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01-11-2023, 12:59 PM | #573 | |
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I was trying to quality my opinion by saying this is my experience based on working for the large company I work for, not trying to speak for others. Thanks for keeping me honest though and sounds like you have a senior VP that gets it.
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01-11-2023, 01:41 PM | #575 | |
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Our current reality is that we can no longer blame Covid or supply-chain issues for our revenue shortfalls. Meanwhile our competitors are growing and grabbing our market share and have shown strong recovery post-covid. The majority of these shortfalls are due to strategic decisions made prior to covid that we are paying for now; has nothing to do with employees not being in the office and our CEO is tone-deaf on the topic.
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01-11-2023, 02:11 PM | #576 |
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I also work for a large global corporation under another even larger multinational corporation, in the defense industry. Naturally, the folks in operations worked right through COVID, but the SBU VPs have relative autonomy, so at site A, some have pushed for return to the office, at site B, they don't give two hoots. Overall though corporate has been supportive of WFH, not really making any efficiency/inefficiency arguments, just generally noting that we have been successful as a whole through COVID. Profits are good, bonuses are being paid. However, I have noticed a significant decrease of WFH jobs on the career site, most are now hybrid or on-site, even for the corporate/business support functions.
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I think this puts us around 13-14k employees? With the owning company around 170k between all the different GBU's. |
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01-12-2023, 02:10 PM | #579 |
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Definitely an interesting topic.
I think it's half true.... work-stress/pressure is 50% self-induced and 50% external factors (expectations/deadlines/politics/leadership/direct reports etc). But that also depends on field of work I'd imagine. I just got out of a "war room" this morning where I spent half the meeting aligning teams through massive disconnect - the reason for this disconnect? recent reorgs without proper execution at the executive level. Tempers flair in those situations since it becomes a finger-pointing session of responsibilities and it's my job to make sure the teams align on where those responsibilities lie. As for the other 50% that IS self-induced - yeah.... either you're not doing your job and missing deadlines and the pressure builds up, or you're overly dedicated to your job and sacrificing personal commitments.
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01-14-2023, 09:44 AM | #580 |
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That's a good question.
I worry because I've been through and/or missed lay offs at every company I've been at. And got hit 2 times with layoffs. My fiance was just laid off on Thursday, they gave her a big salary to come in and get a bunch of new clients setup.........then hired some kids for half her salary and sent her packing. "Because of budget issues" |
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I have no idea if this is an unpopular opinion... but....
Peanut butter M&Ms > peanut M&Ms > regular M&Ms
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Favorite candy is Reese's Big Cups. PS - my opinion is probably NOT unpopular.
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01-14-2023, 03:24 PM | #583 | |
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The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation...It's bullsh*t. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal...Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy?
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Not sure if it has been said or if you will come for my head, but it is ok to buy replacement parts from somewhere else besides the dealer.
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I think this is somewhat related to a few of the other opinions that have been circulated in this thread. I think as a whole, North American society has become much more vocal about classifying the things that make them uncomfortable as being wrong/unfair/hostile.
The whole employer/employee agreement in a salaried job is that the employer will give the employee assignments and tasks to accomplish within that work week. In theory, the compensation is not just for production, but also as a way to offset the stress/uncomfortable-ness of the work. The employer pays a salary for an end product, but also pays knowing that it might be stressful at times to produce that end product on time. If it were easy for just anyone to meet the deadlines, the salary would be lower. So yes, I think a lot of employers ask for way too much to get accomplished in too short an amount of time. But I also think a lot of employees feel as if any work-related pressure is completely unfair, even though that's literally what they are being paid for. Everyone wants to get the best end of the deal... employers want to get great production for lower pay, and employees want great salaries for easy jobs. Neither should be getting what they want 100% of the time. But it is unreasonable to act like you should feel no work related stress at all, and I do think a lot of that is self-inflicted due to these unreasonable expectations. |
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I also think it is 50% true. I think a lot of stress is related to your environment and outside factors, like how stable your job is, how easily your co-workers are to get along with, political pressures within the office environment, etc. Not to mention the pace and general attitude of the work you do. I manage the technology for one of the departments on a college campus. There are certain times that can be stressful or have pressure due to unplanned events that happen, time of the semester, working with individuals that are untrustworthy or corrupt, or having deadlines to meet. As a whole the job is not a high stress environment compared to say a hospital trauma center where it can be life and death, or a job where your income fluctuates depending on factors outside of your control. Quote:
The last time my E90 saw a dealer was for a recall, and I chuckled to myself as the techs looked for something they could sell me on, only to realize I take meticulous care of the car, it has no leaks, and the only thing they could try to sell me was a $1700 set of run flat tires since the Michelins I had on it were not factory run flats.
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Another unpopular opinion is that you do not need a torque wrench for every single nut and bolt. Guaranteed there are techs running down some bolts with a gun and calling it a day. You can also start a bolt into the threads right from the gun and not cross thread anything. -A lot of people seem to think this is completely inappropriate, but it’s pretty easy not to cross thread, lol. |
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1. 2017-2021 forever changed how I view both “patriotism” and religion. 2. Spending an entire weekend (or multiple weekends) on the couch watching sports is not an ideal use of anyone’s time. 3. Parents have no business meddling in your marriage. 4. Cats are a$$h0les. 5. Horse Power does not equal exhilaration. 6. Nu Metal produced some of the best bands ever. Last edited by Gratefulm4; 01-15-2023 at 01:00 PM.. |
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01-23-2023, 03:07 PM | #593 | |
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But I read an article this morning on how they WAAAAAAY over hired between 2019 and last year. Amazon doubled in size, Meta 94%, Alphabet 57%, Microsoft 53%. I'm still not 100% confident of anything, but we didn't way over hire like that. I'm sure she will, she's very good at what she does. Her old job has already told her they'd be happy to have her back, but she isn't sure if she's willing to take the paycut to go back. |
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If your predisposed towards having a mental illness weed can either trigger it or enhance it.
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