Thoughts on read receipts from external and internal? I always check no. I think they’re mostly ridiculous.
7 months in, company (of about 25 people) is planning a Boston meetup. Excited to hear our CEO drone on about EBDITA, earnings, profit margin and new portfolio company acquisitions in person
I love auditing old coworker’s LinkedIn profiles. The amount of absurd fluff and outright lies would make Clinton blush. “Directed the implementation of solution which immediately increased revenue by 200% and decreased order fulfillment time by 400%. Project came in $3 million under budget and 6 months ahead of schedule.” No, dude, you were a project manager for a COTS application upgrade that took like 8 weeks for the 5-6 resources to complete part time. You tracked all 11 project tasks in Excel.
honestly this speaks to a larger issue with resume writing when you are someone who works somewhere in the cogs of corporate America. likely, even if you kickass at your job, you didn't achieve some crazy quantitative achievement by yourself. But people are expected to write numbers into resumes to show success. But in a sentence or two it's ridiculous to encapsulate months/years worth of work as a part of a team or department. I almost dont blame people who cross the line from 'gotta write this resume' to 'exaggerating imapact'
Yep, it's fucking insane. I had to fluff my resume up for this job I started back in June last year even though I was going to be hired on by a former co-worker.
I switched jobs 4 years ago. I started hunting with a direct one pager and got minimal hits. I puffed it up with nonsense like above and interest skyrocketed.
My resume has good numbers in it but it still reads more like I achieved it myself. Which I hate. But thats how its supposed to be written. I would prefer resumes were literally just lists of skills/responsibilities and no metrics whatsoever. its ridiculous thats expected given that more often than not its not verifiable. I just want to know if you managed a marketing plan and know how to do that well - I couldn't care less if you drum up some 394783984% growth out of thin air.
I’ve had an outstanding application for setting up engineering licensure in other states for like 2 years because they didn’t like the narrative I had to describe my work experience. It’s painful to try to write that way. Why won’t they accept. “I designed a lot of stuff”
Definitely know those types of managers. They never last long. I've been lucky as hell on my current project. Haven't had to escalate anything and we wrap up here in a few weeks. Our middle management is actually improving. Our lower level workers and senior management are terrible.
Somethings like "circle back" or "take it offline" make sense, things like "blue sky thinking" drive me fucking bonkers and thankfully I've never actually heard that one.
One of my grad school professors got furious at our class one day and went on a lengthy rant because we were all making fun of the corporate speak.
“If you’re lucky you’ll end up working a soul sucking white collar job for an organization that couldn’t care less about anything but your productivity. You’re not getting ahead by wasting weekends soliciting bedroom communities. Throw that coffee away and go get high or something.” —jbr
someone called me out on a team call for looking sad or something so I came up with "Resting Zoom Face" and I think it has potential. EDIT: oh this exists