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note: I feel sorry for those people who work so hard in their education and their education doesn't pay off and their haunting for jobs feels like hell if someone here reading this I hope these tips help u
I work at a regional law firm that brought me in as an IT specialist to manage the digital evidence for court cases. They were moving from an old evidence-management setup to a cloud system, and the plan was for me to be the only person with admin rights. Everyone else would have read-only access and continue their work on a local shared drive. On paper, fine. But I quickly discovered that this was pretty much all the work they expected me to do during my 7.5-hour shift. It wasn't anywhere near a full day's workload, so I spent a lot of time in the office pretending to be busy.
Then the pandemic happened, and they asked me if I could do the work from home. I set up a remote workstation, connected it at my place, and that's where things started to get interesting. Over about 9 days, I wrote and tested a simple script that does almost everything I was being paid to do. It monitors the office drive for any new files, creates hash values for them, uploads them to the cloud, and then verifies the hashes again to make sure nothing has changed. And since it's legal evidence, that chain of integrity is very important.
Back then it was like : I clock in, let the script run, play games, clean the house, read, whatever. Before I clock out, I check the logs and make sure nothing failed or needs intervention. Most days, I'm working for maybe 12 minutes.
I felt a little weird about it at first, like I was somehow scamming the company. But honestly, the work is getting done exactly the way they asked for it, it's finished on time, and nobody has ever complained. I'm doing the job they hired me for. I just found a better way to do it, and because of that, I've taken a big part of my life back for myself.
update: after this experience I decided to shift and to work full remotely since then I even used AI tools like InterviewVIP during my zoom interviews and it makes a great effort !
I've worked a lot of different jobs, and I've never made more than $58k a year (I'm 24), and one thing I've noticed is that I'm usually the only guy, or one of two at most, in the break room with a lunch I brought from home. Yeah, of course, every now and then I'll get something from outside as a change of pace, but honestly I'm still surprised by how uncommon packed lunches are. I mean, we all know that buying lunch every shift is literally throwing money away, right? On top of that, in some places I've worked, lunch breaks were timed and really tight, with half the break spent just driving to the place, waiting in line, and coming back.
I'm not trying to judge anyone who likes eating out, at all. If it's worth it to you and that's what you want to spend your money on, that's totally fine. I'm sure I spend money on things other people might think are stupid or unnecessary. I'm just surprised why I always end up being the dude with leftovers in a container lol
That's definitely nonsense, right? I had a meeting this morning with my manager, her lawyer, and three people from HR. During the meeting, the manager said that it is "allowed" to fire employees who talk about their salaries if:
It creates "disruption" for the organization
Or if the organization is covered by a "collective bargaining agreement"
This seems completely wrong to me. My understanding is that the National Labor Relations Act protects employees when they talk about wages and working conditions, even if there is no union present.
The reason this came up: I recently found out that another employee with fewer responsibilities than me is getting a higher salary. I wasn't digging into it - he was the one who brought it up after I had said I'd rather not know the details. When I asked about the pay difference, my manager said that discussing salaries is a "terminable offense," which, as far as I know, is not legal.
Now she has brought HR onto her side and they're saying it's fine to fire someone because talking about salaries "causes disruption."
I feel like they're trying to scare me into staying quiet. Am I right that this is nonsense?
What's the fastest you've ever seen someone ruin it for themselves like that? My job is a very normal corporate job, nothing strange. But recently we hired someone who seemed determined to cause chaos from her very first day. She turned everything into a dramatic scene.
She would file formal complaints against her colleagues for 'making her feel incompetent' when they pointed out a mistake that needed fixing. I mean, the mistake was real and had to be corrected, but just because she got embarrassed, she became the victim. Then, with utter audacity, she took a presentation I had been working on for weeks, changed the colors, swapped a few slides, and went to our manager saying she had 'improved' it and deserved 60% of the credit. On top of that, she used to break down crying whenever she was asked a direct question about her work, claiming people were 'ganging up on her' but could never explain how. Look, I'm all for protecting employees, of course, but this wasn't bullying; she was simply someone who refused to take any responsibility.
The final nail in the coffin, from what I heard, was a company-wide conference a few weeks ago. Apparently, she cornered a VP from another department (who is married, by the way) and made a very inappropriate advance on him after the main event. The news spread like wildfire, of course, and she was fired last week for this gross misconduct.
So, has anyone here worked with someone who self-destructed like this? I need to hear it so I don't feel so alone.