fucking stamina. He complains about being tired; he's up late gaming or who knows what and he wants to come in late like me. I said nope. You're the early person. He already switched his hours to 8am instead of 7. Some days he says he's going to work from home in case he gets called at night. We take call but are rarely called and it usually takes 10 minutes to fix stuff. I am at work until 8-9pm trying to keep up and have worked weekends. I finally told my boss that this is ridiculous I can't keep doing this. The date for the epic rad go live is in July and the radiology dept wasn't consulted if that was a good time. The IT director and CIO know we are trying to do all of these other radiology projects and our upgraded imaging system has to be done before we can test future state with epic. I recently mentioned that at a meeting the IT director was at and that caused a shit storm of fallout as they haven't picked up on that at other meetings. The IT director and CIO are two women that have been there slightly longer than I have, and they don't like me. From early beginnings from when I first brought my RIS system live, almost 20 years ago, when one worked in billing and the other was an LPN switching to Clinical informatics, they have had some issue with me. Not sure exactly what it is but any chance they get to scapegoat me they will. They got after my boss and my boss's boss. My boss has tried to explain that we have too many projects going on and that they need to move the epic date, but they won't because epic will charge them a financial penalty for that. I asked my boss if he know how much the financial penalty was because if I walked out right now, they would not be able to make that date. He didn't know. We have 3-4 vendors that interface with our current system that have to be switched to epic and they all have their own issues with resources that can get new test systems running. Of course, this all should have been figured out as part of the entire project before a date was set but I don't think they realized how complicated it was, even though I kept telling them that. As I told my boss, I have been managing all aspects of multiple systems for years along with Wade with the servers and have done it well so there's never been issues that we needed their assistance with. I think they think its like some unsophisticated toy system or something. They are mad now and making my boss commit to unrealistic dates in early January. I'm supposed to submit some daily report of everything I've worked on to prove I'm trying, and get stuff tested here in December. So...I have 77 hours of vacation to burn before Jan 15 or I lose it, so I took this week off, part of next week and still need a few more days in January. I found out they weren't happy I was off. Oh well. Babe, I've been bullshitting with you for well over a decade and this story makes my god damned blood boil. I will say the same thing now that I said when you did that system integration thing - you need to leave there. Now when I say this I am not calling you old or attacking you in any way, but you are too old to put up with that shit. You literally have to fucking leave. The shit they are putting you through is what you put some 31 year old man whose wife just had a baby through, the guy who you know can't leave. You can fuck that guy over, he can't do shit, you work him too hard to be able to do an interview and then you give him some limpdick bonus and say "well at least you got to keep your job." I'm not joking, you have to fucking leave. Have you attained financial independence yet? I'd find what days they have those deadlines set for and then take your vacation in the days leading up to them. Fuck these people. I don't even know them but I could point them out in a police lineup and I fucking hate them. I manage people and I eat every single shit sandwich alongside them. The people you work with don't and that is why they have no idea what you do and how much you put into it. The people I work with would run through a god damned brick wall for me because they know I would do the same for them. The people who supervise you do not respect you in the least and you have got to fucking reciprocate. It's really hard for us Iowa folks to do because we were raised with such a god damned strong moral code but we operate in a world where many people do not share that moral code. Some do, and when they see it in others they get motivated, but the world is just full of grifters and charlatans. We're coming off a gigantic bubble and bull market, for the love of god tell me you are sitting on a motherfucking kessef of cash and can just tell them to fuck off. Please.
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Work
Dec 18, 2023 18:48:34 GMT -6
Post by LansingHawk on Dec 18, 2023 18:48:34 GMT -6
My work update. TL;DR Work is a shit show and I need a new job or to win the lottery. So last December, they hired the 23-year-old and he started the middle of January. Until about mid to late March, my original work partner, Wade, came in and worked with him in the office. Normally, Wade worked from home. He lives almost an hour away so when the pandemic started, he started working from home and never came back unless he had to do equipment set up. He originally was going to retire the first of Jan but stayed to help train this guy and he switched to part time. He showed Adin a lot of things, mostly for the server things he managed and also the daily rote tasks that he did in the systems we manage. Then he went back to working from home for half days so was usually done by 11am. He would come in at 7 and that was the expectation with Adin as well. 7am to 3:30pm. I usually work 10-6 because when I used to come in at 8am, I still wouldn't be able to leave until 6 or later because of things happening at the end of the day, so I started later, and my boss was fine with that. The part time thing was an issue with Wade not being available to help after 11am and I'm so busy, I was constantly being interrupted to help him. His rote tasks that he was supposed to do daily first thing in the morning would be put off until someone reminded him to do them. I'd ask "do you have this on your calendar? Written down somewhere?" Oh yes, he would say, and I would explain that by not doing this it was delaying patient care. Sometimes if people do not have a clinical background, they don't get that. To him it's just a task. To me, it's someone not getting an important result. He enters new users as well and can't seem to put those in correctly. I had to have Wade go through all of the users he entered to correct them. His big thing is he wants to be in charge of the servers...like that's somehow elite to him. There was a new cardiology application he wanted to be in charge of as well and I said no because his prime job was radiology, and he hasn't learned that yet. He is super needy. Always wanting to know if he did a good job. If I gave him an honest critique he would say "are you mad at me"? I am not a harsh person. I don't yell at people, and I constantly reminded myself that he was the same age as my youngest daughter and would try to handle him with kid gloves but after the tenth time you tell someone the same fucking thing and they say they'll try to do better and don't, it gets old. It also came out that he has ADHD. Fuck me. I deal with that at home. He also has his office in disarray. It became very dirty and cluttered once Wade stopped coming in. There's food and snacks everywhere on his desk and crumbs and garbage on the floor. He's awkward socially. He likes to give people a hard time but if they give it back, he gets angry or teary. A few people his age, women in my department, have taken to bullying him because he's easy to rile up. He complained early on about how much money he makes. I told him he was being ridiculous as most people in the US don't make half of what he's now making. He said "Well...he couldn't buy a house". I said you're 23 fucking years old. Eventually that will happen. He lives in an apartment that costs 1500/month with his roommate or partner. Based on his reference to his partner and his overly dramatic affect, I made an assumption he was gay. That was confirmed in September when a friend from work had her annual fall party. I showed up with my youngest daughter that is the same age as Adin. When we got there, at around 6pm, there were already several people I work with passed out drunk. All of a sudden there's Adin and he was completely blasted and outside on the patio he's yelling "omg <ginger> is here and you know what? I'M GAY I'M GAY! I really like you. You're the best. You're my favorite coworker" "DID YOU KNOW I'M GAY!" I'm like yeah...I knew and exchanging glances with other people at the party like, wow... So for the rest of the evening, I heard some variation of that every single time he saw me, which was a lot. At one point I was trying to hide from him behind a short wall by the bar in my friend's basement, but he found me and started going on again about being gay. I said again, I know, and I don't care. He says.... how did you know? I said for one reason, no straight guy refers to his wife or girlfriend as their partner...and other behavioral things he does. Then he proceeds to tell me that his partner is trans. So, I don't know if the "woman" that occasionally comes to his office to talk and that is growing a beard is his partner or just some other "friend". He's never introduced me. The night ended with him getting in an argument with my friends' son, who is also about 23 years. That kid is MAGA and he had a bunch of friends over for the party as well (this is not in Rochester but a small town 15 miles away) and was being gracious putting up with Adin telling everyone he was gay but when he mentioned his trans partner, this other kid told him his partner was a pedophile. Well, that sent Adin over the top and he wanted to fight this guy and he was alternately yelling and crying, and this other kid just kept telling him to go away. Finally, my daughter got him to go outside. She has several gay and trans friends and seemed to know how to handle him. My friend got his car keys and his phone, and they ended up calling his mom to come get him because he was in no shape to drive. His parents picked him up. The following Monday he acted like what happened was no big deal. By then Wade had decided he wasn't going to work until the end of the year and was going to quit for good at the end of September. And he did. We are in the process of trying to update one of our imaging applications and trying to update over 100 servers to server 2019, as well as other applications. We also are trying to implement a replacement for the current radiology information system with epic's system. I am key to that project as I am the only person that truly manages the system we have now and understands the translations that will be needed. I have to constantly be on meetings for the epic system, run reports for DB information and answer all the questions for the people that will be managing the new system. Meanwhile with the imaging system I manage, I am trying to build our new one and test, train and come up workflows and procedures but I can never ever get to that because of all the daily support I do that takes most of my day, and the epic stuff I'm always doing. We were supposed to go live with the image system last month but until I can test, that isn't happening. Also still babysitting the new guy who has almost been here a year and I still have to remind him to do his job. I frequently find him in his office, looking at his phone, or on the internet on his pc with a quick close screen when I come in, or playing with some little fantasy geek cards that he always brings to work. He also has no fucking stamina. He complains about being tired; he's up late gaming or who knows what and he wants to come in late like me. I said nope. You're the early person. He already switched his hours to 8am instead of 7. Some days he says he's going to work from home in case he gets called at night. We take call but are rarely called and it usually takes 10 minutes to fix stuff. I am at work until 8-9pm trying to keep up and have worked weekends. I finally told my boss that this is ridiculous I can't keep doing this. The date for the epic rad go live is in July and the radiology dept wasn't consulted if that was a good time. The IT director and CIO know we are trying to do all of these other radiology projects and our upgraded imaging system has to be done before we can test future state with epic. I recently mentioned that at a meeting the IT director was at and that caused a shit storm of fallout as they haven't picked up on that at other meetings. The IT director and CIO are two women that have been there slightly longer than I have, and they don't like me. From early beginnings from when I first brought my RIS system live, almost 20 years ago, when one worked in billing and the other was an LPN switching to Clinical informatics, they have had some issue with me. Not sure exactly what it is but any chance they get to scapegoat me they will. They got after my boss and my boss's boss. My boss has tried to explain that we have too many projects going on and that they need to move the epic date, but they won't because epic will charge them a financial penalty for that. I asked my boss if he know how much the financial penalty was because if I walked out right now, they would not be able to make that date. He didn't know. We have 3-4 vendors that interface with our current system that have to be switched to epic and they all have their own issues with resources that can get new test systems running. Of course, this all should have been figured out as part of the entire project before a date was set but I don't think they realized how complicated it was, even though I kept telling them that. As I told my boss, I have been managing all aspects of multiple systems for years along with Wade with the servers and have done it well so there's never been issues that we needed their assistance with. I think they think its like some unsophisticated toy system or something. They are mad now and making my boss commit to unrealistic dates in early January. I'm supposed to submit some daily report of everything I've worked on to prove I'm trying, and get stuff tested here in December. So...I have 77 hours of vacation to burn before Jan 15 or I lose it, so I took this week off, part of next week and still need a few more days in January. I found out they weren't happy I was off. Oh well. Babe, I've been bullshitting with you for well over a decade and this story makes my god damned blood boil. I will say the same thing now that I said when you did that system integration thing - you need to leave there. Now when I say this I am not calling you old or attacking you in any way, but you are too old to put up with that shit. You literally have to fucking leave. The shit they are putting you through is what you put some 31 year old man whose wife just had a baby through, the guy who you know can't leave. You can fuck that guy over, he can't do shit, you work him too hard to be able to do an interview and then you give him some limpdick bonus and say "well at least you got to keep your job." I'm not joking, you have to fucking leave. Have you attained financial independence yet? I'd find what days they have those deadlines set for and then take your vacation in the days leading up to them. Fuck these people. I don't even know them but I could point them out in a police lineup and I fucking hate them. I manage people and I eat every single shit sandwich alongside them. The people you work with don't and that is why they have no idea what you do and how much you put into it. The people I work with would run through a god damned brick wall for me because they know I would do the same for them. The people who supervise you do not respect you in the least and you have got to fucking reciprocate. It's really hard for us Iowa folks to do because we were raised with such a god damned strong moral code but we operate in a world where many people do not share that moral code. Some do, and when they see it in others they get motivated, but the world is just full of grifters and charlatans. We're coming off a gigantic bubble and bull market, for the love of god tell me you are sitting on a motherfucking kessef of cash and can just tell them to fuck off. Please. What he said. It's just not worth it. Make sure you use up all that vacation time first though.
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