I find that a lot of people who have no idea what you do assume that you do nothing. These are not successful people.
BS jobs
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I wouldn't mind a job similar to that RIGHT NOW (numerous years removed from my "collegiate" period).
would really love to know what companies you've worked for. I've only been in the corporate world for 12 years and I can tell you there are PLENTY of BS jobs in them.
Totally disagree. At both corporations I’ve worked at there are management jobs that could be eliminated without any effect on profits of the company
Ahh ok! That is really funny because we also had sun tanning as well. Such a strange combination...
I spent many years in DC. There are plenty of those cush jobs there, such as certain govt jobs and jobs with the ubiquitous industry association offices.
There was a cush job at ISU back in the day. There was a sort of reading room in the student union. A friend of mine got paid to sort of monitor the place. Basically, got paid to study.
There was a cush job at ISU back in the day. There was a sort of reading room in the student union. A friend of mine got paid to sort of monitor the place. Basically, got paid to study.
They need to get someone into that role for the BS year end reviews!!
We had a guy in that role before the last one who was awesome. A go getter who really boosted our dept, but he left for greener pastures. The last guy sucked ass and didn’t do squat so we had to pick up the slack. Well…..now we proved we can do it without someone there. Good for us I guess?
I get a chuckle every time I drive by this place, which is indeed a real shop. I was once filling up my car next to a lady wearing one of their shirts. I both did, and did not want to talk to her about it.
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The ones where they say:
“we had a lot of headwinds this year. We only have a few ratings above meets expectations to hand out. Most employees got the same rating and the same 2% raise. You’re doing great though! Keep it up.”
From August 2012 to May 2013 I had a job with the DOT in Ames that was supposed to be a Software Engineering internship. It was funded by a grant from IISU and I think there were 6 or 7 of us. 20 hours max per week. I did about 10 hours of work the entire time. The rest I was paid to do homework. Easiest beer money ever.
Edit: Compensation was only $13/hr but free money
Edit: Compensation was only $13/hr but free money
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I've said this before. We had a category for "ethics"
How in the hell can we keep an employee who grades low for ethics? How can someone be super ethical? How is this measured?
A BS grade on a BS year end to filter everyone to the middle.
I tell my company whenever I get the opportunity. If you truly believe in this grassroots management style then we should not have year end reviews. It's a check a box, feel good process. If our leaders are waiting to praise or correct until the year end then they have failed.
I get raised eyebrows, but no action
Fair enough, I've worked in a smaller/mid-sized company (50 employees), so large corporations are quite a bit different.
LOL. I used to work for a large avionics manufacturer in CR, and I PROMISE you there are a lot of people doing work that is absolutely unnecessary, just for the purpose of leadership to look at and career manage.
I used to spend half my time doing sales forecasting, which I could have been just as accurate with a 5 minute per month guess. But you had to have 200 assumptions and if-buts, or else when randome things happened (which 80% of the business was random) you had to explain WHY it was not random and you actually could predict hte future. Then there was the hordes of finance folks creating all the associated reports, charts, and graphs so it could all be looked at by TPTB for a couple hours a month, so they could decide who was going to take the heat for any bad news.
For a company priding itself on LEAN, they sure have a boatload of overproduction.
LOL. I used to work for a large avionics manufacturer in CR, and I PROMISE you there are a lot of people doing work that is absolutely unnecessary, just for the purpose of leadership to look at and career manage.
I used to spend half my time doing sales forecasting, which I could have been just as accurate with a 5 minute per month guess. But you had to have 200 assumptions and if-buts, or else when randome things happened (which 80% of the business was random) you had to explain WHY it was not random and you actually could predict hte future. Then there was the hordes of finance folks creating all the associated reports, charts, and graphs so it could all be looked at by TPTB for a couple hours a month, so they could decide who was going to take the heat for any bad news.
For a company priding itself on LEAN, they sure have a boatload of overproduction.
I did always think it was a strange combo, but as a single guy in my late teens/early twenties I had no complaints about the eye candy coming in to tan.
