cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20260044
I thought I was the only one who lived this experience. It's fucking suffering constantly wondering if I'm next because my team is in a downturn.
This is way too real. Company I work for has 100% played people off, pulled access, and until they call in saying 'something's wrong' there's no warning. I've seen entire departments get gutted, only to see all of those jobs outsourced to WiPro.
"Is anyone else constantly getting logged out of slack?" - The last message I ever got from my favourite co-worker.
This hit too close to home. I'm now in my second forced job change in 3 years, and honestly I'm trying to make the most of it by using this job change to move to a larger city, just like how I used my last job change for a big bump in pay and benefits. It's been a goal to move for better resources for my special needs child, but now it's also about ensuring more resiliencey in my finances because if the next place lays me off I'll actually have no shortage of places to work within a 30 minute commute rather than commuting an hour like I did a year and a half ago and like I'm likely to start doing again soon. This shit makes me seriously wonder how people manage to work at places for 20 or 30 years straight
Or for the political bent, we need to make layoffs more expensive and tip the balances on mergers and acquisitions to make those far harder. Force companies to pivot to meet a competitor or die
Having a job sucks. Not having a job, and constantly being ignored or rejected does a number on my mental health too.
A company I applied for gave me a take home assignment, I said that I would only do it if they pay me. They said they would pay me. The project took me about 2.5 months. Now they have rejected me saying it is not good enough, didn’t pay me for the work I have done. It has been an all-around hell week for me. I hate being taken advantage of like that. Fuck whatever enables people or companies like this.
Two and a half months is insane for a practical skills demonstration for a job interview. Those should be a couple of hours at most.
Perhaps the biggest joke was why they rejected me. Apparently I only used “basic concepts of object oriented programming.” I found that to be the best because using anything more advanced might diffuse the logic too much, something I didn’t like. But, no, they probably think I should use everything in “Clean Code” because they probably worship that book.
"Clean" because all the code that does anything is split into countless three line "atomic functions" and buried under layers of observables and factories I bet.
i hate that our profession has been overtaken by that snake oil. my goal is to some day fill my own development company with developers smart enough to see through that bullshit and reject it.
no leetcode interviews, no take home tests, no bullshit. what a dream. now if i could just stop getting scammed by clients who don’t pay...
I am too poor to open a development company. But, if I ever did, I would want it to be employee owned, with employees having power to oust the entire executive team. Clients who don’t wanna pay are too fucking common.
Bro, which company expected you to do a take home assignment that took 2.5 months? Name and shame the fuckers.
The company is called GeoStru, which is their Sales and Marketing. The offshoot of that, that is responsible for development is called Engsoft SRL. It is located in Romania.
Fire is free for you and for me.
We need to signal boost this, if true, because that is an egregious waste of someone's time and a theft of their due compensation.
Having a job sucks.
Not having a job wouldn't suck if it wasn't for the fact it usually means you also have no money.
Having no money sucks.
It would be cool beans to not have a job, but have money.
Having a job is fine. Having something that gives you purpose is actually healthy for you. But I guess it depends what you do and you need to work for someone nice. It is the mandatory part and the "squeezing every penny out of you" part that sucks most.
Also, switching jobs when it gets tedious might be a good plan. Make sure to stick around for a couple years though, or else they'll see on your CV that you won't stick around long enough to be worth the effort.
Isn't it wonderful when your VPN client refuses to connect repeatedly until you realize you need to reboot your PC or restart the VPN service... and then go change your underwear.
Me when I badge into my office, and the reader doesn't let me in on the first swipe.
literally my life on most jobs, fuck capitalism
Cool.
Post it across as many parallel subs on the fediverse as possible. Nobody will notice. It's not like they're connected or will stack them together based on when you post them or anything.
Oh no you noticed. Maybe I shouldn't make this post a crosspost that literally links to original /s
It's for people that don't subscribe to both subs. You can always ignore the second one and scroll away.
Most don't subscribe to either. It's the fediverse.
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