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MissThundercat said:
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That was a poem
from a simpler time.

Boss makes a dollar
I don't make jack
That's why I riot
To seize the means back.
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I recently found out my boss likely makes 2x what I do. I didn't like that given he's going to have everyone leave his department because his management style is "don't rock the boat"

Out previous boss, who reported to this boss, was the opposite. Spent all of his political capital on doing what was best for his employees. All of it.
 
The irony is the "boss" is just another prisoner on the plantation. They're just the overseer.

The owner is the parasite. And the owner is also in a trap, since they are locked in a moral and financial death spiral with the other owners. A global prison where literally nobody wins except the handful of fortunate sons who live off the proceeds.

Jesus what a system. It's a gang, where you are beaten in and then have to continually adhere to the code of violence or face reprisal yourself. And we put our kids through a conveyor belt training them up to be cogs under the guise of "education."

The last gasp of the territorial gorilla brain evolved in a world of resource scarcity.
 
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Kepler said:
The irony is the "boss" is just another prisoner on the plantation. They're just the overseer.

The owner is the parasite. And the owner is also in a trap, since they are locked in a moral and financial death spiral with the other owners. A global prison where literally nobody wins except the handful of fortunate sons who live off the proceeds.

Jesus what a system. It's a gang, where you are beaten in and then have to continually adhere to the code of violence or face reprisal yourself. And we put our kids through a conveyor belt training them up to be cogs under the guise of "education."

The last gasp of the territorial gorilla brain evolved in a world of resource scarcity.
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I was asked to work a double on Friday, and while I left it at "no," I wanted to respond with "I could, but do you feel like scraping me off the floor at 8 PM?"
 
Today is my 23rd anniversary with the company. It is also my manager's anniversary, 13 or so years apart. What are the odds?
 
Scarlet said:
Today is my 23rd anniversary with the company. It is also my manager's anniversary, 13 or so years apart. What are the odds?
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That's cool! Congrats! I just hit my unofficial 6th, however the first 6 months of that was with a staffing agency and doesn't officially count.
 
Watching part of corporate Global Town Halls is boring. I watch part, 'cause I can't with the whole thing. I have work that I need to do, and hearing about how we're striving to be "employer of choice" but no actual details on how you're doing that...super. Thanks for throwing that 1 line in to make it sound like you care about employees, now you can get back to spending the rest of the hour and a half about stakeholders, customers, and how we are going to take over the competition. cool.

Getting very high on the burnout this week. Too many projects, too many initiatives, not enough time has me putting in 9-10 hours in the plant and then still coming home and working, and still nowhere near keeping up with the workload.

I don't want to quit, but I would like my company to realize if they expect to increase revenue in our plant by 50% each year they might need to hire more indirect heads. We need to buy 50% more items, but no new buyers, schedule 50% more product, no new schedulers, add 5 new to us product lines, no new manufacturing engineers, qualify 30 top level new to us parts for customers, no new quality engineers

"we want to be best in class quality" cool, then invest in automation, don't continue to offer to make items that we make 1 of a year unless it's offered at a prototype price, 'cause it's basically a prototype, and maybe hire some indirect heads.


/past my bedtime and logged into my work computer
/rant
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
Watching part of corporate Global Town Halls is boring. I watch part, 'cause I can't with the whole thing. I have work that I need to do, and hearing about how we're striving to be "employer of choice" but no actual details on how you're doing that...super. Thanks for throwing that 1 line in to make it sound like you care about employees, now you can get back to spending the rest of the hour and a half about stakeholders, customers, and how we are going to take over the competition. cool.

Getting very high on the burnout this week. Too many projects, too many initiatives, not enough time has me putting in 9-10 hours in the plant and then still coming home and working, and still nowhere near keeping up with the workload.

I don't want to quit, but I would like my company to realize if they expect to increase revenue in our plant by 50% each year they might need to hire more indirect heads. We need to buy 50% more items, but no new buyers, schedule 50% more product, no new schedulers, add 5 new to us product lines, no new manufacturing engineers, qualify 30 top level new to us parts for customers, no new quality engineers

"we want to be best in class quality" cool, then invest in automation, don't continue to offer to make items that we make 1 of a year unless it's offered at a prototype price, 'cause it's basically a prototype, and maybe hire some indirect heads.


/past my bedtime and logged into my work computer
/rant
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Sounds eeeeeerily familiar.
 
Yeah you always gotta love the "hey help us meet our bonuses!" presentations. Maybe they dangle you along for a 3% raise instead of the usual 2%!
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
We keep cuttting headcount while demanding growth.

im so miserable I just got a ps5 to try and take my mind off the misery
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Harvard MBAs figured out if you fire half the staff the other half works twice as hard to avoid being fired.

We will never be free until the last owner is strangled with the entrails of the last financier.
 
Swansong said:
Yeah you always gotta love the "hey help us meet our bonuses!" presentations. Maybe they dangle you along for a 3% raise instead of the usual 2%!
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My last 8 years at Raytheon my raise never exceeded 4%. I moved to a tiny company, got a 25% increase in salary, and this year they gave me a 6% raise.

I was an absolute fool to hang on for 16 years but I got my pension muthaf-cka.
 
Kepler said:
Harvard MBAs figured out if you fire half the staff the other half works twice as hard to avoid being fired.

We will never be free until the last owner is strangled with the entrails of the last financier.
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A huge shout out to bartenders, neighborhood weed dealers, and line cooks for doing more for society than any CEO at any point in human history.
 
Kepler said:
Harvard MBAs figured out if you fire half the staff the other half works twice as hard to avoid being fired.

We will never be free until the last owner is strangled with the entrails of the last financier.
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I was told on here people like this kind of stress.
 
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