This Business and Moment...

In my experience the bigger the company the worse it is for mistakes like that, the only type of company worse than that is one that is expanding too quickly and process and infrastructure aren't in place to manage it leading to the entire company resting on bad solutions/software.
 
Interviewed and offered the position. After some soul searching I've decided to decline the role. Less money but that's not a motivating factor any more. It's a small company and I get the feeling they're looking more for someone to put systems in place (my weak suit) than improving on current systems. Interviewed directly with the owner/MD and someone of the questions I asked on routine financial management of projects he couldn't really answer or sounded unsure. I also asked for a brief description of my role and responsibilities and he couldn't clearly define my role either.

Anyway. Decided to stick it out where I am until September and then make a definitive decision.
 
Fingers crossed for my 2nd interview tomorrow, have to get out of this place.

Just had a matey off site chat with the Ops Director, one of my female friends in legal has made a complaint about me because she'd had her hair done and was saying she didn't like it and I said it looked really good and it suited her... He's not concerned about it but wanted me to know and to speak to me about it. I considered her a friend as well.

WTF is wrong with the world when you can't say something friendly without someone taking offence?!
 
AHarvey said:
Fingers crossed for my 2nd interview tomorrow, have to get out of this place.

Just had a matey off site chat with the Ops Director, one of my female friends in legal has made a complaint about me because she'd had her hair done and was saying she didn't like it and I said it looked really good and it suited her... He's not concerned about it but wanted me to know and to speak to me about it. I considered her a friend as well.

WTF is wrong with the world when you can't say something friendly without someone taking offence?!
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That's ridiculous. Are you telling us the whole story?
 
New job starts tomorrow, still in the same role but higher grade and pay but in a different department of the same government organisation.

Shoes done, haircut, shirts ironed but I'm still oddly nervous. I seem to be doubting my own abilities even though I know I can implement some amazing changes which will help with the productivity and workflow.
 
ceaton88 said:
That's ridiculous. Are you telling us the whole story?
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He didn't tell you what he was doing with his fingers at the time....

I am hoping this week goes OK at the moment. We've been trying to move for ages and it's been a complete nightmare with losing one house then delays on this new build pushing back our move all the while we've been in boxes at our place. We're supposed to be out this Saturday, but the agent can't confirm (even though it's the date on our contract) that we can have the keys then. He keeps coming up with excuses about stuff but we need to move and need to confirm with the removal company to get it sorted. Oh and my wife goes away thursday, so it'll be me and 3 kids doing it.
Work has been really busy at the main gig too, which has mean my emotuit work has suffered but that can't really be helped at the moment until I'm in this new bloody house. It's all driving me mental.

/rant
 
ceaton88 said:
That's ridiculous. Are you telling us the whole story?
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Yep, I keep it professional at work, I don't even go out drinking with work mates.

A harmless off the cuff, "your hair looks really good!" Whether she's put an actual complaint in, or it's her Team Leader (who happens to be the Ops Directors girlfriend) stirring I don't know.

Ops Director says he's fully on my side and not to worry about it, but it's annoying when you are always professional and work constantly for them, and they take this from someone they wanted to fire 2 months ago and is only still here because I spoke to the head of her department.
 
ceaton88 said:
You have nothing to worry about obviously, but that type of reaction is just crazy. She should be put on a disciplinary for being a crazy *****, that is the only outcome I would be happy with
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I've gone for the easier option, removed Facebook friendship, keep it purely professional as always. Second interview tomorrow, I don't see the point in being funny about it and sinking to their level, keep it professional and polite.
 
Any thoughts on this. I've managed to extracted myself out of a dead end role, (I automated my old old job which had me out of sight) and am finally doing higher profile work and more interesting stuff. Though kinda bouncing between teams.

I've been asked to consider taking over some even more high profile work, that I'm not really interested in, but would again boost my profile and raise my skill set. Only issue was getting the work was between me and a more senior person, who I get on socially but not professionally. Management though they needed more senior person, the person we are replacing, felt I had better skillset and know the business area. They basically advocated for me over the other person. They don't want the other person involved.

Predictably I've been given forewarning, that we'll be asked to work together on it. Which was the outcome I really didn't want. I really didn't want to work with other person. They are pretty toxic. I don't think I can turn it down now. But if it goes bad, it would could have repercussions going forward. My direct manager is not involved in any of this.
 
Acme said:
Join the club.

Lets start our own industry with blackjack, and hookers! And forget the blackjack!
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You laugh but a decent small slots/bingo site can bring you in 30k a day after taxes, I used to work for Caesars online, small chat rooms, rented slot games etc, 1 person working in chat, another on the phones/emails for support. Steady profit :D lol
 
Second interview yesterday with the head of HR and the team leader of the day shift/training shift.

Got on well, had a good natter. Talk about my CV, me, the role and the business. No technical questions, it was purely a "will you fit in team" meeting.

Sounds like such an awesome company, it's really staff focused. It's mainly going to be SQL work for me, but they have dev teams, database architects, AI and machine learning etc. Would be a great company to grow in. They said that they don't hold anyone back but they don't throw people in the deep end (i kind of like the deep end), as fast as I pick it up and progress they'll just let me run with it, they won't hold me to a schedule. I'll need to get up to a decent level to start as I don't think the money will be great to start but i needs to cover my travel (new run around, insurance, mot and fuel).

They will let me know either way and include feedback to help me if I don't make it.

They seemed impressed I went in for an interview on my birthday as well, worked out well :D
 
Managed to finally convince the company to buy me a new work PC. All it took was for 3 different external companies (our main outsourced IT support and 2 software company supports) to comment that it was practically unusable and for me to prove I sometimes literally spend more time waiting for my PC than actually working.. :rolleyes:

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All that remains to be seen is how much of an upgrade it will be..
 
Skillmister said:
Managed to finally convince the company to buy me a new work PC. All it took was for 3 different external companies (our main outsourced IT support and 2 software company supports) to comment that it was practically unusable and for me to prove I sometimes literally spend more time waiting for my PC than actually working.. :rolleyes:

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All that remains to be seen is how much of an upgrade it will be..
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Lol, been there and done that. This place bought me a £250 Argos desktop PC when I first started, it worked fine for blogging which is what the job was. My job then moved on to large excel reports, graphical work etc and it would just die on me.

My manager was saying telling management how bad it was, I was told to price one up and send it to the ops director. 2 months and nothing, I ended up bringing in an older i5 unit from home to tide me over but I then inherited this PC. Like you, I'd spend more time waiting than working. Out accounts department is the same, 4 laptops all under the min specs for Sage. Accounts is one area you don't want slow and lagging machines.
 
Started to finalise my CEng application - goodness it's long winded. I should have done this a long time ago but better late than never, besides I have nearly a couple of decades of work experience now which actually helps.

Also because of being a leader in my field, I have been put forward to join the ICE as a Fellow which is quite exciting.

However this won't be for another 6 months or so as I have too much to do to concentrate on this for now. But it is exciting nonetheless!

Oh and I've just secured over £800k of R&D tax relief for the company too which is something they had no idea they were eligible for!
 
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