A place I used to work had to add a rule banning unicycles from the parking lot because of me.
The second half of this post is how I got through highschool. And college. And the military. “I didn't see anything about it in the handbook/UCMJ” was my motto. And I already realized hard work didn’t pay off, cuz I watched my siblings do that.
There are two ways to get through life. You can conform, which is hard for you but easy for everyone else, or you can find and exploit every loophole you can which is hard for you AND hard for everyone else. I’m not one to make things easy for other people unless its also easier for me, so..
Depends whom you're making it hard for, I suppose.
It's often easy to make things harder for those who already have it tough in life and little to no means to improve that. Let's find more worthy targets in our endeavours.
God damn if you were working that hard in your 20s that would suck.
Well yes, but also it's my hard work in my 20s that put me in a place where I'm paid enough that 50 hour months aren't catastrophic to my livelihood.
I know i serve for at least 2 examples. First one was as a a security guard, though that was back in my early 20s, on what not to do at work on some seminar. There was a video of me dosing off standing up. In my defense, i have ADHD and it was boring as hell job and it was impossible to make a living wage with normal hours so everyone had to do overtime massively.
Other one is at my current job, as a printing machine operator. It's rather important to make sure that the active runn in the machine is in correct way, aka facing the machine or the operator, etc. primarily for the next steps in production.
For one specific job i constantly messed it up and printed it the wrong way. Eventually design department did a special picture just for me, with my name on it. On how this certain run must face while in the machine. It had a human figure on it(with my name) the run and machine.
This picture still goes along with that job up to this day, though no one else afterwards hasn't messed it up in the threat that my name will be replaced by theirs.
Some previous employee's last name became slang for “a major fuck up” in one of my jobs. I don't think that's too uncommon.
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I'm the reason a single hardware store in a chain of stores has a specific policy. After they mix a can of paint, they offer the hammer to the customer and ask if they want to seal the lid themselves.
Can you elaborate for us? Did they just not seal it when they handed you paint?
It's not exciting.
I was a customer. The employee didn't seal the paint can properly, it spilled, caused damage to other things. I made a huge deal about it, ended up escalating to the owner of the store, got store credit for replacing things.
I had that with coffee and the other things was my balls.
Thankfully that was merely hot coffee, not burning hot. No demand for store credit to replace my balls was made.
I'm thinking they worked for the hardware store and bungled the sealing so catastrophically that the higher ups refuse to take any chances on the risk of such calamities reoccurring.
Dear young people entering the work force: your extra efforts will be rewarded with extra work. You won't be paid more or experience progress going this way; you'll be Sisyphus. If you work enough on networking and making the right friends, you might climb the ladder, but it will be at the expense of wife and kids, if you have those. Only a select few can have it all. Remember to focus on the important things while you can.
I agree. It isn't an absolute though: you can get employers to train you at their expense, and give you more work in exchange of raises that may not always be worth the effort, but there comes the most important thing that I wasn't told when I was younger and still seems to be a thing that some dinosaurs think: loyalty for employers only means you don't actively try to destroy the company, getting a better employer if the previous one won't pay enough or won't give you better working conditions is almost always easier than managing to convince a stubborn boss.
And always be a member of a union. If there isn't one, contact union people near you and they'll tell you how to do it, even if your boss is great you're better off in a union (companies can be sold…).
Amen. Like the song says, You can’t always get what you want, you get what you need.
Trying harder only hurts your body more and more, and you rarely see the results you hoped for.
Yeah. The best strategy is to do the average, network, and job hop once every year or so. Focus on your health, friends, and family.
Networking with seniors and managers is more likely to get you decent pay rises than being the most productive member of any team, but job hopping will likely net you far more; including leaving and coming back.
Job hopping is also very easy to explain during an interview.
Why did you leave this job. "I was seeking new opportunities for personal growth and development. The 30% pay raise wasn't bad either. "
Job hop every year? What kinda jobs are those
Bold to assume there are any entry level jobs for young people to get into the work force haha
Really does suck though. I'm just about at a point in my career where working hard has somewhat paid off (I'm pretty irreplaceable due to having very specific knowledge about our software and infrastructure). I'm absolutely using that power to ransom my manager into treating the Junior Dev I'm mentoring way better than he would otherwise. I'm actually insisting that he gets his promotion to Regular at least 6 months earlier than is company standard, as well as at least a 12% raise this year. Just because my Junior is great, so I'm giving him way easier access to my domain knowledge which makes him irreplaceable as well. And guess who's handing in her resignation tomorrow, so the company has to scramble for a replacement 😎
Still, if there's a time when you can give 110%, it's when you're young.
It CAN be good for experience, just don't expect rewards.
Capitalism is stupid, if I could go back. I would do it differently bcz my health suffered a lot working so much. I should have told them to pound sand.
You either make time or make money. Never both.
My 20s were spent in grad school hoping to change the world. My 30s were spent trying to survive.
If you're too competent you'll get promoted. Now you have to do all the same stuff you already did plus deal with a bunch of management shit. Literally anything is better than attending meeting after meeting, even work.
I want to always be the reason the angle grinder is missing.
Stealing it, hiding it, or both?
If you live in two countries and one is much cheaper than the other then you can work in the expensive one for higher pay and retire at 35 to 45 in the cheaper one.
That's the life of so many immigrants in France (and Europe, I expect).
The secret about cheaper countries is they're often very pleasant to live in if you're willing to give up some comforts. I don't have Uber eats but there's a guy I know with a motorcycle I call and he picks me food from anywhere that's around.
Dunno who downvoted you, but it's the truth, lol. Probably half of Balkan works in Central/Western Europe and plenty retire back in their home countries. The unfortunate situation is Balkan cost of living is inching closer and closer to Western Europe while QOL and wages either stagnate or actively worsen.
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