#posts about work

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sure sure sure okay sure to be deleted

I seriously hustled to do a second round of interviews (after pushing through the whole recruitment process on behalf of the other supervisor that I’ll be sharing this position with, and after very clear messaging from her that this was *increasingly urgent*) and I sent my recommendations for the two final interviews (along with extensive notes) TEN days ago. And she has yet to schedule the interviews. Like, if your calendar was full up this week, after the holiday, okay. But she hasn’t even *scheduled* them. 

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I know my colleagues think I'm insane so I don't even answer questions like "how are you celebrating getting our mid year bonus" any more, cause "buying a secondhand vintage mixer off of a well-regarded secondhand aggregation website for pennies on the dollar" would not be met with the degree of celebratory emojis that it deserves

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4000 people got laid off today, including a handful of people I used to work with. I am safe.

Meanwhile our stock is at a price that it hasn't seen in a generation. To me, all of this is just proof that corporations are realizing they don't have to try any more. If you have a monopoly (or a duopoly or other oligopoly) on a product or space, there's no reason to compete that hard.

If we had antitrust legislation that was worth a damn maybe things would be different but we don't and they aren't.

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I got a raise today 🤙

It is just enough that my purchasing power remains approximately the same now as it was pre-pandemic given inflation. My expenses have gone up considerably since then but that is due to home ownership. I am in the coveted adult position of "continuing to do okay right now" which feels very gratifying and also part of me wishes for more even though given that I live where I live, no rational amount will ever feel like "a lot" so kind of what is the point.

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Have not talked about this on Tumblr until now but I've been interviewing for a new role since December and I've just been told that I made the cut for final round interviews. They told me today and asked if they could schedule 3 hours of interviews for tomorrow or Friday oh and also I have to prepare a 45 minute preso as part of the process.

Like, listen I can absolutely throw something together in an hour for an emergency meeting but that's not the energy I want to bring into an interview that's important to me. I asked if we could schedule for Monday instead.

I would like this job, I think, even though it would be more work. It would let me use the skills I've built up over the last six years but also allow for positive career growth (and more money, which is good because I'm pretty close to peak in my current role unless I accept a job building the torture matrix or move to a 996 corp).

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Shut my laptop for the year. What a fucking awful year it was to work at {large tech company} and by that same token I am so grateful that I was spared being cast out into the job market, because I just don't feel prepared to navigate it at this time.