This Business and Moment...

Someone discovered at work that one of our systems filters the characters of incel as a swear word if the letters appear in order within a block of ~10 characters including spaces forward or backwards LOL - I'm assuming regex fail or something like that. The first time it happened they were writing documentation with "in cell" which came out as "** ***l".

(It is used to capture customer feedback as well so has fairly broad filtering of undesirable language)
 
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I need to stop working on the weekends... I don't do it because I have to, but because I get ideas and have to capture them but then get distracted with other bits. Problem is I don't resent it and enjoy it and only really do it when the kids are out or in bed so I don't miss out on family time. It's a bad habit as I'm also exploring doing an MSc (for fun) so will need to manage my time more effectively.

It's also convinced me to put forward a the case to increase my team. Despite having an amazing admin it's not going to change the work I want to deliver which is more than I currently can by myself.

Just a brain dump rather than anything else.
 
Freefaller said:
I need to stop working on the weekends... I don't do it because I have to, but because I get ideas and have to capture them but then get distracted with other bits. Problem is I don't resent it and enjoy it
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I have the same problem, despite my managers keep telling me off for it - I'm still using holidays from last year because I've built up soe much TOIL it's getting a bit silly. But I get so much work done that I enjoy outside of my hours. I don't have kids, and I would most likely spend the time playing video games or reading fiction.
 
Getting ***** off with the job hunt. It seems taking 6 months off to help the mrs, now looking for a job for 6 months, having any group interactions with a large company means I'm rejected on the first binning as being too senior or not senior enough. I had the second interview with AWS last week and rejected today.
I think the only way forward at this time is to contract project/programme to build my own consultancy. I spend more time search and applying that stops you from studying, plus the price increases mean doing a degree course or anything in formal education is not an option.

I hear there's a PM job going soon.. comes with it's own London digs too.. (at least my humour is intact).
 
NickK said:
I spend more time search and applying that stops you from studying, plus the price increases mean doing a degree course or anything in formal education is not an option.
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Just do it part-time, student loans are now available for post-grad courses, you can always top up with a commercial loan if needed and there are more flexible options than ever before. Some MSc or MBA courses are specifically designed for part-time study via distance learning or evening courses or indeed having to take holiday and spend say a week at a time on campus.

Other options, if your employer is flexible, are where universities haven't really designed a particular course for part-time study but are prepared to offer it on a part-time basis (i.e. letting you enroll and split the modules 50/50 across two years) - you'll generally need flexibility for this as the lectures/tutorials are in the daytime though I guess these days (especially post covid) lectures will typically be recorded and so you could probably watch them remotely at work or just watch in the evening, albeit you miss the opportunity to ask questions.
 
dowie said:
Just do it part-time, student loans are now available for post-grad courses, you can always top up with a commercial loan if needed and there are more flexible options than ever before. Some MSc or MBA courses are specifically designed for part-time study via distance learning or evening courses or indeed having to take holiday and spend say a week at a time on campus.

Other options, if your employer is flexible, are where universities haven't really designed a particular course for part-time study but are prepared to offer it on a part-time basis (i.e. letting you enroll and split the modules 50/50 across two years) - you'll generally need flexibility for this as the lectures/tutorials are in the daytime though I guess these days (especially post covid) lectures will typically be recorded and so you could probably watch them remotely at work or just watch in the evening, albeit you miss the opportunity to ask questions.
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I did look at a CISSP certification 6 day course - £6800 classroom or £5800 online last night. The issue is it's certification - a foot in the door but then you have no experience in security to back it up when it comes to interviews (naturally you can say what you ought to do but no experience in doing it).
 
NickK said:
Getting ***** off with the job hunt. It seems taking 6 months off to help the mrs, now looking for a job for 6 months, having any group interactions with a large company means I'm rejected on the first binning as being too senior or not senior enough. I had the second interview with AWS last week and rejected today.
I think the only way forward at this time is to contract project/programme to build my own consultancy. I spend more time search and applying that stops you from studying, plus the price increases mean doing a degree course or anything in formal education is not an option.

I hear there's a PM job going soon.. comes with it's own London digs too.. (at least my humour is intact).
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I know feeling!

Started a new job back in February then a new management team came in and decided I was actually no longer needed at the end of May :mad:

Was back on the job market searching for the last two months. Even with all my certifications and experience it was an challenge for senior roles, so many rejections, 3 to 4 interviews a week. It got frustrating more than anything else. During this time by girlfriend decided "I'm not happy" So we split up and she moved out of the apartment. She couldn't have timed that any better :rolleyes:

Thankfully, I was offered a job last week and I start on Monday. More money than I was in my previous job which is a good thing. But it was a wake up call to move on quicker to build my own consultancy.
 
NickK said:
I did look at a CISSP certification 6 day course - £6800 classroom or £5800 online last night. The issue is it's certification - a foot in the door but then you have no experience in security to back it up when it comes to interviews (naturally you can say what you ought to do but no experience in doing it).
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That seems more like the sort of thing you'd just get an employer to pay for if you're actually working in that area and/or it would be useful for your role.

I guess you could do an IT security-related MSc, if you have a course that offers the option to do a dissertation with an external/industrial supervisor then that can be a good way into a company. Likewise there are other MSc courses that you could use the dissertation to get into a particular industry - for example, data science/ML courses you could still probably take some security-related elective module(s) and then just pick a relevant dissertation, perhaps an academic one within a security research group at the university or with an industry partner (could be a private company or a government department).
 
Changed the Admin system password on Monday, I've locked us out numerous times now but not as many times as my boss (whose idea it was) :cry: Very sweary office this week....
 
Ev0 said:
Tried to write out a post with the details of my dilemma and it became a bit of a monster.

To try a and summarise, currently tech pre sales for large vendor. I Like my role and products I work with (a market leader), package is very good, but there are issues on the counter part sales team side which are having a knock on effect to earnings.

Small specialist vendor with competitive product offered me a role, same base, but you’d hope a sales team that’s running ok as this is all they do.

Benefits better at current big co, but the smaller place is pre ipo (2-3 year expectation).

I’m torn as is genuinely really like where I am now, excellent money and work life balance, just some of the things outside of my immediate team which impact me are not good and aren’t going to be getting better for a while.
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First week at the new place this week! Going ok so far...

@NickK what sort of role are you looking for, any particular position, sector etc?
 
Context: My boss is currently unable to think about how to come up with a funding model and strategy for products and based on last years, we've got $0 left already and if new demand comes in, we literally cannot do it. We have teams asking for $9k and we can't do it. What sort of **** is this?
I started putting together a Miro on how things all could work together and how creating a baseline for operating costs of products and everything on top would be an investment that was handled quarterly, or bi-annually, depending on the nature (platform vs product) and we could work in quarterly cycles to measure and fund.

I have shown this to the head of product management and he's onboard, he wants me to flesh out how it would work with processes, reviews etc. so I have started to work on getting this translated from my head on to something that pieces it together in Miro. I like it in Miro as it has a lot of moving parts, so helps me connect them all.

I showed it to my boss and got the most corporate answer I have ever got...

"If would be great is you worked from the framework in my PowerPoint .. since it has the terminology/ processes that we have been using. If we introduce new things it will confused everyone .. :("

The framework in your powerpoint makes no sense, this is why you cannot figure it out. I am not putting it into a ******* powerpoint just because you think people paid more than me, and are all ******* older than me will be confused about it ffs! Corporate life is such a ******* barrel of pricks.
 
randomshenans said:
Context: My boss is currently unable to think about how to come up with a funding model and strategy for products and based on last years, we've got $0 left already and if new demand comes in, we literally cannot do it. We have teams asking for $9k and we can't do it. What sort of **** is this?
I started putting together a Miro on how things all could work together and how creating a baseline for operating costs of products and everything on top would be an investment that was handled quarterly, or bi-annually, depending on the nature (platform vs product) and we could work in quarterly cycles to measure and fund.

I have shown this to the head of product management and he's onboard, he wants me to flesh out how it would work with processes, reviews etc. so I have started to work on getting this translated from my head on to something that pieces it together in Miro. I like it in Miro as it has a lot of moving parts, so helps me connect them all.

I showed it to my boss and got the most corporate answer I have ever got...

"If would be great is you worked from the framework in my PowerPoint .. since it has the terminology/ processes that we have been using. If we introduce new things it will confused everyone .. :("

The framework in your powerpoint makes no sense, this is why you cannot figure it out. I am not putting it into a ******* powerpoint just because you think people paid more than me, and are all ******* older than me will be confused about it ffs! Corporate life is such a ******* barrel of pricks.
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That sounds awful, I do question the reasoning of some people in senior management at times. Guess it happens across the board in different industries.

Is there any middle ground? Could you use some of the terminology that your boss wants mixed in with what you want. That way it's not too "confusing" for them. You could say to your boss that you really believe in this strategy and say that if it doesn't work it's on me (If you are really certain it will work).

My latest predicament is trying to break the £45k barrier, Had interviews, getting job offers, however GP surgeries seem to think they can pay pharmacists £40-45k whilst they receive £50-55k funding from the Government for that position.

Starting to consider a career change which is a shame because I have given it a good go but the profession doesn't really have a backbone. (Could probably write a book on the things I have seen and heard).
 
flibbage0 said:
Is there any middle ground? Could you use some of the terminology that your boss wants mixed in with what you want. That way it's not too "confusing" for them. You could say to your boss that you really believe in this strategy and say that if it doesn't work it's on me (If you are really certain it will work).
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That's what I'm going to go with to be fair. Try and bridge that gap. It's just baffling how blind such "senior" people can be, so often.
 
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