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 threadJanne MorenDec 28
@kentenmakto @cmconseils
To be fair, that's the case for all jobs in many countries.
Show threadPatrick Morris MillerDec 28

@jannem @cmconseils Lucky so and sos.

(My pension scheme covers lots of the public sector jobs in my state. But my skills aren't very portable and my house is less so (less than a mile from work) and I'm most of the way to retirement so unless things get *really* bad I'm staying where I am.)

Show threadAndreas KDec 28
@kentenmakto
Shrug, the pension system here is state run. No dependency on the stock market or similar blackmail opportunities.
@jannem @cmconseils
Show threadPatrick Morris Miller
@yacc143 @jannem @cmconseils As it should be, but around here that doesn't happen.
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