This Business and Moment...

Fingers crossed for you and I can't blame you for getting your hopes up making it the final round, would be great to be able to tell your existing manager where you are going to :D :D
 
iamtheoneneo said:
This is what im doing at the moment, so I feel ya.
My authority in my work place has complete eroded, its a simple case of new management coming in, changing the status quo of everything via a lot of underhand deals, massive amounts of drama, and people seemingly knowing what project i'm going on to in September without a single person actually discussing it with me first! serious wtf moment..

Our office is dead, no one talks to each other, and just months ago it was buzzing.

Anyway, headphones in, crack on and see what comes up. Problem is every job I looked at all of a sudden needs post grad quals - when did that become a norm?!?
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I've been there before, I'm fed up with managers, I don't want or need to be managed, I can do that myself, I would love a leader!

Moral is everything in a business, if that goes, it's only a matter of time until staff start leaving and the business suffers.
 
AHarvey said:
... the issue is that we don't use the typical systems ,,, which means no experience so moving to another role is difficult,,,,.
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Common problem. As I do support I can almost feel my skillset slipping away. I automated all my support to it takes about 5% of the time it used to. Still hit the numbers, but now I'm free to do my own development work, and learn new things.

Our place has shot itself in both feet. All the people doing support got sidelined, and they promoted only those who didn't do support. So now one will do support on the new systems, everyone wants to only do the skillset enhancing work. Development, standard tools etc. Interesting times ahead.

They can't really talk anyone into doing the support and tidy up jobs, as they've established a precedent of shafting them.

Lucky I've shifted team away the application development side. They keep trying to bring me back as they've no one with my experience, (the others left) particularly in the business area. But I want to just work in a new area now.
 
AHarvey said:
Fingers crossed for you and I can't blame you for getting your hopes up making it the final round, would be great to be able to tell your existing manager where you are going to :D :D
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Thanks very much!

Well my current contract actually ends in 5 weeks and instead of letting it auto-renew I can easily just say "thank you but no thanks" can avoid some unnecessary tension with the manager...hopefully.

Although if I get the job I imagine he'll be a **** about it one way or the other.
 
Phate said:
Thanks very much!

Well my current contract actually ends in 5 weeks and instead of letting it auto-renew I can easily just say "thank you but no thanks" can avoid some unnecessary tension with the manager...hopefully.

Although if I get the job I imagine he'll be a **** about it one way or the other.
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Good luck with the new one anyway.

iamtheoneneo said:
...My authority in my work place has complete eroded, its a simple case of new management coming in, changing the status quo of everything via a lot of underhand deals, massive amounts of drama, and people seemingly knowing what project i'm going on to in September without a single person actually discussing it with me first! serious wtf moment.. ...
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Our place has a habit of not sharing information. Kind of a power trip kind of thing. Which is fine until they need help with their project, but no one can help them as no one else has the information needed to do the work. besides which on one wants to work on a team where they are drip fed information.
 
Good luck! Everything crossed for you on this one.

I've had a really busy weekend with some good things in there...

- Created a follow up mail campaign around the active tab feature in custom html email template

- Sent it to ~450 people. Monitoring their responses - going to follow up this week with my new favourite old school phone people!

- Tweaked keywords on an adwords campaign I'm running - it's a cheap one, but running it around student engagement - added / changed some key words.

- Was adapting our sites SEO in all the posts and pages to match the keywords people are using in Google. (still have a fair bit to do on this, but got about 50% of all site content done)
- Sorted a post/ video on the new feature too, I love recording myself sounding like a ****: https://www.emotuit.com/lms-analytics-bad

- typed up a software disclaimer of sorts for the link from our software. It'll cover it for now, I'll always add more to it mind.

- Posted a job posting looking for someone to take on the DB/ ML / algorithm stuff, see if we can find anyone interesting for that at this point I think it'd just be too much for our Dev to do as well as everything else I am getting him to do on integrations and this is important, obviously.

- Spoke to someone about that job actually, the previous CV I put up. I have another guy lined up, too.

- Typed up a template for sales agreement for the Brazilian place, they want a "trial" period, so I said 30 days.

- Had an interesting guy drop me an email yesterday (from here: http://www.learningandemotionlab.org/ ) - he'd like to talk about working with us. He's a professor, could work on an advisory role sort of thing, I think, but useful to publish papers etc. help with emotion / learning data

Full on phone sales this week as I have no demos lined up. Need to follow up with previous interested people and try and balance shifting this cold and work.
I'm so over this contract, but needs must. I just really struggle to motivate myself to do anything, it's just got beyond frustrating here, so it's all out push this now. If I do this for 6 months it might kill me, but I am hoping it hits perpetual motion!

/long post. Pancake.
 
Hope you do get it, there's no better feeling moving on from one company to a better one when a manager is trying to push you out, especially when they don't get the satisfaction of telling you where to go. It robs them of their end goal that they've been setting up for months.

Nearly got the new hosting working to my liking (think I'm one of their first to be on this system as I'm having to raise support tickets for little setup tasks)... now I have to re-do 6 months worth of work in 2 weeks. If I had seen Azure sooner I probably would have moved to that but I haen't had enough time to test to see if it is the best route for us so keeping it safe on managed hosting.
 
Landed myself a new role. Nearly doubled my current salary... it's going to he shed load of work - goodbye free time. But hello opportunities. I will basically have a blank paper to design a programme (admittedly I have done it before and is what I am currently doing) but this is far higher profile.

Exciting - but the **** just got real. Still a good experience.

I have a few people I want to poach to come and work for me... but I need to get my feet under the table first.
 
Freefaller said:
Landed myself a new role. Nearly doubled my current salary... it's going to he shed load of work - goodbye free time. But hello opportunities. I will basically have a blank paper to design a programme (admittedly I have done it before and is what I am currently doing) but this is far higher profile.

Exciting - but the **** just got real. Still a good experience.

I have a few people I want to poach to come and work for me... but I need to get my feet under the table first.
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As said in the other thread. Congratulations dude! Really pleased for you! :D

I can't believe how overdue a beer we are. Next time I'm in London you and BBx will be first on my call list! :)
 
Steeps said:
Hope you do get it, there's no better feeling moving on from one company to a better one when a manager is trying to push you out, especially when they don't get the satisfaction of telling you where to go. It robs them of their end goal that they've been setting up for months.

Nearly got the new hosting working to my liking (think I'm one of their first to be on this system as I'm having to raise support tickets for little setup tasks)... now I have to re-do 6 months worth of work in 2 weeks. If I had seen Azure sooner I probably would have moved to that but I haen't had enough time to test to see if it is the best route for us so keeping it safe on managed hosting.
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Thanks Steeps. This is it. If it works out how I hoped. I'll just tell them not to renew my contract. Watch him squirm for a bit, give it a week of listening to his crap then say I've found something else and drop the M-Bomb in there :)

Glad to hear your system is progressing now. Hosting can be a nightmare!

randomshenans said:
this for 6 months it might kill me, but I am hoping it hits perpetual motion!

/long post. Pancake.
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Thanks Ross, also if you need help with the Brazilian/Portuguese side of things (if there is one, give me a shout)
 
Applied for a role, they gave me 3 weeks to complete a task.

I completed it in one week and was about to send it today.. But receive an email saying the position is now filled.

Thanks a bunch..
 
:(

That sucks.

I applied for a role recently (before getting the role I have just been offered), and had a final interview and haven't heard back 2 weeks on. Not even had feedback! I'm not bothered - but it's kinda rude.

dacads - probably dodged a bullet there - good luck on finding something else!
 
Freefaller said:
Landed myself a new role. Nearly doubled my current salary... it's going to he shed load of work - goodbye free time. But hello opportunities. I will basically have a blank paper to design a programme (admittedly I have done it before and is what I am currently doing) but this is far higher profile.

Exciting - but the **** just got real. Still a good experience.

I have a few people I want to poach to come and work for me... but I need to get my feet under the table first.
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Congrats mate, great news :)

I can haz job plz?
 
This thread does nothing for my own ego :p lol

I am genuinely happy it's working out for everyone though, all these years on the forums and this area is the first time I've felt like I am actually getting to know people on here instead of the general GD nonsense and one upmanship. It also lets me know opportunities are out there! :D
 
Grats Freefaller, still in the rail industry?

Nitefly said:
Best of luck :)
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Ta!
Started three weeks ago, and things are going well enough so far. Friendly and more competent team, with more interesting work to do, and hours are reasonable. Commute isn't so bad either as I'm not on the London routes so I can actually get a seat. Should be room for progress within the team/company too. Can't complain really :p
 
Thank you! It's going to be strange changing after so many years... but it was time for a change!

Infrastructure - yes. :)

But no longer specifically rail, but there will still be a rail sector to deal with. :)
 
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