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The Machine Fired Me

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Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by Spooky23 »

toomanybeersies wrote: post #135
RandomInteger4 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to lie; that type of thing -- resigning right after getting promoted -- seems like something from some alternate reality fantasy world.

It is entirely possible they weren't planning on getting promoted. I was due for a performance review about a week before I handed my notice in at my old job. The review didn't happen because my boss was incapable of communicating with his employees and actually scheduling appointments with them, but had it happened, I was fully prepared to push for a payrise, even though it would only be a couple of dollars an hour,…

I had a similar thing happen, except the company was acquired and we thought we were being laid off. 30 days after I started with my new employer, I received notice of being equated to a higher rank in the new company, and a very significant stock grant.

Too late though. :)

Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by kamaal »

RandomInteger4 wrote: post #40
drewg123 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I resigned effective the 2nd of a month, and the promo was effective the 1st of the month. See above "resignation (slated to be effective after the promo)". So the resignation was scheduled for the day after the promo. I actually stayed an extra week to receive the promo.

I'm not going to lie; that type of thing -- resigning right after getting promoted -- seems like something from some alternate reality fantasy world.

One manager told me, he never tries to promote job hoppers no matter how well they perform.

They don't stay, and you end up wasting a perfectly valid promotion while some one who would stick longer with you could have got it.

Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by kamaal »

rinchik wrote: post #27
realo wrote: post #19

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This is interesting. On the one hand, you have been promoted to a new role, so you have reached a compatible level of expertise. You can put that role on your resume and sell yourself. On the other hand, you never, ever actually performed in that role, with the new responsibilities. How can you list that on your resume ! I am not sure what is the right answer here... but as your new employer I would take your last pr…

I'm not particularly familiar with the system at Google, but at any somewhat decent tech company in order to get a promotion you have to already perform as you would in your "future" role for some time, with higher-level expectations and responsibilities. For example, is someone with level I is up for level II promo, she/he has to match level II criteria long before actual promotion is due.

That's general HR pep talk.

In reality promotions mostly happen in organizations due to political lobbying with the powers.

Even in these 'decent' tech companies you will see some people getting rapidly promoted and moving up the hierarchy, while genuine performers are stuck in the process and minutiae. Its just what kind of leverage your manager has with the upper management.

Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by brokenmachine »

Oh god, I recognize that stupid CA Service Desk Manager in those emails.

The team responsible for designing that abomination should be locked in a maze with traps and forced to log tickets for every trap or door they need to escape or get through.

Any managers responsible for choosing it should have to log two tickets...

Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by hcknwscommenter »

paulie_a wrote: post #193
isostatic wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely a 3 year contract means the company is in breach of it by not paying you?

How do you think you will enforce that contract? Hire a lawyer? You might as well go to the ATM grab as much cash as you possible. Then put it all in a garbage can and light a match. It will be far less costly and more productive then attempting pursue that contract.

Sue in small claims court for week 1. Win. Obtain judgment. File lien against company assets. Sue in small claims court for week 2. Win. Obtain judgment. File lien against company assets. Repeat as necessary. Offer settlement in return for not suing anymore.

Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by Yizahi »

def8cefe wrote: post #101
useful wrote: post #74

I've had this happen, myself and an employee who I had signed the termination paperwork for shared the same first name and someone put my name in instead of his. It was hell for at least a month as different automated systems kicked in and disabled my accounts, benefits, and payments. Worse, the first notification email happened while I was presenting to the CEO and the HR contact in the meeting had noticed half way…

> No one was able to stop the machine because no one really knew all the different processes or they weren't built to stop midway. This is (in my opinion) one of the reasons why everyone talking about getting rid of dedicated IT ops in their organizations is making a mistake. You can have devs building integrations and automation all day, but you still need sysadmins who can see the whole picture and override them wh…

I had a situation once, when Symantec firewall stopped working on my company laptop. Not the whole SEP suite, not the antivirus, just the firewall part. After 2 months I got my first angry email from robot, then I started getting them every month with big red text trying to scare me with every possible corporate hell, and it gradually started to CC it to higher and higher management in the company. Meanwhile nobody could fix it and it didn't help that IT support was outsourced to another country (I called them several times with zero results). At some point said managers started visiting me personally (because I assume their inaction was escalated even further). In the end nobody fixed this specifically, but I managed to accidentally do it when fixing virtualbox install - after increasing some obscure "Network Filter" limit in Windows both SEP and VB started working again.

I think wasn't auto fired like OP only because such trigger wasn't implemented in the company, yet. No IT support available can be really bad.

Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by ionwake »

duxup wrote: post #200
bonyt wrote: post #161

This is literally an episode of Better Off Ted.[1] In it, the titular Ted is inadvertenly deleted from the company system when trying to correct a misspelling of his last name. Eventually, he is forced to interview for his own job as the system had already put out an ad for his replacement. I think the most striking part of it, and of the true story from the post, is the human factor - the idea that the humans involv…

In the book Catch 22 the character "Major Major Major" is made a ... Major, I belive due to an IBM computer error.

Good Catch

Re: The Machine Fired Me

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Post by monksy »

kamaal wrote: post #222
RandomInteger4 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to lie; that type of thing -- resigning right after getting promoted -- seems like something from some alternate reality fantasy world.

One manager told me, he never tries to promote job hoppers no matter how well they perform. They don't stay, and you end up wasting a perfectly valid promotion while some one who would stick longer with you could have got it.

Wouldn't that give incentive to not stay?
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