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For years now I’ve been thinking about petitioning parliament to pass a law requiring job postings to come with pay range. What do people think about this and how would we go about it? Anyone interested in joining a movement to fight for this?

I lead a team in a relatively modern role. This role is so new at my org that there’s no one in management with direct past experience in that role. My org has standing rules that establish minimum seniority level to be on an interview panel along with the composition of the panel and a cap on how many people in total can be on a panel. All taken together, a small set of people are allowed onto interview panel in our tech division.

As team lead, I don’t meet any of the criteria and no one on my team does. so I’m not allowed anywhere near my own candidates throughout the recruitment process. Consequently, recruiting for my team is always a coin toss. I don’t know who I am getting and their actual competence for the day to day job of my team. I have to deal with whoever I get.

This is strange to me because I joined this corporation from a startup where team leads were the recruiters. I was responsible for all parts of the recruitment. Is this a common practice in large companies or this org just backward? And is there anything I can do about it?

I lead a team in a relatively modern role. This role is so new at my org that there’s no one in management with direct past experience in that role. My org has standing rules that establish minimum seniority level to be on an interview panel along with the composition of the panel and a cap on how many people in total can be on a panel. All taken together, a small set of people are allowed onto interview panel in our tech division.

As team lead, I don’t meet any of the criteria and no one on my team does. so I’m not allowed anywhere near my own candidates throughout the recruitment process. Consequently, recruiting for my team is always a coin toss. I don’t know who I am getting and their actual competence for the day to day job of my team. I have to deal with whoever I get.

This is strange to me because I joined this corporation from a startup where team leads were the recruiters. I was responsible for all parts of the recruitment. Is this a common practice in large companies or this org just backward? And is there anything I can do about it?

I have heard there blender-style machines for making banku and fufu I do some research and found the Synix Automatic Swallow Maker. I wan to buy one but I’d like to hear from anyone who’s tried it and what the experience is like. Does the banku come out good like the banku we know and love? Or does the texture and taste differ?

Please recommend the best place to experience good live band performance this evening win good food and generally good vibes for a couple

I have used various types of insecticide sprays but they seem to just go into hiding and return a few days later.

Anyone here who’s taken the Ecobank aptitude test recently? Could you share your general thoughts about it? Is it technical or just those geometric shapes and trivia questions?

I’m looking for people who deal in cashew exports especially those who contract small buyers to gather the cashew for them. If you know anyone I’d appreciate an introduction

In my years of working in tech at non-tech organizations, once in a while a sudden change comes that makes you question if someone thought through the decision. I have always dismissed them as one of those things that just happen and considered them in isolation. I’m only recently starting to pick up on the trend and I realize it much worse than I’d previously thought. Across different organizations in different industries, in my personal experience and the experiences of family and friends and things I’ve read online including posts in this sub, the trend is very clear.

Upper management makes a sudden change that’s not grounded in reality. Things start to fall apart and sometimes the decision is reversed after the effects ripple through the org. Other times, lower ranking staff are left to deal with completely unnecessary complications.

In a previous workplace, the CEO was unhappy about tardiness among the technical staff. Big boss orders all VPN accesses revoked. His reasoning is that people are not in a hurry to get to office because they can log in remotely to fix things. Without VPN access they’ll be forced to get to work early. The decision was reversed two days later after things failed at night and no one logged in to fix. Apparently big was unaware that his staff work around the clock to keep things running. This is also the original reason they were sometimes late to work. They are often up fixing things at odd hours.

In my current org I have seen so many decisions along the same lines. People getting fired for issues they had no control over, the wrong person being fired for someone else’s mistakes, low performers rewarded and recognized whilst completely ignoring high performers. Bad managers sacrificing their staff to save themselves and upper management just along with it.

As I think about it, I see the same trend always: very bad decisions taken in response to a legitimate issue but the decision often completely ignores the original problem.

It’s almost as if upper management is not actually running the organization. They seem to live in their bubble where all day to day realities are filtered out. What’s happening?

I made a resume maker for myself. Mainly because every other tool I used was missing something I wanted. I combined the best parts of every tool I’ve seen and features I wanted but not seen anywhere to make my own version.

I intend to release it for free to entire world.

I have integrated writing assistance into it to help frame things better. That part I obviously can’t give out for free because anthropic gives me a bill every time you rephrase a bullet point. So I intend to pass the cost of tokens on to those who want writing assistance. I have started designing “bring your own key” so people can bring their own api keys and use the writing assistance at their own cost?

I’m also contemplating open-sourcing it to allow other devs to contribute code and grow it into the defacto job search tool. I’m still considering that part though.

How many people will find this useful? And how many of you will contribute if I open source it.

I will be a little vague to preserve privacy but here it goes.

We have recently acquired a large scale management system that runs the core of the business. We are in one of those industries where there’s one large core system that runs everything and every other software connects to it like in trading, logistics, banking and insurance.

It’s very modern and generally better with one giant downside: no one on the technical team responsible for running it had any previous experience with it. Generally, this shouldn’t be a problem. You’d plan capacity building trainings for your teams as part of the acquisition plan. But in this case they completely ignored this. Now it’s in full operation and the team is basically running it on try-and-error basis. We only find out what could go wrong when it does go wrong. we spend hours running around with no particular sense of direction. Make an educated guess, try it and see if it works. If it fails try something else. If it works, we don’t really know why. We just celebrate and wait for the next downtime.

Every effort to get the necessary training have been rebuffed by our immediate supervisors. They have not provided any reasons for their reluctance.

Three major multi-day outages in, several long running issue no one knows how to fix, snail pace for what is eventually fixed by try-and-error.

The CEO organized a meeting to express his displeasure with the way the system is performing. He has figured out it’s not a system issue but a human problem. He just hasn’t pinpointed the lack of training as the reason yet. He’s on a hunt for scapegoats among the lower ranking staff.

We suspect he’s been misled by our supervisors that we have all we need to operate. So he thinks we’re just incompetent.

No one wants to go forward and tell him what’s happening mainly for fear of retribution.

Some of us are now on our way out. Is it necessary to inform HR the true reason for our departure?