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   Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 18:03:08 JST Urban Hermit

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   @vitaminsludge best boost this week. I will be looking for work very soon. If someone feels the need to warn me in an interview of these things, like it is some Faustian bargain with the devil if I accept the job, I'm out. If management style is "frantic last second solutions to previously ignored problems" they need more help than I can offer.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 18:03:07 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @Urban_Hermit @vitaminsludge "we are looking for a passionate problem solver who will go that extra mile. We need someone flexible and focused on ensuring a great customer experience. "
     Translation. "It's chaos. We need you to give up your private life to be available to fix any old shite that predictably will occur".

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 06:46:43 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @Urban_Hermit @vitaminsludge ah, but I'm also a problem solver. Left to my own devices, I fix all the problems by managing them out. Then, what I do starts to look easy from the outside, looking in and determined managers decide to make "efficiency" changes by creating new problems that need to be solved.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 06:46:44 JST Urban Hermit

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     @CloudyMrs @vitaminsludge I may be naive, but I could see someone writing those words and being sincere, they certainly sound nice.

     I am defining myself on my resume as a problem solver. I expect to go into situations that are difficult to unravel and find the thing that needs changed.

     But, work cultures where the adrenaline producing last second patch are routinely tolerated and even praised, that is bad management.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 07:17:20 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @Urban_Hermit @vitaminsludge that's the risk problem solvers take. No one else ever complained, so why are you being so difficult? Lift your head too high, risk getting it knocked off.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 07:17:21 JST Urban Hermit

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     @CloudyMrs @vitaminsludge after 9 months of working through the system to try to get some very serious discrepancies at least looked at by an engineer, I gave notice.

     They asked me to wait a week, so they could check on some things. I relented.

     Then they preemptively fired me.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 07:17:22 JST Urban Hermit

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     @CloudyMrs @vitaminsludge the job I am most worried about explaining on my resume? I put years worth of effort into working with our engineers to get prints updated and consistent and usable. Then we had a downturn. Since the problems were worked out my manager's manager shared me around to other departments. I identified errors in work instructions, sometimes serious, and worked within the hierarchy to get updates.

     "Well, that's the way we've always done it. Nobody else complained."