Antiwork 2: No One Is Getting A Pay Raise

dxmnkd316 said:

Yes.

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This is better than any of my self-edited responses

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With all due respect to the parent, I would not go even at work. Baby showers are for friends and relatives, not for the general public that you happen to share a company with.

No way would I go, no way would I put money in. It's pretend "team work".

To put this into perspective, I made it a big point that when something big happened in my family, that the news was only supposed to be shared with my immediate co-workers, and that it was for info only. I really didn't like it when some person's relative died in our building and we all found out about it. If it were a friend, I would know and I would be very sad with and for them. Some random person that I don't know- no.

Sounds like the kind of crap management at my work pulls to weed out potential promotees. Oh you didn’t show up to so-and-so’s baby shower or birthday party? Yeah, you’re “not a good fit”.

(This is a roundabout way of me saying that management at my work is utterly incompetent because they promote not on ability but on “vibes”)

Jimjamesak said:

Sounds like the kind of crap management at my work pulls to weed out potential promotees. Oh you didn’t show up to so-and-so’s baby shower or birthday party? Yeah, you’re “not a good fit”.

(This is a roundabout way of me saying that management at my work is utterly incompetent because they promote not on ability but on “vibes”)

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That was pointed out to me at work. So I asked how it would make me a more effective worker. Especially finding out that my coworkers hated the very laws that they were working on, or they were against government grants which they were working on. I suggested that learning about my coworkers could undermine my trust in them.

MichVandal said:

With all due respect to the parent, I would not go even at work. Baby showers are for friends and relatives, not for the general public that you happen to share a company with.

No way would I go, no way would I put money in. It's pretend "team work".

To put this into perspective, I made it a big point that when something big happened in my family, that the news was only supposed to be shared with my immediate co-workers, and that it was for info only. I really didn't like it when some person's relative died in our building and we all found out about it. If it were a friend, I would know and I would be very sad with and for them. Some random person that I don't know- no.

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I agree with your sentiment, but it's generally not worth the resulting fallout. Office politics are a thing, whether we like it or not, and especially in more traditional white collar jobs where there are fewer quantitative measures. And dealing with it is a necessary work skill.

Throwing $10 and an hour of on-the-clock time into a pointless virtual party is better than being accused of not being a team player and getting yourself sideways with management purely for the self-satisfaction of being right unless you've already got one foot out the door.

This is why you always take a customer-facing job with a friend on the customer side. Then you happen to have a meeting conflict. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

45 day Trauma leave

Gotta vent. Senior partner is legitimately swamped with work and trying to delegate stuff. I get an email Friday saying "I've reviewed X, please check the rest." I check the rest of the documents in the packet.

Today I get an email with questions about X, asking if I looked at it closely. I said I hadn't because I thought she had already. She responds by saying she reviewed enough to send to client but not fully for filing with the regulatory agency as she's trying to delegate more. Then gives me the passive aggressive "but i can change the amount I delegate if needed."

Like, I get you're swamped, but don't tell me to review the rest if you actually wanted me to look at everything.

You expected a senior partner to do actual work?

They are there for business development and keeping DOJ out of your hair with their golf buddies.

It's been high 70s/low 80s for the past few days in Grand Rapids. Older people who work out with us are concerned about the temperature in the building.

But Corporate demands our thermostat be left at 72.

72 in the winter sounds good

mookie1995 said:

72 in the winter sounds good

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It should be 66 in the summer.

As long as it isn't 86... that'll get you a one-way trip to El Salvador

Being retired is fucking awesome.

It's becoming alive again for the first time since grad school. It's getting sprung from prison.

As soon as you possibly can afford it, get away from those fucking users. Take your life back from the parasites.

Two more members of my team, including one in my smaller team just got promoted. Both were well deserved. I just want to know how it's done. I've told my manager and her manager my not being promoted is not a reason to leave. I'm not going to. I like my job. My position got downgraded back in 2020. Totally understood it at the time. I was trying to come up with a positive way of approaching the subject with my manager, like "What do you need from me/what can I do to get back to where I was?' I wonder if it's because I'm not the kind of person to push for myself. I'm actually a little afraid of the response I might get - that's part of the reason I have never broached the subject before. Is it because I'm at an age when they think I might retire soon? I wish I had a spine to bring it up in conversation. I was in NYC with the promotee, our manager and her manager (who used to be my direct manager) and we were talking about other newbies on the team and their grade levels and I wanted to look at all of them and say "Really?" and roll my eyes. But I didn't think that was the time. It's discouraging.

Kepler said:

Being retired is fucking awesome.

It's becoming alive again for the first time since grad school. It's getting sprung from prison.

As soon as you possibly can afford it, get away from those fucking users. Take your life back from the parasites.

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End of July baby. End of July!

I kinda love hearing the complaints of "I haven't used the gym in three months; why am I still being charged?"

Um, because you signed an agreement to pay us every month until you cancel?