Noodleface
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What do you do?
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I live in Europe now after having grown up in Canada, and I think I know what he's talking about. People just don't use checks here in Europe. When I worked in Canada lots of business was still done with checks, particularly at the enterprise level. I post dated 12 cheques for rent for the year etc. When I came to Switzerland I asked my wife about getting a chequing account for paying rent, bills etc. and she just laughed at me asking if I was still living in 1982 or something. No one uses cheques here and most people under 25 don't even know what you're talking about.
ZyyzYzzy
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Fucking socialism.
Right now I work in a lab and may have to go to Africa. Had an interview for a chem-bio analyst position. Hooe I get it so I don't have to go to an Ebola ridden hell hole.
OT: I just recently learned that Happy Gilmore's love interest is also the mom on Modern Family (Claire Dunphy).
(Spoilers since this isn't SS and slightly NSFW)
Noodleface
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Vinen
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Wow, didn't realize EMC treated their employees that poorly.My yearly bonus is only $3200
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Most corporations will find a way to pay bonuses less than that.
That said, I started a new job in March and the fiscal year ended in July. Most employers will exclude you from raise/bonus consideration if you've been there less than a year. I got a pro-rated 5% raise and 7.5% bonus. If that's consistent YTY, I'll be more than happy to stick around for the longterm.
That said, I started a new job in March and the fiscal year ended in July. Most employers will exclude you from raise/bonus consideration if you've been there less than a year. I got a pro-rated 5% raise and 7.5% bonus. If that's consistent YTY, I'll be more than happy to stick around for the longterm.
Eomer
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Nah, mine was literally a check. With my own signature on it. No different than the checks we use to pay suppliers and subtrades. And my company regularly receives checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars from the developers and contractors we work for. Construction is all still very much a paper check business.
Noodleface
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Well I'm only a software engineer 1, so maybe it gets much greater at higher levels. I've heard EMC is below average for the industry though.
Vinen
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Ahh OK. Not sure how EMC's ladder works. If it was my company I would be ~Software Engineer 6. (Next promotion requires me to be voted on by Principle Engineers)
This boggles my mind. I know you don't see many people whip out their check book and the only person I still know that balances their check book is my grandmother but everything I do revolves around checks. We cut checks to vendors, customers pay us via check, we get UPS next day air every Thursday to pay employees from corporate. I have to show up at the end of every month to collect a check from my customer. I just know the last day of the month I have to drive around collecting them so I get paid.
Where do you work?
Texas
What do you do?
Construction sales
What field/industry?
Utility, infrastructure construction
Wages?
Commission + Base
Borzak
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Did anyone else have or had a mentor a something related to a mentor for lack of a better word?
I tried for years to get people into this field/posistion at the bottom to work their way up. No dice. Now that I gave up I have interest from several people that turned it down earlier. Too late now.
I tried for years to get people into this field/posistion at the bottom to work their way up. No dice. Now that I gave up I have interest from several people that turned it down earlier. Too late now.
Are you wondering if mentoring/patronage works? Or just disgusted that you tried to get people a hand up and they refused it then only to come bothering you now?
I used to do contractor work with my uncles company from high school through shortly after college and it seemed that half the crew was someones nephew/brother whatever. So definitely prevalent in the trades as far as I can see. Now in my current line of work, independent contracting for small ma and pop businesses, I don't really see anything like it.
I used to do contractor work with my uncles company from high school through shortly after college and it seemed that half the crew was someones nephew/brother whatever. So definitely prevalent in the trades as far as I can see. Now in my current line of work, independent contracting for small ma and pop businesses, I don't really see anything like it.
Borzak
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For years I tried to get people I knew in my line of work. Most went off to college and got degrees that aren't paying shit now. I got lots of excuses, my favorite was a friend who said he couldn't drive the work truck (we make trips to the field like once a month) because it had AM only radio and this was 20 years ago. Trips also average 10 minutes at most across the river and back.
Now he and several others want to live like I do but they missed out on 20 years of experience that's required now. I have several friends who have business degrees who bitch about how lucky I have been and I offered them a chance to get into my line of work for basically the same thing I was making who shit on the idea and now want a job. But have no experience at all and would have to start at the bottom.
Just aggravating. I just wondered if someone got you into the field you work now or you just pursued it on your own?
Now he and several others want to live like I do but they missed out on 20 years of experience that's required now. I have several friends who have business degrees who bitch about how lucky I have been and I offered them a chance to get into my line of work for basically the same thing I was making who shit on the idea and now want a job. But have no experience at all and would have to start at the bottom.
Just aggravating. I just wondered if someone got you into the field you work now or you just pursued it on your own?
I got in to my current field on my own. I did get my current job via some contacts that I had made from a previous workplace, but all that did was get my foot in the door for an interview on short notice. The only way I would have been mentored in to a job would have been if I stuck with the trades because my whole family is involved in them one way or another. Well aside from my father who is a laywer, but I think I'd rather be pounding nails all day then have to put up with the shit he did to get where he is today.
Borzak
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It's complicated lol. I don't even have a job title but a long ass list of stuff to do. Basically it boils down to I design chemical plants and refineries. I knew where this was headed in high school when I started checking my dads work at about age 16. I tried to get people into it when I saw the money and the lack of people who were qualified. My dad retired and now myself and one other person in the state of LA do what we do. There's 100+ chemical plants and refineries in the 100 miles of river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
The two of us left work for companies that have quick turnaround contracts. I don't even need a guy who can do 3D cad or model something as we don't have time. Just good old autocad or even draw on the board if he knows what he is drawing. I can honestly say, when Exxon says money is no object when something breaks - they mean it.
For 25 years I got to work from home except for the 10 year break I took while owning a fab shop.
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Wait, you went out of highschool to design chemical plants and refineries?
I dont wanna call bullshit but i did plenty of CAD design in my days and theres not a shit chance in hell that some big company would hire a dude who studied CAD in his free time to design multi million dollar complex. Either you fucked the daughter of Exxons cio on a regular basis or they really are riding the shortbus to unicorn land. You're hiding something brah.
I dont wanna call bullshit but i did plenty of CAD design in my days and theres not a shit chance in hell that some big company would hire a dude who studied CAD in his free time to design multi million dollar complex. Either you fucked the daughter of Exxons cio on a regular basis or they really are riding the shortbus to unicorn land. You're hiding something brah.
Vinen
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LOL, was wondering this as well. This is a domain specific area that requires intensive training to understand.