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@Stuxnet @cantthinkofone I could easily shut down their eCommerce site right now. They removed my email access and think that somehow prevents me from accessing other systems!
But they are already failing so much on their own that it would be pointless. Better to watch them burn through their own failure.
...though I wish they wouldn't since there really are some great people there who deserve some job stability. -
@AleCx04 I considered it, or at least giving them some bad PR, but the conversations were over the phone, so I can't prove that they were supposed to give me a raise. Not much I can do without proof.
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@netikras Honestly, this is good for me too. I enjoy my contract work significantly more, and it pays so much better. I had become so complacent that I wasn't worried about what was best for me. I have a client that has been begging me to work for them full time for over a year since I started contracting part time.
I don't need this boring, bad paying, unethical employer! -
@nathanasius companies who treat their employees like this never last long. Take your money and leave
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@svgPhoenix don't worry, no plans to sabotage them. Even though I'm frustrated, I wouldn't do anything unethical. I wouldn't even take pleasure from that. Posting an honest review on glassdoor, on the other hand...
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@nathanasius your anger is totally justified. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to deal with an employer like this. I can only imagine.
It's a good practice to send a follow-up email for "clarification" after a call or discussion that affects your employment benefits/status to create a paper trail for crap like this.
Some people suck. -
@duckWit yup, I definitely regret not doing this. I've just never had bad enough treatment to have had reason to do it. I should've known.
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This is the story of a guy who unintentionally brought down a web-service and effectively the revenue generating component of a small scale start-up.
When this guy quit the company, they had initiated the process to remove his login credentials(username and password). Now, a lot of moving components were coupled with these credentials because this guy single-handedly did a lot of heavy-lifting and no one bothered as everything was working fine.
One fine day, the credentials were finally obsolete and the whole service was down.
just giving you ideas :D -
@Yamakuzure Glad somebody else is angry for me!
This is a company that raised their prices a few months after I joined, telling customers that they were losing money at the lower prices and didn't make enough profit from the items (a total lie). When customers stopped buying, they lowered prices again quietly, but by doing so they showed all the customers that they had been lying in the first place.
This is a company that had an IT team that was fully remote and was operating very efficiently but then fired the whole team but me because the CEO didn't trust remote workers anymore.
This is a company that switched eCommerce platform AND ERP/shipping solutions with two months' notice (the project I referred to in my post) against the advice of every expert at the company simply because the CEO blamed the systems for the bad profits.
This is a company where the CEO called me and assured me my job was secure just 6 months ago (a trick to keep me for the big project no doubt). -
Well unfortunately after such experiences, you learn to leave exactly at 6 or whatever. Nobody gives a fuck about you so why should you give a fuck about them?
Expect to be paid more for the work that you already do if you think you deserve it.
It would be great if effort and loyalty were appreciated, but the world is just too full of assholes. -
@Stuxnet prepare your back door ;)
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@nathanasius You sir, have a strong sense of righteousness! Much respect to you for holding your anger on a situation like this. Unfortunate these things happen... That CEO sounded like a big piece of s...
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You did NOT hear this from me. Repeat. Ahem, is there one individual you feel bears the responsibility of your getting let go? If this is so, I suggest... I can't believe I'm going public with this, my ISP will be found, Interpol will knock at my door and next thing I know I'll be in a basement in Ekaterinburg with a well thumbed copy of "Nicholas and Alexandra" to keep me from the gunfire... if this person drives to work take a pen knife to the tyres of their vehicle.
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@bols59 nonono, that's not how you do it. The tires have valves, there's no need to damage anyone's property.
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@bols59 how dare you say something like that, I'm calling the police
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
So today I got let go from my job.
I've worked for this company for about 2.5 years, and soon after joining I became the only IT resource for software. I had to support literally everything after they fired the rest of the team, but I did a great job and have been praised by all the management at the company.
A few months ago, after a salary review and a frank discussion with my boss and his boss, they agreed that I am due for a raise. They had a massive project coming up with a lot of extra expenses, but I was told that right afterward they would be giving raises.
I spent tons of late nights and weekends on this project, and we were able to get it mostly finished about a 1.5 months ago. I was instrumental in the project (the rest of the IT team didn't even know how to set up simple DNS records). An email was sent to the whole company thanking me for all the work I put into the project.
A week ago, I messaged my boss to ask about the status of raises as he had told me they should be going out at the beginning of this month. He said there won't be any raises, and that's all I heard. Then today I get a call telling me that they are letting me go.
Let me get this straight: you led me on with talk of a raise just to keep me here working long hours for your big project, and then you fire me after recognizing what a great job I did? That's just sick. I have watched them treat other employees and partners unethically, but it took getting it first hand to realize how bad it really is. My teammates were in shock when I said I was leaving as they have all leaned on me very heavily.
Fortunately, I have had several offers come in over the last few months (2 this week) for more pay. I only held off because of the lies I was told about receiving a raise and out of a false sense of loyalty. I'm not worried about my future at all, just angry at the way I was treated.
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