Fucking my boss owns 2 different restaurants, she comes in one day and has some stuff for us in a bag. Calls me over to her and tell me why she hands me like 5 pieces of dollar store chocolate and told me thank you for working so hard before going to the next employee…
I don’t care. I’m here for a few short years. I’m going to choose to enjoy the good things in life instead of moaning. Like a cold glass of water on a hot day, or a piece of cheese.
Said the rat
Edit: made a shitty meme lol
Enjoy the water while it’s good for drinking, available from the ever-depleting water tables, able to be cooled by whatever refrigerant used, and cold enough to counter the temperatures of the ever-growing heatwaves
So this comment sparked a rant I have bottled up
District heating is objectively the best possible method for heating a town or city. The power plant rejects heat at like 70-150⁰C at the final stage as waste heat. Instead of using that to fucking evaporate water or to heat a lake/river you heat up water and circulate that around town and heat everyone’s place for a literal rounding error.
Little do most people know, you can actually do cooling with heat.
Yes I know, it sounds impossible.
Basically certain compounds absorb heat when you mix them with water. LiBr and ammonia are two types of absorption coolants that can make chilled water.
To regenerate the coolant after you added water to it, you heat the solution up. You can use any heat source for this provided it’s hot enough and you have enough of it.
Therefore, you could make district chillers to also cool a town using waste heat. You could even run these off of renewables, especially if you paired it with a big dumb tank filled with soapstone sand and nichrome heaters. Now you can take renewable abundance and turn it into high grade heat for district heating and cooling.
The stories here are crazy.
I’ve seen it (not personally, but observing) at the higher end of paid professionals too, like doctors/dentists. Outstanding work, treated like cogs, squeezed harder and harder. In one instance, the local monopoly who bought their group out literally committed fraud.
Come to think of it, everyone I’ve known working corporate got screwed.
…Feels like things can’t go on like this.
I worked hard until I got my dream job at a Fortune 500 company. I would have been perfectly happy doing that job for literally the rest of my life.
Then the accounting department took over the company, and started making decisions, and the next thing we know, our company had slipped from being in 1st place for 25 years, to fourth out of five major corporations in that industry.
The result was thousands list their jobs, including me. Not because I did a bad job, or because I had an attitude problem, etc. It was all because other people totally fucked up, and I paid the price.
So I thought “If I would work that hard to make someone else wealthy, and still get tossed out, why couldn’t I do that for myself?” So I started my own business, and I’ve never looked back. That was 30 years ago, and it hasn’t been easy. I never got rich, but I also never have to take orders from an incompetent middle manager, never have my work or credit stolen, my income is in my hands not some corporation’s, I can make my own schedule, wake up when I want, and nobody can fire me.
If you can’t get someone to hire you, hire yourself.
This reads like capitalist propaganda
Too bad there isn’t anything else to do but keep going like this until it ends the world.
This seems to have become the pizza party story repository, so I’ll contribute mine:
Late-scheduled all-hands call at a large, publicly-traded company. The stock price had just taken a big dip. “Lots to be hopeful about,” says Senior Executive VP of VPing Dipshit McGee, specifically citing a thing I personally built and how happy the (G1000) client was with it. My entire team except one guy get caught in the layoffs the following week. Fucking idiots. It’s been over 10 years and I still check in on them every once in a while when I need a good schadenfreude hit. Stock price a tenth what it was when I left, lol. De-listed from the NYSE, lmfao. Parted out by vulture capital, 💀.
I did a massive project back five or so years ago. Put in a lot of work, and since the work is something I’ve done for 20 years, the work was flawless.
I got a one time bonus.
The same year I didn’t get a cost of living increase. And every year I did get one since then, it’s been half or less of inflation.
Everyone is treated this way at my company. They recently installed AI-based Spyware on all computers that takes regular pictures of the screens and monitors all clicks and mouse movements. I guess everyone is demotivated, so this is how they are handling that. Few people know about this, it was done secretly.
I will never work hard for these people again. I don’t think I could even if I did try at this point. There’s zero trust, and a pattern of exploitation.
Same. Had a supplier unexpectedly close down. The company makes medical devices, and the design on some components was quite old. We’re talking hand drawn designs, no CAD files. I got new sourcing for roughly 500 components. Long hours, saved the company from having any production stoppages. I busted my ass and kept the multi-million dollar per day revenue generation production line going. As a thank you for my efforts, I got some points equivalent to like $500 on a company incentive site where you can get gift cards and shitty TVs and household goods. Annual review came up. 2.5% raise. Fuck right off.
The moral of this story is clear: if you’re given an opportunity to save the company, first ask yourself whether it would save you.
100% agree
As a thank you for my efforts, I got some points equivalent to like $500 on a company incentive site where you can get gift cards and shitty TVs and household goods.
This sounds like a parody you’d see in fiction, but here we are.
I bet the poor souls who made that site were underpaid, too.
Cuck. Except the cuck gets a chair.
Maybe the company incentive site has them?
They cost $501.
Good job not being a mark again!
Well, yeah if you’re gonna grind hard do it for yourself. Do the bare minimum at work to get your paycheck then grind hard on a side gig where you get the profits.
Me and Marcus probably have very different lives, but that’s basically the same exact thing that happened to me.
When your in IT and they plain text their financials yeah no guilt here
I literally saved my company twice. We were a small company providing contract programmers to a huge cable company (rhymes with Bombast), producing their mobile apps for them for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. When I started, we had just lost the Android gig because of the sheer ineptness of our offshore team (ironically enough, the gig was given to InfoSys who managed to do an even worse job). We were about to be shitcanned completely because we unable to produce a working TV guide-type application for Blackberry, thanks to the fact that no built-in control for Blackberry was able to handle a moving grid like a TV guide app requires. I produced probably the best mobile app I’ve ever written because I had experience with using Graphics classes for Java and was able to write an entirely owner-drawn control for this.
Unfortunately this was in 2011 as Blackberry was going through its death throes, so this really achieved nothing other than making Bombast want to keep paying us to stay around. A year later we faced getting shitcanned again because we were way behind schedule on the iOS app, thanks to an estimate that I had nothing to do with (our company very intelligently never involved actual programmers in these schedule estimates). I spent an entire week literally living in the Bombast building, coding all day and most of the night, sleeping a couple of hours a night in my George Costanza setup underneath my cubicle desk. We barely made the release schedule and Bombast kept us on again. The vulture capitalist who originally funded us had been ready to stop operations and fire everybody for some time, but this was put on hold.
Shortly after this, we were acquired by a west coast tech giant and us programmers were all laid off. The C-suite got millions in stock options, and I got … a very nice letter of reference when I applied for my school bus driver job. I’m thankful at least that I never had to deal with AI.
Exactly you didn’t do them a single favor, they would have gladly let the company shut down and move on to the next scam. If anything by working incredibly hard and creatively, you just made it a little awkward for them. “Wdym comcast isn’t firing us? That kid saved the contract?? But I already started on the next scam!”
Im in a similar position we’ve been borderline bankrupt for two years now and everyone above me is less concerned that I am because i work with the hourly people and don’t want them to lose their jobs. The ceo is really like ambivalent if it’s better to keep the company going. This is one of several businesses he’s involved in and the $300K salary is just walking around money for him.
Such a mark.
When I first graduated, I worked for a series of small start-up companies. Most of them ended up failing, which is normal for a small company. But, at least when I was working hard there I was given stock options so if the company had done well, I could have shared in the success.
I’ve always wondered why that isn’t more common. I guess the answer is that some people are willing to work really hard even if they’re not given a slice of the ownership of the company. I never understood that. If I own part of this startup, I’ll work hard to make sure it succeeds because then I’ll get rich too. If you’re just paying me a salary, I’m fulfilling the terms of my contract and that’s it.
I’ve always wondered why that isn’t more common.
Because if the owner has capital he’ll keep all the profits and pay you as little cash as possible. Startups are usually run by younger people with not as much cash so they have to offer options to get people to work for them.
I can understand why an owner wouldn’t want to give away small parts of their company. What I don’t understand is why some people are willing to work as if they were part-owners when they’re just on salary. In a lot of start ups, the amount of extra effort people put in when they get options means the options easily pay for themselves.
Well, i enjoy data analytics for one so it doesn’t matter how much you pay me or don’t, when I do it, i do it to the best of my ability. But second, yeah id rather just take the cash salary and invest it in a sp500 index. Especially if it’s a startup, nine times out of ten those options are just worthless, like paying your employees in lottery tickets. For every google story there are a thousand startups that just die in two years.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
I saved a hotel chain millions during an outage. I got $1,000 bonus.
The second time, I got a pat on the back and no raise that year.
Fuck corporations
When my huge, multinational company announced one year of total grind for everyone, they said there would be rewards to make up for it.
Fast forward one year and the #1 top performer received… a diner with the CEO. And nothing else.
I wish I was joking.I’d consider it rewarding to have him alone for that long, but not for the reasons they did.
And this is why you should always consider any bonus structure that isn’t in writing to be completely worthless. If it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen.
CEO probably has main character syndrome is he thinks his presence is enough of a prize.
At always was a scam.
We should start co-ops, and spread them out, to save everyone!
Ah yes, my leadership told us we’d all be managers.
A few months back, over half my team was laid off instead. They’re now replacing everyone with AI.
Technically, they’re managing to stay alive without a job now.
Would be funny if the CEO got the shits later.
Yeah cause they put eye drops in their water.
Bonuses are bullshit because they don’t touch your salary, and they get taxed extra. When I got mine, I was far more insulted than happy. Same situation as you, they didn’t give me a raise that year.
Where do they get taxed extra? To my understanding, it’s considered regular income in Canada and the US.
The US handles it in an incredibly stupid way. Bonuses typically get a larger amount withheld as tax and the government pays you back when you calculate your total income at the end of the year.
I can’t even enumerate the times I’ve saved my company from turning into dust
I was the single person responsible to ensure our database had no issues deploying by writing end to end tests that used real workflows, guess what ? surprise ! lots of database locking issues, issues with database transactions, issues with the application straight up crashing.
Fixed that days before our live deployment to a handshake.
TBH eventually they did give me a huge raise and at the moment of writing this I do think I’m being paid accordingly, but back then I was like damn shit is cringe.
Just give us more of the value for your one existence on earth, surely we’ll be more generous and not take as much value as possible, like we’ve done at every previous opportunity. Just work harder slave…
So true, I worked hard, received recognition and praise. Got the exact same pay raise as those who did the minimum. The management all received substantial raises and huge bonuses for the work that they didn’t do. Not anymore unless there is clear promotions, raises, or bonuses for work done I am just the minimum guy now on.
I’m in the same boat. Years of 1-2% pay raises have been given in blanket form to my entire team, regardless of performance.
Every time we get these, inflation is higher, so we’re actually losing money every year.
I have one of these moments at every job. I always start overachieving, then something happens that turns me into a minimum effort employee.
At my last job I saved the company while working 70 hour weeks during crunch time, then on my performance review my boss blasted me for not being willing to work overtime, despite me having proof of his boss thanking me for all the overtime. When I objected he removed it and added three more false bad things instead.
At the previous job, I volunteered to come it at midnight to help the inspector process some units coming in late which needed to be shipped out by 2am. In a meeting of upper managers and me, I was congratulated for going above and beyond, and my direct manager said “Don’t thank him, he only did as he was required by his role.”
Brah, what a bunch of dicks. Hope you didn’t stay for much longer after these events.
Longer than I should have, unfortunately.
