Yeah.... I had to get CEO of the place letting me go to phone the boss of the place I was going back just to insist that I wasn't getting sacked, just getting let go. Kinda humiliating.
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Yeah.... I had to get CEO of the place letting me go to phone the boss of the place I was going back just to insist that I wasn't getting sacked, just getting let go. Kinda humiliating.
yeah my last job turned out to be bollox so I contacted my previous boss to let him know. I worked closely with him and we got on well. He tried to engineer a position for me but couldn't swing it (thanks to Putin).
I also did return to a job I left before. Had been in it 7 years, and went back and did another 9. Both stints ended in redundancies. Cha-ching!
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Everyone's done it at some point, probably
When we look at a new place, we take for granted all the shit that the current place has. Then we move and none of it's there. It's why it's wise to never burn bridges.
The biggest issue is getting it out of your head what other people will think, and reminding yourself why you're doing it.
There's a story about Ulysses S. Grant, West Point grad trying to make a go of his ranch and selling firewood by the side of the road. A West Point buddy encounters him and basically is horrified "Good God, Grant - what are you doing?" type of thing.
"I'm solving the problem of poverty"
Point being that no task should be beneath us, if it is on a path to what we want for ourselves in life.
And few quid earned honestly, is never a thing to be ashamed of. No work is beneath us.
You could change the narrative from "crawling back to an old workplace" to "smart enough to leave on good terms, that I might have a good Plan B".
No one else gives much of a fuck how these things look, only ourselves really.
Beat that, and you got the whole world beat.
ETA Excuse me. I go on a bit.
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"Fuck yiz all" goodbye emails are common in my place, which always seems to me like spitefully shooting yourself in the foot. Maybe in a country as big as the US you're less likely to run into people again
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I think it's also that you have to have lived some shit before you know not to be needlessly stupid
The frequency of these must go down as people get older and cop the fuck on
Current work is six 12 hour days. With south Americans who don't speak English. And there's no standing around, there's no waiting for something to happen. It's 12 hours of GO.
And I'm stupid enough to have decided the path of least resistance is to just do stuff and get left alone. So that's quite draining. My other lads are complaining about being called lazy. Because well, they are a bit. But also they don't know what they should be doing because no one speaks English to tell them what to do.
Big boss worked in the US for a while and has a warped understanding of American logistical efficiency. This led to me and him having a proper shouting match on day one, hour one. He seemed to think he could shout at me instead of shouting at every single other person there, or indeed just having a look at himself. Me, like? He knows me. This fucker would be lost without me on a job like this. Luckily for him he's a foaf, so one day soon he can buy me a pint and I can call him a dickhead to his face.
Four days left.
He wasn't in today, it was noticeably nicer. Other people got less shit done, I got way more done.
And I'm stupid enough to have decided the path of least resistance is to just do stuff and get left alone. So that's quite draining. My other lads are complaining about being called lazy. Because well, they are a bit. But also they don't know what they should be doing because no one speaks English to tell them what to do.
Big boss worked in the US for a while and has a warped understanding of American logistical efficiency. This led to me and him having a proper shouting match on day one, hour one. He seemed to think he could shout at me instead of shouting at every single other person there, or indeed just having a look at himself. Me, like? He knows me. This fucker would be lost without me on a job like this. Luckily for him he's a foaf, so one day soon he can buy me a pint and I can call him a dickhead to his face.
Four days left.
He wasn't in today, it was noticeably nicer. Other people got less shit done, I got way more done.
This is a very simple problem, but...
I ain't no electrician, but I was running cables and plugging in lights the other day, and there was a trip. And I did, to my own surprise, succeed in finding the cause of the trip. By plugging things in and out until something tripped.
Luckily for me, the actual electricians had set up just next to me. So when I shouted "FUCKING HELL" , after the third trip, they came to my aid.
Turns out it was a dodgy cable. Also turns out the electricians son wired and tested all those cables. Electricians son is now not allowed out until he learns to terminate cables and not lie.
Later another whole five stands I'd wired up got changed around, and everything tripped again. Someone had rewired all my imperfect but acceptable, basic and understandable work and fucked it. We're a day behind schedule on the build as a whole, showtime is Monday. Maybe these guys should be moving deckchairs on the Titanic.
*I should make clear, this is just plugging things into things. It ain't easy to fuck this up, from what I was asked to do.
I ain't no electrician, but I was running cables and plugging in lights the other day, and there was a trip. And I did, to my own surprise, succeed in finding the cause of the trip. By plugging things in and out until something tripped.
Luckily for me, the actual electricians had set up just next to me. So when I shouted "FUCKING HELL" , after the third trip, they came to my aid.
Turns out it was a dodgy cable. Also turns out the electricians son wired and tested all those cables. Electricians son is now not allowed out until he learns to terminate cables and not lie.
Later another whole five stands I'd wired up got changed around, and everything tripped again. Someone had rewired all my imperfect but acceptable, basic and understandable work and fucked it. We're a day behind schedule on the build as a whole, showtime is Monday. Maybe these guys should be moving deckchairs on the Titanic.
*I should make clear, this is just plugging things into things. It ain't easy to fuck this up, from what I was asked to do.
Genuinely finding this aspect hard to get my head arouhd. No one task I've been given is completely off the wall, I just know so little of the lay of the land yet to be of much use. And man, acronym soup.
it'll come to you in time, just enjoy the tea breaks until it does
When I started in my current job I was going from a position where I knew more or less everything about the place to one where I knew nothing. Was at an all-staff meetup about 5 months after I started, playing pool with a guy who told me it'd take 18 months to feel like I knew anything - put me at my ease a bit (and turned out to be true)
I can relate to this. 6 months before you start contributing meaningfully, 1.5 to 2 years before you are at full proficiency. Thats why now, as a manager, I will fight to keep my lads. Its a shitshow if one of them leaves.
Have you ever been put in a position where you're just totally out of your depth?
Not me, but some chap today had the job description of "to guarantee everything works". Normally it does, and it's loads of money for a doss. But today it didn't work. So my poor man became the most important person in the building and didn't know what to do. Even the fire was on fire.
Absolutely nothing I could do to help, so I just stayed out of the way. But that kind of stress is highly contagious. If I was in his shoes I think I might have just vomited and run away. There were several other concurrent issues too. Damn, this is supposed to be fun. The dude really shouldn't have been put in that position. Unfair on everyone.
Not me, but some chap today had the job description of "to guarantee everything works". Normally it does, and it's loads of money for a doss. But today it didn't work. So my poor man became the most important person in the building and didn't know what to do. Even the fire was on fire.
Absolutely nothing I could do to help, so I just stayed out of the way. But that kind of stress is highly contagious. If I was in his shoes I think I might have just vomited and run away. There were several other concurrent issues too. Damn, this is supposed to be fun. The dude really shouldn't have been put in that position. Unfair on everyone.
Hah, what a stupid job. Professional scapegoat
Most people I know who do it do really know their stuff. And they have other jobs so they can take or leave it if it goes wrong.
Our friend did get all the support we could give him, but yeah, shit job if you're not ready for it.
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I know a lot of people who deliberately put themselves forward for those situations, because they think they know tonnes of shit but they don't, and they see it as a way to get more money and more jobs in the future.
Surely been mentioned before but:
I don't think that that was the case here. I think he got lobbed into the deep end by his lazy bosses. It'll be fine, it's always fine! And then it wasn't and we all had a horrible day.
I don't think that that was the case here. I think he got lobbed into the deep end by his lazy bosses. It'll be fine, it's always fine! And then it wasn't and we all had a horrible day.
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