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Took a pay hair cut today, a little off the top. Lots of folks got fired
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2020 Jun 2, 2:02pm 442 views 3 comments
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Shaman
2020 Jun 2, 2:09pm
Shaman
2020 Jun 2, 2:09pm
Gross. This year has really sucked. It’s always good to be a valuable employee though. And looks like your honesty when faced with a moral dilemma imposed on you by a dishonest executive paid off.
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Tenpoundbass
2020 Jun 2, 2:21pm
Tenpoundbass
2020 Jun 2, 2:21pm
Ceffer says
I got a text earlier that a lot of great long time people there got let go. I had my one on one scheduled at 4:30.
I was kind of hoping I would have been furloughed, I want to move on to greener pastures. I write software, I don't like to stick around after and spend the next 5 to 10 years shoving a plunger up and down feeding shit through the system, because the end user is too fucking lazy to use the front end I gave them.
If I weren't there, they would use the software just fine, but since I'm there. They'll let a bunch of records go and then have me batch and do behind the scenes stuff. Which is fine if it's my Enterprise model I made for them. But when you're using the ERP APIs to get data in. you don't go updating the SQL tables in the back end. You start bastardizing records that way, and things you assumed would get updated doesn't get updated and it just makes a bigger mess. It's a vicious cycle.
I was hopping to move on, this would have been an excellent opportunity for me to jump out there and make the next chapter happen.
I've always worked at companies about 3 years tops, then I've developed everything they need or they moved on to a Box ERP or CRM. I don't do end user.
I have no desire to sit and wait for one off tasks as the gatekeeper of a shitty system I didn't write.
The problem with that is, you spend 5 or 7 years somewhere doing that, you'll be an obsolete dinosaur when you go looking for your next job.
Always be Coding! I want the Cadillac not the Knife Set. Always be Coding. -Cheesy Glen Gary Glen Ross reference
Being self employed: you value your employee a lot.
I got a text earlier that a lot of great long time people there got let go. I had my one on one scheduled at 4:30.
I was kind of hoping I would have been furloughed, I want to move on to greener pastures. I write software, I don't like to stick around after and spend the next 5 to 10 years shoving a plunger up and down feeding shit through the system, because the end user is too fucking lazy to use the front end I gave them.
If I weren't there, they would use the software just fine, but since I'm there. They'll let a bunch of records go and then have me batch and do behind the scenes stuff. Which is fine if it's my Enterprise model I made for them. But when you're using the ERP APIs to get data in. you don't go updating the SQL tables in the back end. You start bastardizing records that way, and things you assumed would get updated doesn't get updated and it just makes a bigger mess. It's a vicious cycle.
I was hopping to move on, this would have been an excellent opportunity for me to jump out there and make the next chapter happen.
I've always worked at companies about 3 years tops, then I've developed everything they need or they moved on to a Box ERP or CRM. I don't do end user.
I have no desire to sit and wait for one off tasks as the gatekeeper of a shitty system I didn't write.
The problem with that is, you spend 5 or 7 years somewhere doing that, you'll be an obsolete dinosaur when you go looking for your next job.
Always be Coding! I want the Cadillac not the Knife Set. Always be Coding. -Cheesy Glen Gary Glen Ross reference
But the company is lucky to be open at all after all they've been through since February.
1)Malware Encryption Enterprise wide take down.
2)Existing CIO at the time wanted to use the opportunity to force the company off their ERP and onto Netsuite, Netsuite no where near ready or ever capable of handling our business model. Company brings in outside IT to get the network back up, CIO calls me in office, asked me to thwart their efforts and don't be forthcoming. I told the Owners CIO got canned.
3)just weeks later 90% of the company got furloughed due to Corona Virus. Called me back a week later. Called most folks back after the PPP act.
4)Now that Corona Virus is waning and looked like the Hospitality business(who we serve) would pick back up. Now comes the riots all over the US.