I quite like this little existential quandary:
I removed all other columns that may have existed...
I quite like this little existential quandary:
I removed all other columns that may have existed...
@DOA said:
I think the only way these people will learn is if we start hooking up bombs to G sensors and wrapping them in packages with "fragile" stickers on them.
@The_Assimilator said:
In summary, I've made it crystal clear to management that they can either find me alternative work in the company, or they can have my resignation. Given my sob story above, do you think I'm being fair, or am I acting like a spoiled child?
I guess it kind of depends on how big a deal it is for your management that you, as opposed to someone else, or nobody, goes. If they really want you to go, use it as an opportunity to squeeze whatever you want out of them - get written promises that, if you go and, as you predict, it makes no difference, then they'll start listening to you and following up on your suggestions. Get a pay rise. Get some kind of guarantee that if you do this one thing for them this time, that it will be worth your while later. Possibly you go, and it does actually improve things - in which case, great (unlikely, I know), or you go and it makes no difference but hopefully now management will keep their side of the deal, and things get better, or they don't, and you're in a no-worse position, except that you've had a very minor inconvenience (and it is very minor) of being away from home for 2 weeks.
You've got a potentially very valuable bargaining chip, if you just flat out refuse, or go looking for another job, that bargaining chip is completely wasted. If you compromise, hopefully you'll get something out of the deal, and management will probably see you as a great team player, rather than a petulant child who made things really difficult for them by refusing to go and see a client for a couple of weeks. If you're really lucky, they'll take on-board that you're not happy, see your winning attitude and maybe decide that you're ready for a promotion...
This may be a stupid question, but in NZ aren't free call numbers free from public payphones?
Well, 27 employees for:
http://stackoverflow.com/about/team
C*O x 3
Software Engineer x 12
Sysadmin x 2
Generic manager-y sounding titles x 4
Generic sales-y sounding title x 5
Designer x 1
I don't think that's so ridiculous, is it?
9 hours (OK 8 hours and 60 minutes) sleep!!! What are you, some kind of King?
How do they know how big the receipts are? I thought they weren't printing...?
@barc0de said:
Institutionaly unethical behavior is a different kettle of fish. A colleague once had a job for a recruitment firm, where he would call companies whose temp contracts had recently ended. He would ask for the temp by name, pretending to be thier next of kin (which they had on file). If the temp answered they would bill and fine the company for hiring the person without the agencys permission.I had just been made redundant when I got the job working with Vicki, and I only worked directly under her for a few months when i became a pawn in a managerial power struggle that resulted in me not being answerable to her any more.
That reminds me of a lovely recruitment agent not so long ago, who called me up and chatted about various opportunities he had, as they do, with me wanting him to either get to the point or go away. I was looking for work, so couldn't be as rude as I usually would, and ended up (foolishly) mentioning that I'd had an interview with [company x], he finished up the call promising to email me a bunch of job specs to look at.
Half an hour later I had a call from the agent who had forwarded me to [company x] asking whether I'd just called them up - it turned out the first agent had called [company x], given my name and asked to speak to the CTO, with questions about my second interview. Fortunately he was put through to the same HR bod who had interviewed me, who had also told me that it was a 1 stage interview process, and recognised that he was just a scumbag. I can't imagine what he was really hoping to acheive - if he'd been put through to the CTO, what would he have said? "Oh, actually, no, I just remembered, I'm not a prospective candidate at all, I'm a recruitment agent; need any staff?"
Grr.
@bjolling said:
@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:Some people don't seem to be sensitive to noise, though - I've worked with people who were doing exactly the same job as me, and they saw no problem with a working environment I found very hard to work in. I'm not sure if they're better at blocking it out, or just that they can do meaningful work in short bursts where I need to concentrate for a decent period to get anything useful done - I spend the first few minutes after an interruption (when I'm really thinking about something) getting my head round everything again, and then spend another few minutes going over the last few minutes' work.I recently saw a documentary about this. Apparently extravert people need external stimulants (like office noises) to help them concentrate, while introvert people prefer quiet surroudings.
That makes some kind of sense I guess - I'm not remotely fussed about noise (hence my confusion about the OP's description), I think because I'm good at filtering it out. Perhaps sort of related to the fact that I can sleep anywhere... I wonder if the people who like it quiet to work also need silence and dark to sleep? But then I wouldn't say I was particularly extroverted... maybe a little more extroverted than a 'typical'(?) developer though.
I'll stop wasting your time not really saying anything now, and get on with going to work :)
@locallunatic said:
My question is why you were assisting this person in many of these snippets. Couldn't you simply refuse to assist (such as with the email, or the suggestion of calling from traffic) and let her incompetence get her caught?
Also... if it was a 'secret affair', and you knew about it, surely that means you were the married developer? Hmm... :P
I must be missing something, but that sounds like a relatively normal office layout to me... What are you saying is wrong with it? The fact that you were in the same room as tech support? Or that you were all in one room, instead of cubicles?