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NickK said:
Mad stress - I couldn't find my degree cert and my parents previously stated they gave it to me. The last time this was requested for a job application was 25 years ago on my first graduate role. Turns out my parents had a bit of a reorg over the weekend and found it. Problem solved. As I couldn't find it I'd ordered a re-issue from the university that takes up to 20 days but I only have about two weeks for the application vetting hence the stress!

Looking forward to getting started in the new role (starts September).
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Aside from where there is a legal or security requirement I can't remember the last time an employer (or would be) has checked my qualifications or references, or worked for a company which generally checks.
 
Rroff said:
Aside from where there is a legal or security requirement I can't remember the last time an employer (or would be) has checked my qualifications or references, or worked for a company which generally checks.
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Yep, it’s like being carded in the states but your closer to retiring than the bartender is to being legal to drink..
 
Director at work in her late 50s on my team is a total drain. She's been in the org for decades and spends all her time either coffeeing with people under the guise of work and typing up documents for literally weeks, that should be automated, but she lacks the ability to coordinate and understand how to manage these things. She's in charge of budgets and resource as well. It's mental. I've asked her to fill in 1 slide of a PPT for a workshop I'm leading. I've asked 4 times. I sent reminders, it's been in our team meeting, I know she hasn't put a single thing in this because I'm tracking all the changes. I reckon she gets paid $200k+ a year and she's more useless than a penis at a lesbian orgy.
I honestly would normally just move on, but all of this has a huge impact on the overall running of things and the processes we need. I've been trying to get her to understand we need to model our budgets differently next year for product teams, so they have the ability to estimate growth and spend in their products over the year and we can estimate and budget accordingly. We have people asking us for like $8k for licenses at the moment, which is such a BS time soak for all involved.
Her response? "We've always done it this way"

This is why it's so ****** you total boomer ****!

It's not even my ******* job, but part of my job is to make sure product teams can be effective and this ******* woman is messing with everything and my boss, for some reason, just can't see how messed up **** is with her!

I needed that rant.

Carry on.
 
I've been asked for proof of qualifications for all the companies I've joined except the most recent one (who didn't even ask for a reference). They've taken photocopies of my certificates etc. Nobody has yet asked for me proof of my ECDL qualification though :D

Also had a background check where a company I'd worked at for nearly 8 years had no record of my having worked there, despite me providing my employee number from an old payslip, so I had to dig out a 15 year old email from an old archive that had my offer letter in it. Of course in the time I was there I'd been promoted so then they were asking the fact the offer letter was a different job title than my most recent position there.
 
My current place wanted my degree cert and transcripts as part of the background checks, even though they had no direct relevance whatsoever.
 
Been considering my options since coming to the decision that I need to move away from working deep sea, and find myself something either onshore or offshore, where either I come home every night, or I’m at least away for shorter periods. As it stands I spend roughly 7 months out of every 12 onboard, and given the salary on offer these days in the Merchant Navy, the investment of time and the life events missed just aren’t worth it anymore. My efforts to get out of this have been given an extra push seeing as my last rotation, including isolation due to Malaysia’s COVID policies meant that I spent 4 months away, only for my current employer to then push me into joining a ship after only 2 months at home, meaning I missed a family holiday to Centre Parcs, my daughter’s 2nd birthday (I also didn’t meet her until she was 2 & 1/2 months old and missed her 1st birthday too), and to add an extra kick in the teeth, rub salt in the wound, they’ve sent me to about the worst ship in the fleet. Oh, and we haven’t had a pay rise in 5 years now.

So, I’ve been looking into the offshore oil & gas sector as it seems to be opening up again, and my skills and experience as an engineering officer seem to overlap with both a production operator and a mechanical technician’s role from reading job descriptions, while a lot of the work I carry out now, such as drafting permits to work, creating and carrying out isolation plans and so on, would actually be at the next level if I was doing it in the offshore oil & gas sector. Plus the rotations on offer these days have gone back to 2 weeks on, 3 weeks off, which is pretty much the inverse of what I have been doing these past 8 years.

The only stumbling block seems to be that although I have all the relevant safety certs for working at sea, firefighting, first aid, survival etc to STCW standards, that I just need to undertake the courses to get their offshore OPITO equivalents by doing as BOSIET & MIST course, which is going to set me back about £1000 or so. In days gone by rig operators used to pay for people to get their certificates, but it looks like the market’s changed, and I’m going to have to make that investment in myself. Still, if it gets me out of deep sea, it’ll be worth it.

It’s nice to have a sense of direction and something to aim towards, which I didn’t have when I last posted in this thread a few weeks ago.
 
Oooh, have been put forward for an internal conference in Dublin later in the year. I've done a couple of visits to acquisitions during integration in previous roles, but nothing from a more internal/networking side of things. Should be pretty interesting :)

Plus i've never been to Ireland!
 
Haha yeah. They usually have annual internal finance summits which have been anywhere from Vancouver, London, Berlin and Miami. Sadly they've not had one for a while but i think they're aiming to start again next year. Looking forward to seeing where that ends up!

I'm currently eyeing up this in Stockholm to carry this on!
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Vetting completed successfully :D however reading the contract for the umbrella company they want me to work for minimum wage and then have some non-defined payment from the client... err no.. damn well going to have the $$ for the assignment in writing.
 
I like my job at the moment, but man I'm bored. I didn't have a summer holiday, and we always have this massive dip in work during summer as most of our clients are local authorities and they don't acheive much over summer. But it's really boring. I can't wait for things to ramp up in September.

We've been working to launch a really cool product for energy accounting, which is exciting.
 
randomshenans said:
Director at work in her late 50s on my team is a total drain. She's been in the org for decades and spends all her time either coffeeing with people under the guise of work and typing up documents for literally weeks, that should be automated, but she lacks the ability to coordinate and understand how to manage these things. She's in charge of budgets and resource as well. It's mental. I've asked her to fill in 1 slide of a PPT for a workshop I'm leading. I've asked 4 times. I sent reminders, it's been in our team meeting, I know she hasn't put a single thing in this because I'm tracking all the changes. I reckon she gets paid $200k+ a year and she's more useless than a penis at a lesbian orgy.
I honestly would normally just move on, but all of this has a huge impact on the overall running of things and the processes we need. I've been trying to get her to understand we need to model our budgets differently next year for product teams, so they have the ability to estimate growth and spend in their products over the year and we can estimate and budget accordingly. We have people asking us for like $8k for licenses at the moment, which is such a BS time soak for all involved.
Her response? "We've always done it this way"

This is why it's so ****** you total boomer ****!

It's not even my ******* job, but part of my job is to make sure product teams can be effective and this ******* woman is messing with everything and my boss, for some reason, just can't see how messed up **** is with her!

I needed that rant.

Carry on.
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The CEO need a corporate review disguised as an innovation initiative :)
 
NickK said:
Vetting completed successfully :D however reading the contract for the umbrella company they want me to work for minimum wage and then have some non-defined payment from the client... err no.. damn well going to have the $$ for the assignment in writing.
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The response from their legal is basically “take it or leave it”. I think I annoyed them pointing out the errors in the contract. Well minimum wage and 15d notice period is better than no wage.. given their company has to function on relationship with contractors I suppose i can go along with it - if they mess me around i can always resign.

Seems as inside-IR35 you’re treated like the worst of contractors. Ahh so be it - i’ve been treated worse as a FTE.
 
NickK said:
The response from their legal is basically “take it or leave it”. I think I annoyed them pointing out the errors in the contract. Well minimum wage and 15d notice period is better than no wage.. given their company has to function on relationship with contractors I suppose i can go along with it - if they mess me around i can always resign.

Seems as inside-IR35 you’re treated like the worst of contractors. Ahh so be it - i’ve been treated worse as a FTE.
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Minimum wage!??! What job is this?
 
malachi said:
Minimum wage!??! What job is this?
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You’re minimum wage but paid by the assignment a daily rate. Fear not, the client is paying through the nose for a CTPO contractor.
If they screw me around, i’ll resign. I can then control the narrative for the next company.
 
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