I work for a non profit where one of my bosses handles payroll as well. If he knew he wasn’t going to make it on time for whatever reason, I think there should’ve at least been a heads up.
My mom is a family business payroll/business office person and when something happens she goes to the bank and withdraws cash to hand out for the people who can’t wait and then just balances it when the checks cut.
Our company funded payroll incorrectly (because the guy who was in charge of it is an idiot). He convinced everyone it wasn’t his fault etc. They sent out a long email explaining it was the banks fault and any fees for overdraft would be covered by the company. I got pushed over to help get it resolved etc. and the idiot hadn’t moved enough money and was trying to hide that fact. The bank paid up until the account ran out. So some salary employees who were paid first got paid and the hourly staff didn’t. Jokingly during the meeting I suggested we send out a follow up email to make sure the employees knew the guy in charge was an idiot. He didn’t take that suggestion very well. For this thread... not to be that guy, but always have your checking linked to another account, have overdraft credit and have one paycheck sit in checking. Be prepared!! Boy Scout motto!If something stupid like this happens or you hit pay twice on mortgage or something like that (I’ve done that) and all the sudden you have a mess on your hands. The people we had to pay the fees for I could have predicted. Marketing execs that always have to have nice shoes and clothes and eat out at lunch every day, etc. Overdraft credit usually doesn’t cost anything unless you use it and then you just need to pay it down within 30 days before you get charged. TLDNR - overdraft protection on checking accounts
Google always has paid too much attention to engineering and not enough to Business/Marketing. It's like that scene from Silicon Valley where the guys hand their beta to a bunch of their friends in the software community and everyone raves about it, but they never get any traction because regular people just don't understand what it is.
A couple that have been annoying me lately (mostly from random Linkedin posts I see on my feed): - any time "rockstar" is used to describe an employee/leader, like wtf is a rockstar in a work context - when start-up type of companies refer to their employees by a pet name to be hip for their careers webpage. E.g. if a company was named Brazil and referred to their employees as Brazilians rather than as our employees/staff/people/etc.
This thread was made for layoff announcements. This one from GameStop. Just look at this sentence. "While these changes are difficult, they were necessary to reduce costs and better align the organization with our efforts to optimize the business to meet our future objectives and success factors."
We recognize that this is a difficult day for our company and particularly for those associates impacted Pffffftttttt Company feels so bad
What they meant to say was “holy shit Madden was over 50% digital this year. Sorry but y’all gotta go.”
“We do not expect any future reductions.” Because we don’t won’t the poor assholes that are left to leave and fuck us.
My company announced some unpaid week long furloughs and near the end of the email it said something along the lines “we are confident we can meet our performance objectives by blah blah blah, and continuing to invest in our employees.” I mean who the fuck decided that was a good idea to write that in an email where you’re telling folks they have to take 2 weeks of unpaid vacation
Not really jargon related but I have a web security client that me and a teammate do marketing for. Two of the 3 on the client contact team are great. Both ladies are sharp and ask good questions. The third, a guy, is...I mean his heart is in the right place and all, but he's on the spectrum. Real awkward and once he starts rambling he won't quit. He's an online advertising specialist who has essentially been replaced by us. He sticks on in an advisory role. Also all of his technical knowledge is from 2005 I think he wants to appear useful so sometimes he will just hijack our reporting calls for 3-4 minutes at a time Us: Anyway here's performance for this period. Were gonna test some new ads here- Interrputing Carl: Actually now that you mention that, when i was managing these campaigns, I'd always test "X"- Other 2 Client contacts: Us: Carl - Carl: And really the best thing about TESTING is that you really HONE IN on whats working Us: Carl, we already- Carl: YEAH so if you could circle back around and add "X" to the TESTING QUEUE, WE'D REALLY LOVE to see the results- Us: Caaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlll- we already implemented the X test. Thinking Carl: .....Ah yes. Right, anyway, go on. Other 2 client contacts:
I heard someone say “we aren’t ready to open our kimonos yet” today. That was a new one for me. Probably not one I’m going to add to my tool kit though.
I always thought the guys that run our "company" are alright but thought the upper level division folks suck, but after today I'm not so sure anymore. We are a project based company. Every quarter we have a town hall that recognizes projects that performed well in the previous quarter, which is cool. Which projects did they recognize today? One that ended in early 2017 and another that ended in 2018. The 2018 project was our largest ever dollarwise by a longshot, so it's not like it's one that flew under the radar. How do you run a company and are that out of touch with what's going on. What in the fuck
My boss asked if I could "scrub in" on an assignment today. I don't work in anything relating to the medical field whatsoever. I cringed hard.
My boss is the arrogant do what I say not what I do type people. My first year on the job as been not only making up two years worth of losses he’s done but also general growth from the standard set three years ago. He ran my area for two years before moving up. I don’t see how he even still has a job. He’s a real kiss ass yes man to the head boss and constantly throws people under the bus for his mistakes.
Haven't heard it used like that before. That way sounds creepy. Try using it with trenchcoat in place of kimono
My company is communicating everyone's raise and bonus via email today (first time they have communicated it this way). 40,000 emails to go out. 40,000 people sitting around hitting refresh all day. Super productive around here.
Has anyone ever done a "360" professional development thing at work? I have to send this survey to ~20 people I've worked with and get them to anonymously rate me on all this shit so I can find out how people perceive me
It’s the approach used for our annual review process. Then your boss tries to hold you accountable to the feedback, meanwhile the actual org performance rankings were done at least a month prior. So what the fuck is the point of the exercise to gather feedback when it isn’t even used as an input to where you were ranked?
It’s a development thing going forward. In my experience it wasn’t used for any sort of measure. We had data for that.
It’s not. I have a large team of senior managers reporting to me, no one uses it for development because they know it has no impact on their performance.
Yep. It was actually one of the few fluffy HR exercises that I've found useful. Didn't change my career or anything but it pointed out some blindspots I had.
At my last job a manager with around two hundred employees under him got his back and I will say I was shocked. He had no idea how much he was unanimously hated across workers of all backgrounds and ages. He cried during his review meeting. Dude lost almost a hundred pounds, started spending time on the floor, learned everyone’s name, and most importantly stopped holding people to a standard of perfection even he realized he couldn’t meet. He has sustained it almost a decade and everyone is happier for it. I know these tests are corny but there’s occasionally some people who are completely blind to how they’re perceived and really want to be better. He’s probably the rare exception.
Fucking up for me on mobile, but he “started spending time on the floor, learned everyone’s name, and didn’t hold people to a standard of oerfection?” No Fucking Shit That’s basic management. Good management isn’t fucking rocket science, but people are so awful at it. Just being average puts you light years ahead of most everyone else.
A common logical failure in Fortune 500 companies with lots of engineers is that a high performing engineer will be a high performing manager. And I don’t mean engineers who just steal that title to sound important, I mean engineers with engineering degrees. Guys who never dated in college and probably organize their rock collections on the weekend. A good salesman etc, anything that requires like-ability, will probably have a similar impact on direct reports. A guy that designs circuit panels better than anyone in the group and eats lunch by himself every day will probably not be a great boss. He won’t care about the nuances of when you can apply for FMLA or when it’s time to advocate for an employee’s promotion. I’ve seen it over a hundred times at this point and it usually ends in a “special assignment overseas” and they return as an individual contributor back in their old job.
Been working on a project with a Vermont based clothing brand's "Director of Marketing Turtle" for the past few weeks.
I hate how all company leadership need to call everyone in the company a family. Like yea I know we spend time together but a) it minimizes actual family and b) yea you're not my family.
Jerks. My favorite example was a company I used to be at where the CEO got up and said we need to stick together like a family through hard times as part of an announcement that there were some layoffs earlier that day. As much as I'd like to have layoffs in my family for some underperformers....
I’ve worked for more than one company that encouraged employees to go use their org structure or corporate culture tactics in their personal lives.