hiddengoat

Yay! More bearers of shit and misery news! There are dozens of us! Actually, probably way more given the size of the industries…

I got out a while back. Inherited a bit of money, took some time off. Unfortunately getting back in is proving impossible, so joy all around I guess.

Or maybe a different industry? Or maybe… get this… HRs FUCKING SUCK.

He didn’t have to deal with it. The firm I worked for was quite large and covered various specializations. I was a paralegal in estate planning. He was in… corporate contracts? Something like that. Even if he was the EP attorney he wouldn’t have to make the calls I did. You ever have to tell a 90 year old woman that her husband died without a will because your firm is incompetent? I have, among many more great hits of COVID. Yay trauma dumping!

Why do you automatically assume it’s a problem with them and not a shit-tier HR team whose idea of teambuilding is a fucking pizza party for 40 year old software engineers?

Do you like shit-tier pizza parties? Are you just a generally easy to please person? Do you expect no more than the bare fucking minimum from life?

The problem with that is it applies throughout the year. Those weren’t the only unattainable metrics.

To give you an idea of what this place was like, I was shitcanned because I spent too much time in “UNAVAILABLE” status. For two whole days I was “UNAVAILABLE.” It was on the last day of one month and the first day of the following month. When the next review came up I was auto-termed because I missed my “AVAILABLE” numbers two months in a row.

I was “UNAVAILABLE” because I had been promoted and was in training for two days. My trainer told me to be “UNAVAILABLE.”

Apparently that wasn’t a good enough reason for being “UNAVAILABLE.” Rather than correcting it or even trying to stick up for me my manager gave me a “Sorry, nothing I can do.”

Nordstrom, by the way. Garbage company. Do not work for them.

I lost all respect for an attorney I worked with when I saw that his LinkedIn was just covered with DeSantis/Abbott praise during COVID. The firm I was with did estate planning. We were so swamped in estate planning and probate (meaning a client had died) we had to bring on multiple new people to handle the caseload.

And this motherfucker was totally onboard with anti-mask garbage.

So I guess LinkedIn KIND OF works in that it tells you who the idiots are.

Someone I know online had a coworker that offered to fluff up my resume. First thing she asked “What’s your LinkedIn?” I don’t have one and don’t intend to have one. “Well there’s nothing I can really do if you don’t have a LinkedIn. Nobody will hire you without one.”

I’ll work for Nobody in that case. Probably a better employer than one that is so lazy they can’t even hire without a bullshit website telling them exactly what’s already on my resume.

If you give people good metrics to hit, they’ll hit them. If you don’t have good metrics then you rely on seeing asses in seats to know if people are working.

By the same token, if you give them stupid-ass metrics you create your own turnover.

I worked for a call center that had metrics based on prior month performance. If you didn’t match, you were out. Okay, fine, except this was retail. Oh, you didn’t take as many calls in January as you did in December? You’re out.

Welcome to corporate reality. It’s all run by idiots.