Awesome man! Congratulations!
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Bonus!Update - I've been offered the Chief Technical Product Officer contract (6m initially but 3y programme) - fully remote too
Go back and tell them this? Negotiation is all on you. If they say no and it's not worth it, dont!
So much this! 2hrs on the train is such a waste of life.
This is the great thing about not having a degree
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 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.
Really glad you have this as I think this is all where it starts. I would 100% be with you though, missing those things would just be too much.
Whenever work sends you somewhere and pays it can be a bonus
I'm still wangling to go to Boston in Oct! Get leathered, make work pay. Job done.
Vancouver sounds fun! Ooo and Miami
I had a proper OK Boomer moment at work the other day. Was in a meeting and all the old dudes were complaining that, when the people in our building (I say ours but I still haven't been back in ) are getting less space and having screens removed. So no more dual monitor setups etc. People kicked off and were like, seriously? WTF? The new monitors are all **** as well. People, I think rightly frustrated.
The people in this meeting were like, they should be lucky they're not losing their jobs in the layoffs. They're lucky to have jobs. Lucky to have an office as nice as ours... I was like, huh? So, we don't need to consider the level of expectation for workers? Just tell them, at least they have aircon, unlike some offices people work in? **** me.
) are getting less space and having screens removed. So no more dual monitor setups etc. People kicked off and were like, seriously? WTF? The new monitors are all **** as well. People, I think rightly frustrated.The people in this meeting were like, they should be lucky they're not losing their jobs in the layoffs. They're lucky to have jobs. Lucky to have an office as nice as ours... I was like, huh? So, we don't need to consider the level of expectation for workers? Just tell them, at least they have aircon, unlike some offices people work in? **** me.
If there is more scope, I would, but only if that scope for progression was documented. I've been stung before with false promises.
I think they should 100% pay for this. You're an employee regardless and it looks proper dick of them to basically say **** it you don't count...
I just think it's a ****** move, especially for team culture etc. I'd expect people to want teams to come together and the value of that is great. It's not like he's flying in from Australia.
You do EU ones?Testing already done
flights, accommodation, ground transport, meals... it's all business expenses and anything associated with the trip as the trip is for business activities. Shouldn't require any other stuff, unless you're going to a random country haha
I often find this, too. Or, they just don't estimate at all. I would wonder what sort of pipeline it is and who manages those stories/ requests through it not to update it though and understand the complexity as those things should really come out more when you're doing prioritization work as well @NickK
I got pinged on LinkedIn again about this CPO role for a "web3" company - it's the 4th message I have had about it. I didn't reply to 2 of them, but the first one I spoke to a recruiter while I was on holiday, he said he liked me and would put me forward. I heard nothing, like most great recruiters. This last one, I just replied asking if she was working with the client directly. I know who it is and instead of getting another 10 messages about it, I thought I'd email the CEO. I'm not actively looking, I have loads of stuff on and I do well where I am, so I'm not bothered, but regardless it was more out of annoyance from recruiters. The CEO replied asking for some details. I said happy to chat casually if they're still looking and I'm not actively in pursuit of a new role, but saves me coming up and being shown to him / their company another 10 times. (I think because I have blockchain experience and product leader in my linkedin, it just pings up)
I hate recruiters.
I got pinged on LinkedIn again about this CPO role for a "web3" company - it's the 4th message I have had about it. I didn't reply to 2 of them, but the first one I spoke to a recruiter while I was on holiday, he said he liked me and would put me forward. I heard nothing, like most great recruiters. This last one, I just replied asking if she was working with the client directly. I know who it is and instead of getting another 10 messages about it, I thought I'd email the CEO. I'm not actively looking, I have loads of stuff on and I do well where I am, so I'm not bothered, but regardless it was more out of annoyance from recruiters. The CEO replied asking for some details. I said happy to chat casually if they're still looking and I'm not actively in pursuit of a new role, but saves me coming up and being shown to him / their company another 10 times. (I think because I have blockchain experience and product leader in my linkedin, it just pings up)
I hate recruiters.
hahahaha recruiters are such buzzword whores. I wish they just looked at the competitors of the company they were working for and approached the people in similar roles - proper headhunting style if they want to find the right person. ****, it's what I used to do and it's far more effective.Just wait until you have quantum cryptography or security in your profile! You’ll get his for crypto currency, security (when you're in cryptography).. plus the usualmay favourite one was a call from a colleague in the same company I’d just accepted a contract from.
That's a huge step up man! Well done!
Well played man! Great way to do it and sales I think are always pretty hot, especially when markets are down!
I tend to put stuff in here, but for sure start a specific one! Could be useful for specific things on running your own!Is there a 'Do you run your own business and what do you do?' thread? Had an idea to make one.
I was contacted on Linkedin about a role and I normally pie them off or don't reply, but this one seemed pretty interesting. It's Director of Product Operations for a company called Scandit. They have no product operations at current but have just taken series D funding of something like 240m and want to try and standardize some of their approach to product. It's Zurich based, but hybrid. Maybe more Zurich at first to build up the presence and then could be more home based. Would be working for the VP of product, who is one of the original founders.
Spoke to the internal talent acquisition people, who is arranging for me to speak to the VP. If that goes well it'll be 24hrs to work on a case study and present to them. Then it would be 2 weeks to work on a case and then again present it to them. Half of me is like meh, seems like a lot of work, but would be nice to have a day job where I felt I could actually provide value and get stuff done.
Spoke to the internal talent acquisition people, who is arranging for me to speak to the VP. If that goes well it'll be 24hrs to work on a case study and present to them. Then it would be 2 weeks to work on a case and then again present it to them. Half of me is like meh, seems like a lot of work, but would be nice to have a day job where I felt I could actually provide value and get stuff done.