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Antiwork 2: No One Is Getting A Pay Raise

unofan said:
I've been at my current firm 18 months now and the new job high/smell/aura whatever has definitely worn off. Worst part is this time I have to acknowledge it's entirely me. The firm has treated me great, I love my immediate coworkers, the pay is great, even the actual legal work is good.

It's the stress of general firm life (billable hours, being essentially on call all the time, drive some new clients, etc) that's getting me. I loved the fact that with few exceptions, i could clearly delineate work time and non-work time at my government job. If I was on vacation, I could literally be on vacation and not check work email until i was back on the clock. Now I feel obligated to at least check email and most likely do some actual work while traveling and semi regularly on nights and weekends. And I don't like that.

I'm not planning any immediate moves, but it is just disconcerting for me. 6 months ago I would've said 100% I'd want to stay on and go equity partner track. Now I'd say that's 50/50 at best. And given how dramatic a shift that is in a relatively short time frame, I'm really questioning myself.
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Mrs. Uno private or govt? Crim defense (at one time, at least), so I’m thinking private?
 
burd said:
Mrs. Uno private or govt? Crim defense (at one time, at least), so I’m thinking private?
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She tried private practice for 2 years when she was trying to get on the bench (our district's commission refuses to appoint county attorneys or public defenders). She's back with the state public defender after seeing the writing on the wall that she wasn't ever going to make it through to the governor, let alone get appointed. Basically doubled her income by going back to state employment, and that's before counting the benefits.

Admittedly, part of my discontent with my work is jealousy of her 4 weeks of paid vacation. When I mentioned that to a co-worker they tried to pull the "we have unlimited vacation here" and I just gave the look back.
 
unofan said:
Admittedly, part of my discontent with my work is jealousy of her 4 weeks of paid vacation. When I mentioned that to a co-worker they tried to pull the "we have unlimited vacation here" and I just gave the look back.
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That cracks me up where I work, too. Though, I do take a lot of vacation no matter the pressure.

There was a study which showed that employees who work at companies with "unliminted" vacation wind up taking less vacation time than at companies with fixed vacation policies.
 
Since Epic is HQed in Madison, we get a fair number in my area who work there. Sounds like a forward-thinking company that tries to allow generous vacation, even providing motivation for taking a portion of it out-of-country.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
There was a study which showed that employees who work at companies with "unliminted" vacation wind up taking less vacation time than at companies with fixed vacation policies.
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My current and most recent previous firm both follow the no fixed PTO model (I refuse to call it "unlimited"). The first company I worked for out of college as an FTE back in 2011 were pioneers of it. I can confirm, if you aren't zealous about planning when you're going to take PTO early in the year, and requesting it then, it's very easy for months to go by without taking any.
 
Personally, I've been trying to find ways to save and manage my finances better. Recently, I started using PalmPay (after reading reviews here), a mobile payment app, and it's been quite helpful. They offer cashback and discounts on various transactions, which has made a noticeable difference.
 
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burd said:
Since Epic is HQed in Madison, we get a fair number in my area who work there. Sounds like a forward-thinking company that tries to allow generous vacation, even providing motivation for taking a portion of it out-of-country.
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Yeah they do seem to have generous time off, and every few years employees take month-long "sabbaticals". That said, they tend to work their staff hard while they're there. And they are fully in-office. If you are on the support side (TS/TC/Implementation specialist), you're basically never not on.
 
I started a new job today. I'm now a DSP for 8-18 year Olds with the 'Tism and other developmental conditions. Back to dealing with aggressive behaviors and being called a "f-cking b-tch" 20 times a day.

But I love this line of work, and can't picture myself doing anything else.
 
Another petty rant coming up - I feel like this is the only place I can vent, regardless of how stupid. Please bear with me. And compared to what other people are going through, I get how stupid this all sounds. Anyway...

We had a whole department meeting this past Tuesday. Last Thursday, while I was out on a personal day, my manager IMs me and emails me to connect with one of senior leaders of the department as the head of our team volunteered me for something with regards to the meeting. I emailed this woman that day, thinking she was just looking for prizes (I have a bunch of merchandise) so I emailed her, told her I was out Thursday and Friday but let me know what she needed. She tells me I was volunteered for an Olympic themed game. Fine. No idea what it was and when we got to the point of the meeting with the game, it was unclear of what we actually had to do. It was cute and stupid. Not work related. Everyone loved it. This woman then tells the entire department that I would be sending all the participants some swag. Oh?? First I heard - I was volunteered for that, too. But fine. She herself was sending the six of us Team USA hats and then emailed me with everyone's addresses to send them all a prize pack.

What gets me annoyed is I was one of the six participants. And the stuff I gathered to send everyone I already had. So, I basically don't get a prize pack because I'm the actual supplier of the prize pack. PLUS, I now have to make time to come into the office, pull the items together and ship it all out. It becomes additional work for me. They don't do the math to realize that one of the participants wouldn't be getting something and now have to take time out of my day to pack and ship stuff.

I hate that this stuff annoys me.
 
Reason #1212312 I am glad I changed jobs a few months ago, despite the significant pay cut.

In my absence, they combined my former team with another team in the "greater Ambulatory family" with that team's manager. Dude is great, and after a couple months adjustment they got on really really well. They also moved someone who's function was being sunset into a new role - a new sub-team. So my team of three managers went to two, then back to three with different alignments.

Fast forward to today - a scant 4 months after I left - and they laid off the guy that took my team and the "new" guy they brought in. Effective immediately.


Way to brutalize moral and guarantee service disruptions. What a disaster of an organization.
 
Swansong said:
Reason #1212312 I am glad I changed jobs a few months ago, despite the significant pay cut.

In my absence, they combined my former team with another team in the "greater Ambulatory family" with that team's manager. Dude is great, and after a couple months adjustment they got on really really well. They also moved someone who's function was being sunset into a new role - a new sub-team. So my team of three managers went to two, then back to three with different alignments.

Fast forward to today - a scant 4 months after I left - and they laid off the guy that took my team and the "new" guy they brought in. Effective immediately.


Way to brutalize moral and guarantee service disruptions. What a disaster of an organization.
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"A students go to grad school; B students go to law school; C students go to business school."
 
I've been asked "boy or girl" 470 times in the past week by kids with the 'tism.

My coworkers have simply said "you don't have to answer anything you don't want to." I've simply said "not appropriate" and redirected the question.

As THE trans employee on campus, I feel they're making an honest effort to keep me safe and comfortable.
 
We have quarterly department meetings - one time a year it's in person, so they fly in those employees that live out of state. One of my teammates lives in Milwaukee. We are all working on conferences this fall and one of them that she is managing happens to fall on the same dates as the department meeting. My manager asked me today if I would be OK going to the conference instead as my teammate rarely gets to see any of the senior department leads, etc. she should get some face time and what not. I think she was a little wary asking me because then I won't be at the department meeting. Little did she know that when we were talking about coverage with our agency yesterday, I was thinking to myself "I should offer to go because I don't like those in person department meetings." Ha! I always feel left out for some reason during them and I really can't stand them.

I need to now deal with taking care of my mom those days and I was planning to go see BU play Maine up in Maine that weekend but I'm OK with missing that.
 
The rules say we can't use physical management with the residents off grounds.

So why did clinical blow up plans to take kids to the library because I haven't been fully trained in physical management?

Also, if the rule is "physical management as a last resort," why would management encourage us to wrap youth up faster, especially if they're not harming themselves or others?
 
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