Posted on 10/22/2015 2:12:22 AM PDT by markomalley
I like that.
We think much alike.
lol
I’m not going to complain about my severance package anymore. It was 5 months pay in exchange for a one year non-compete agreement. The non-compete went away when the attorney from my prospective employer mentioned the “L” word to the attorney of the previous employer. Litigate. They were willing to file a lawsuit to get me.
Had they called me then for advice, I would have told them to take a flying leap. But recently, my former boss, who had nothing to do with my untimely departure called for some advice for a presentation he was giving to an industry group. That I was glad to provide.
I’m not a code guy, but my wife was a COBOL programmer before we had kids. Your meme reminds me of a story she told me. She worked for a large car leasing firm that could place orders directly into the car companies systems. One of her co-workers was modifying a program and flagged a car order for a test. Naturally, she ordered the biggest and most expensive car Chrysler made at the time, plugged in a bunch of option and paint color codes, none of which probably matched and sent in the order.
Somebody at Chrysler saw the order, thought the test flag was a mistake and removed it. By the time she noticed, the car was in the order queue and it was determined to be cheaper to make it and scrap it than to try to remove it from the queue. Ooops.
-— If you, as a corporate manager for (as an example) Jack-In-The-Box, take an action that is best in the long term but might temporarily reduce returns for a quarter or two in order to achieve long-term growth, you will be called on the carpet like nothing you’ve ever seen because your shareholders (the majority of whom are institutional owners, such as Black Rock Small Cap Growth) won’t tolerate a loss of returns for even a quarter.-—
So true.
My wife works for a major supermarket chain that changes hands regularly. The most recent acquisition was by an investment group. They thought of a novel idea —cutting staff and budgets.
But it wasn’t a novel idea. The store where my wife works was already badly understaffed. Long lines, messy shelves, postponed maintenance, etc.
Who knows how many loyal customers they’ve lost? But the manager keeps cutting and getting bonuses. The employees? Not so much.
If I was king I’d use profit-sharing as an incentive, like Costco and TJ’s. At TJ’s the employees are so attentive they’re like a bunch of Hare Krishnas. And the business is flourishing.
Load directory list into array DirArray
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The H1B program is so evil it is not funny, we should do it like Japan where companies are free to hire foriegners as long as they have a visa, however they need pay them 25% more for that position, works out for them.
Sun Trust is insane for this sort of behavior. If I had a nickle in that bank, I would take it out immediately.
I have made it a point to OFFER to be available to former employers, but to BE REQUIRED might make my code a little less stellar.
I would hope I would not make any fatal coding errors, but you never know.
To be bested by "I don't always implement new financial systems, but when I do, I don't run them in parallel to the old systems."
How many folks on this forum know what a BOFH is without looking it up? How many people on this forum have ever been a BOFH?
Wow. I worked at a GM Assembly Division plant many years ago and saw something like this happen once or twice.
They didn't even try to remove the car from the line. They simply found the manifests in several parts of the plant (cushion room, paint, frame line, etc) and pulled what they could...like seats...and covered frames and such with blue tarps and let the thing ride to the final line...then they would move it aside. Mistakes happen. But to complete a car and then scrap it? Odd.
. . . Or train their replacements. Can you hear the clicking of the delete key as we converse here? All that documentation being flushed. Design docs getting hosed.
If I were a SunTrust customer I’d be running for the exits. Quite possibly the stupidest people ever to run a company.
What clap trap. Big cap manufactures LOVE regulations and taxes because it keeps the "little guy" start ups out of the market. The offshoring of manufacturing was simply to shave off a few pennies on the dollar by exploiting the huge wage difference between a first world country and a turd world country. The US consumer does not realize any savings and quality has suffered.
Sorta like...
would you really want to eat a cake that you forced someone to bake for you?
Zactoknife.
Sheee-uh. I don’t remember what the code does that I worked on yesterday.
You can call all you want but I can’t remember anything.
Or,
“Ok you need to go to your command line and type this in verbatim......’sudo rm -rf /’ That should fix ‘er right up.”
I agree with those who suspect there’s more to this story. As stated this is absolutely suicidal. It’s like telling your heart surgeon just before the transplant operation that you’ve wrecked his car and got his daughter pregnant and hey, I hope we can still be pals...
perhaps it should be considered as not severance but as a retainer
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