I feel a lot better about my nonprofit job now. I’m severely underpaid but the benefits are great and cheap and I get like 25 days off every year.
Nope, I now run the operations for a privately held soon to be PE backed multi specialty medical group. But I have connections in that world if you're making to look a switch. Send me an PM.
My consulting gig was similar. Engagements were 6-8 months in length and usually a few weeks in between, so I'd take one 2-3 week vacation a year + a bunch of random fridays (work from home days) + all the time around Christmas and New Years that amounted to about 2 weeks. Worked out pretty well for me.
I am an Account Manager and commission makes up about 90% of my pay. They lumped all of our time off and vacation a couple years back with no limit on carryover. I haven't taken a vacation of over a week in a couple years, usually just take a Friday here and a Monday there. This discussion made me look at my last paystub and I currently have 223 hours of PTO to use. Even when I am out of the office I am still married to email and making sure to answer customer emails and having our office staff expedite orders and send out quotes in a timely manner if I am unable to. Really the only thing that changes when I am off and out of the office is I am usually not making any cold calls although you never know who you might run into as any business is a potential customer.
Nature of the beast in today’s corporate America. I check and return emails on my phone all night, on weekends and on vacation. Unless you’re a blue collar worker, I think that’s pretty much the norm now. It sucks, but it is what it is.
Product manager at privately held company here. I get 15 working days PTO, but can buy 5 more days if I want. We get about 13 paid holidays a year as well. Sick leave is basically unlimited and on the honor system. Fairly standard. Doubt I’d use much more than the 3 weeks if I had it.
It's an incredible place to live, just expensive AF. If you get a decent job it makes up for the cost of living increase, though. When you moving?
Technically I'll be in the Tacoma area. Barring a lucrative job at like Amazon, my compensation now is about the same of what I saw looking around Glassdoor. I'm going to have a pretty sweet gig doing what I do now but with no commute so I'm pretty happy. Fiancee starts her residency like June 1, so sometime in May. We're both lifelong Kansans so we are really excited about the change.
It's not as bad as Seattle but more than Kansas City. It seems like the growth of Seattle has started to bleed into the surrounding cities like Tacoma.
It definitely has, mainly in the small cities south of Seattle/suburbs south of the stadiums (Federal Way, Auburn, Kent, etc.) Still worth it, imo.
Fuck all of you with “unlimited vacation.” I have spent exactly 15 days away from the office over the past 24+ months
Not true. Management Consultants (from Partner to Analyst) are allowed to check out, and do so for weeks at a time. Partners usually keep a buddy partner, put on their out of office on outlook, change their voicemail and go. It was also like that at the larger non consulting firm, that valued work life balance. It seems only smaller companies and family companies don’t have those same values.
Lol what? I’ve worked for three Fortune500 companies (all in different industries) and it was the same at each. Consider yourself lucky if you’re able to unplug.
Unfortunately I don’t think unplugging is very feasible in 2018 with worldwide internet and smartphones. I routinely respond to emails while on vacation. It also makes the first day back slightly less hectic, so I don’t really mind it. Kind of just comes with the territory.
Absolutely this. There’s nothing worse than returning to a couple hundred emails to dig out of on a Monday morning.
Maybe at a small consulting firm. But at the big ones, on paper the firm might be fine with 6 weeks of PTO per year, the competition amongst consultants at the same level is so fierce that most people who are serious about staying with the firm barely take any time off whatsoever because of "optics" and whatnot. If people know they are going to leave and/or are not worried about promotions, then yeah it's fine to take 2-3 weeks off at a time between projects. Obviously, these are broad statements and things can vary among industries and service lines. So glad I got away from working with management consultants.
Turned in my resignation this afternoon. Gonna miss my group. Had an awesome boss. But I'll effectively see $1200/month increase. Taking 10 days off before I start. Deciding between key west ( honeymoon spot), vegas, and South Beach.
Start my new job Monday. Had to finish out all of 2017 so I would still be eligible for my bonus. Really hate leaving my previous job but I’m leaving 12hr shifts, 6 months on nights, and operating 365 days a year. New job will be a customer of my previous industry, so it should keep me as a viable candidate should I choose to try and return to the railroad, but I’ll be M-F and 40 hour weeks. Definitely more of a family decision than career but I should be happier.
My oldest brother and I work for the same company in similar roles. He’d been bitching about the fake ness of the espoused culture, and I wasn’t buying it - til the two sales guys in the region I manage were let go two weeks before Christmas. I’m liking their replacements just fine, but Jesus fuck they did the old guys dirty. Not worried about my future as I have a fairly sterling rep in my department, but it sucks to be reminded that you don’t work somewhere special.
We just eclipsed the $1b revenue mark this year. We got bought by a pretty well known Fortune 100 company in August of 2016. Throughout 2017 members of management slowly disappeared but it was mostly the old timers. On Wednesday they called a meeting and dissolved 2 entire departments. About 40 people lost their jobs. The office they worked out of was kind of a weird culture in the sense that just about everyone had been working there 20+ years. Their performance honestly wasn’t the best and I get why they did it, but damn that’s rough Everyone’s on edge right now as we’re moving from that small company to mega company feel
We’re making in the range of $100-$200 mil, and we acquired a company last year. All their senior staff were axed, and that was supposed to be it, but a bunch of “our” people were cut down shortly after. That’s among the first dick moves that set my brother off.
Having lived through four rounds of reductions in force in two years, multiple kaizens and all kinds of lean process change, I can tell you that the anxiety never really goes away. At least for me it doesn’t. And it really wrecks company culture and morale. It takes a really long time to build that back up.
Because I love my job, the people I work with and for me and our mission and vision. I’ve explored leaving in the past, but just couldn’t pull the trigger. Things are better now than they have been in a while, but it was dicey for a while. I also work in an area that’s been largely insulated from the RIFs and malcontent. But the thought of “more is coming” still weighs on me.
Yeah we’ve lost pretty much all of our senior management as well. Overall it doesn’t seem too bad but our new CFO was brought in from GE and seems like a total twat He seems to think he’s the COO too
It really seems like those GE dudes all have a certain way of doing things. And it isn't very popular with he employees.
Turning mine in next week. Going to feel weird leaving this job as I am leaving on great terms and would love to end up back with this company.
We are same. I'm working a 3+ week notice. I'd love to come back. Just needed some more money, so I decided to "play the game" .
After months of requests (i.e., lighthearted complaining) at my new job, and 5+ years as a lawyer, I am finally getting a Stand Up Desk installed tomorrow.
I’m in or was in this boat. Left for a little less money to have a normal schedule and live back home. Both of which I’m glad to have, but my onboarding at my new company has been very slow and unorganized. I’ll probably keep an eye on the job market here for something I’d enjoy more.
Congrats! Had a buddy who made the move out there years ago on a WFH gig that lasted a few years. Lived there myself as well. He is IT, worked for Microsoft and Amazon and hated working at each with a passion because of the way they treated people. A large part of the hatred was the commute. Hang on as long as you can. One other factor, Amazon would probably look good on a resume if you move in the future. Same friend thought Amazon and Microsoft would be great on his resume but he came to realize that like half of all applicants in the area had at least one of them on theirs as well.
Having my department wide going away happy hour in an hour. I'm really gonna miss these guys. 5 years of the best work family anyone could ask for. It's actually on the company card too. They either really really like me or are really really happy I'm going, bc 99% of people that leave don't get anything. Really thankful for this! This is a corporate HQ for a F500 company btw. Dear diary
For those of you in healthcare (Tiger Tiger Woods Y'all, and whoever else), do any of you guys have an MHA? I'm possibly looking into this and wanted to get some opinions/thoughts on it.
I don't. I've been in healthcare since I graduated and now the cost/benefit analysis doesn't work for me to go back. If you want to do healthcare P/E, M/A work, or high level consulting you need an MBA/MHA in most cases. Helps also if you want to be in hospital administration. Hospital admin folks love acronyms after their name.
It usually is like: Per our previous discussion let’s focus on innovating outside the box so we can have a crucial conversation on the lessons learned. Best, Nancy Manwood, DNS, MBA, MSN, RN, ARNP, OCN, NEA-BC, FAAN