Lady Laura Dec 28
The most important employment lesson.
1. HR is not there to protect you. They are there to protect the company.
2. Document EVERYTHING.
3. Food is not a reward for hard work.
4. Do the bare minimum, or you'll get rewarded MORE work.
5. Use them sick/ vacation time/ PTO.
6. Everyone is replaceable.
7. Keep them emails.
8. Your family is more important than any job.
9. Some of your coworkers secretly hate you.
10. Never stay at one job longer than 4 years unless the pay increase is substantial.
Show threadJanne MorenDec 28
@cmconseils
Everything except #10. You may have very good non-financial reasons to stay where you are.
Show threadPatrick Morris MillerDec 28
@jannem @cmconseils Or financial, if you have one of those rare, rare jobs that still has an honest to Cthulhu pension system *where the money is already held by an outside agency* and your employer can never touch it.
Show threadMisuse Case

@kentenmakto @jannem @cmconseils My mom had a job like this but the toxic culture of her employer was so well-known and the number of people staying just to fully vest their pension was so widespread that the pension plan was known as “golden handcuffs.”

IMO she should have left earlier than she did, pension or no pension, because I’m pretty sure that job caused or exacerbated her current chronic pain issues.

Dec 28 at 5:50pmWeb