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Antiwork 2: No One Is Getting A Pay Raise

MichVandal said:
We've also been constantly sold the myth that war is honorable. Which is total BS. It's really a failure.
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfrid Owen 1893-1918
 
Web services integrations are somehow both 'fun' and also the bane of my existence.

We have a connection! Now let's see how shitty this client's data is and why we won't be able to use it.
 
Interesting conversation. We've known for awhile that the company that bought us out combines 2 departments. some of the more recent reduction in force have left plants with 1 manager where there used to be 2....knowing eventually there would be 1 over both areas. So, today they offer me said position, do all my job as well as the work of the recently let go other manager....and for this they are offering me: 6%
I had the audacity to ask if there is a job description for this new role. No, no there is not. Also 6% might be ok, if I weren't already underpaid.
 
Employees here get emails every now and them to take trainings. They're mandatory, but they're nothing major. Middle of June I get a request to take a Third Party Risk Management training. No big deal. I take. Get the diploma. In the course presentation, one of the slides says I have to review the TPRM program Guide, which basically walks you through how to complete their forms (which I already know how to do) and then I was told I was going to receive an email to complete a survey in order to fully complete the training. Except I never received it. So a week later, I emailed Legal Compliance to tell them what happened (or didn't happen) and after a bit of back and forth, they had no idea why I did not receive it and would look into for me. Then, of course, I forgot about it.

Today I get an email from my manager who got an email from the head of our department that I was one of two people who never did it. I was like "WHAT??? I DID TOO!!" I found the email conversation, went back into the training module, etc. Then lo and behold I got the email. But I'm annoyed because I did take it. I can't help that the group who runs the training screwed up. I want my name cleared!!!!!!
 
Debating if today is my last day at my current job. I've been offered the manager role for 2 departments (mine + another where they eliminated that manager's position) while they are offering me some money, it's not enough for the amount of responsibility and I happen to know it's less than what they were paying the other guy to do half the job.

It's tough because while I could take it, I feel like I'd be accepting that I'm worth less than that other guy was, and that my work isn't as valuable as the other managers on the team. It's insulting and demoralizing, but I should probably try to stay employed until I find something else.
 
unofan said:
I take pride in my work to the extent that I do it well. But it's work, not super happy fun time. If I could maintain the same standard of living in a less demanding job or one that gave me more free time to enjoy my hobbies and family, I 100% would.

I'm not working a single day longer than I need to to ensure my daughter gets an education and I can live reasonably well and travel as desired in retirement. Right now I'm expecting I can retire around 60 - my daughter will be a couple years out of undergrad by then and our house should be paid off. At that point, it's mainly a matter of health care and how to handle that until I'm medicare eligible (assuming it still exists).
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This is me. Just sub “son” for “daughter” and “couple years out” with “couple years in”
 
Russell Jaslow said:
About 20 minutes ago, I handed in my company badge.

I am now officially RETIRED!!!!
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Welcome back to your humanity, my friend.

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