Jonman wrote:Yeah, if anyone wants to join me working for a morally-dubious duopoly, Boeing is on a hiring blitz right now all across the country.
I forgot you worked for Boeing! I work for a wholly owned Airbus subsidiary. Does that make us enemies? Could we still eat lunch together?
I've worked for Airbus, Rolls Royce, GE and Boeing at various times. All I need is some time with Pratt & Whitney and I'll have cornered the large-airplane propulsion job market.
As of the end of the work day yesterday, the new database is live. I expect a lot of "why doesn't this work the way it used to?!" over the next few weeks, but am cautiously optimistic that my overall stress level will drop.
...which would be very helpful for restarting my job search, which I put on hold because the last steps of the migration were taking too much out of me.
…and now my work week is starting with my VP expressing buyer’s remorse over the new CRM database and asking if we really need to use one of the key features that we upgraded for.
Yep, definitely need to restart that job search.
Covid cases at my school just doubled.
So.
Yeah.
My personal experience is that you can't too many features in CRM software...
Despite the fact that the web team has shown itself to be totally capable of working from home and being just as good, corporate made a decree that we're all back in the office in March, full-time, and there appears to be no word of any flexibility/hybrid.
Infuriating, not only because the pandemic has limited my commute abilities and now I have to try and find a place closer to work to live within 4 weeks, but also because, as I said, not a word of communication with the teams ahead of time, no offer of flexibility, no discussion, no warning, nada. Just a decree on a Tuesday afternoon.
Did they force me to find a new place to live to cut my commute down in barely 4 1/2 months? Yes.
Did I manage to find a new place, sign a lease, hire movers, get everything ready to move tomorrow and be back in the office on Wednesday? Yes.
Did I, on a whim, decide to check my email today, after a week of packing and making sure the new place had power and getting ready to leave my current place, only to discover that Return to the Office has been delayed until the end of May? (My boss texted me Sunday night, I did not receive it.) BIG OL' YUP.
I am fully jokerized.
I said I was planning on leaving, so they are changing my title and giving me a $20,000 raise. I'd say that went pretty well.
I'm feeling pretty good about where I am now staying WFH with the option to come in. In part because my job is actually to administer the application that will allow the company to realistically look at its space utilization, as well as allow people without desks a way to reserve a space for themselves should they come in.
The other part is pre-covid if this job had existed it would have come with the expectation to move to Ohio, instead I get to sit in my home office by the window. I can see the squirrels and they are merry.
My favourite person at work just finished up today. He wasn't just my favourite because we got along so well on a personal level - he was a real mentor. I have a level of confidence that I just wouldn't have had if it weren't for him.
He was also a fierce defender of our team and our teams purpose. It's going to be extremely difficult for us to do what we do without him.
Anyway, updating resume, he's a new reference :P.
Good luck! I hope it is easier than you expect at your current place. I hope they don't replace your mentor with a floozy dickhead.
And I hope your search for a new place bears a lot of interesting fruit!
COVID has definitely taken a dagger to corporate workspaces. We need to resist, as corporations are trying to claw it back. It may be the closest thing we have to unionizing en masse in our lifetimes. We've needed this course correction since the 80's.
Good luck! I hope it is easier than you expect at your current place. I hope they don't replace your mentor with a floozy dickhead.
And I hope your search for a new place bears a lot of interesting fruit!
I really appreciate the well-wishes for my mentors replacement, but it's almost 100% certain they won't replace him. We keep asking, they keep hand-waving. They'll just force his workload upon us. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened.
In Western Australia, we've been closed off to the rest of the world, even the rest of the country, for most of the pandemic, which has resulted in an essentially closed market for developers. Setting aside politics, from an extremely selfish perspective, this means the market is hotter than it's ever been, so I think I'll be able to find something. It's just finding something that does what I want. My last job change stung me a lot. They promised an amazing work-life balance, only to find that everyone was expected to be a workaholic (aka free labour wage-slave), with an occasional reward of pizza/movie/quiz nights. And that's the tip of the iceberg.
In a seller's market, you set your own terms...
Cross posting from the "Loathe" thread for those looking for work and struggling to write resumes and talk about themselves in interviews.
https://docs.google.com/presentation...
This is a presentation about blurbs and blocks. How to collect and organize thoughts and things you've done in your career into easily understandable and remembered chunks. They are also interchangeable so you can mix them up to sound more authentic and less rehearsed.
edit: feel free to ask me questions about it. I have a LOT of experience with reinventing myself and applying for jobs every year. (sadly)
Thank you!
Absolute chaos lately.
On the bright side, with the overtime I'm getting, I'll be able to buy a 4K 120hz TV! To finally get the full power out of my XSX!
Go OLED and never look back. 
Go OLED and never look back. :-)
I was looking at the CNET top TVs. The C1 was the best of the list, but it was OLED, and that scares me (probably for no reason but just plain fear.)
I got the Samsung QN09 I think, and I hooked it up last night. Very nice. Very pretty... and very bright. I needed to turn down the brightness and contrast immediately.
I picked up the Sonos Arc as a sound bar. Amazing as well.
halfwaywrong sent me a PM and I wanted to share the response here because it is an easy resume tip that most don't think of:
Another technique to add to this is to talk to old co-workers.
Ask them questions "What did we work on at company X?"
You can also ask them to describe your strengths.
Family members are good for this too. You would be surprised at what they say and you may find that they use better words than you do. There is nothing saying that you can't use their words on your resume too!
It has happened more than once where I asked a co-worker, supervisor even, about a project we worked on and they made me look better than I ever could.
An example:
I told a co-worker that "I like to help people. I like to make it easier for them to use the technology that they don't always understand." And after talking for a few more minutes, he said, "It sounds to me like you enjoy making connections." which is more direct and concise.
So one of my "wins" in interviews and cover letters is:
"People's understanding of technology is growing. But technology is advancing even faster. I enjoy connecting technology with people, no matter their background or technical ability. And because I treat challenges like puzzles, I am more drawn to the increasingly difficult and necessary job that I do."
Then I follow up with:
"I have a gift for it. I have a calm and patient demeanor and listen. So no matter how agitated the co-worker or client is, I will be able to cherry pick a couple of clues that allow me to redirect a question to them. They usually calm down immediately because they know I am listening to them and I will be able to help them."
Another thing related to my puzzle solving:
"I don't back away from "impossible" tasks. I see them as complex puzzles where I can help my team separate out the parts that are possible and work on them to see how close we can get. We won't always solve it, but people will be impressed with how close we came in how short a time. We may even get close enough that we develop work arounds for the part we can't solve."
Vrikk, QLED is not bad. OLED is just LEDs and a color filter. Nothing scary. But QLED is not that far off, at the high end. It does however produce more blue light as a byproduct of how it works.
Rtings.com has a fantastic selecting of curated settings for all kinds of TVs and monitors. Go there to get your reds and saturation and brightness sorted out.
I'm still working at the same place, but they've learned a lot about retention lately. Enough that I just got a promotion and a 35% raise.
Quit my job last Thursday after 15 looong years.
I'd already started applying to new jobs a couple of months before hitting the ejector, but now i kind of hope it takes 3-6 months to find a new gig.
Quit my job last Thursday after 15 looong years.
I'd already started applying to new jobs a couple of months before hitting the ejector, but now i kind of hope it takes 3-6 months to find a new gig.
No more airport hangers for you...for the time being.
I went to the office today for some certification thing that's much easier to do in office. First time working there in 25 months. One off day a few months in I went to pick up missing stuff.
One other guy was there for the same thing I was and he hadn't been in since August. Another guy lives close and goes in a couple times a week but he's a manager with an office.
Front desk worker and IT guy were there, like every day. And like 2 other people there that didn't have to be.
So 6 voluntary people there out of what used to be 200 or so. Real ghost town feeling. I don't think anybody is ever going back full time that doesn't have to. It was eerie. I used lunch break to drive back home so I wouldn't have to fight traffic.
Very minor gripe, but still:
So many typos in the project manager's documents, I find it very, very distracting during meetings. I have to fight the urge to open my mouth to point them out. I think he's doing a good job otherwise, though, trying to make the best out of unfortunate circumstances.
Vrikk, QLED is not bad. OLED is just LEDs and a color filter. Nothing scary. But QLED is not that far off, at the high end. It does however produce more blue light as a byproduct of how it works.
Rtings.com has a fantastic selecting of curated settings for all kinds of TVs and monitors. Go there to get your reds and saturation and brightness sorted out. :-)
Definitely falling off topic but the Samsung QD-OLED S95B brings the best of both worlds together. Brightness
& Color of LED and OLED blacks and clarity. Look it up, the TV wonks are going crazy over it (unless you want over 65", in which case not yet). I almost missed it because Samsung is barely advertising it.
I had heard that was coming. Might be my next TV someday. Problem is supply, I think. They might not be making many of them yet.
... So 6 voluntary people there out of what used to be 200 or so. Real ghost town feeling. I don't think anybody is ever going back full time that doesn't have to. It was eerie. I used lunch break to drive back home so I wouldn't have to fight traffic.
I desperately want a WFH job. Unfortunately too many doors are still locked for me because I don't have a college degree.
I've been debating just getting a couple certifications, Excel and Lean Manufacturing, just so I have something while I keep working to finish school.
If any of y'all need an excel expert and efficiency enthusiast that can work remote, then ping me.
How many years experience do you have, Atomikrin?
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