RANT: All the Issues are My Fault and You Won't Answer My Questions
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@thanksajdotcom said:
And I'm aware of that. But also consider the position. I know that technically you could run circles around me, and I haven't seen your CS skills, nor you mine, so we can't really comment on that. However, while I know there are plenty of people who could no doubt outperform me at that job, none of those people would work that job. Even if you were totally desperate for work, you could get something that pays WAY better than what I make, which means, effectively, you would never work there. It's the combination of my skill and the fact I'm willing to work there that makes me unique.
Again, bad way to think. I might need some part time work to supplement my income, like I used to do at the beer store. Do you think they needed a highly skilled Windows engineer slinging beer that would get you drunk for $10 an hour? I might want to live out my dream position of smoking pot and playing Xbox all day but still need something to bring in beer and Doritos money. I could win a bunch of money and want something to fill the time between dips in my Scrooge McDuck vault.
I worked these kinds of jobs back when I was young. But I also moved up. You are about to become a lifer, and being a lifer at a low paying job sucks.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Not for someone at my level. They wouldn't give a damn if tomorrow I quit to go work at GeekSquad. One advantage of being a pee-on in retail. All those professional restrictions most people deal with don't funnel down that far.
That's different. In many states they can't stop you after you've quit or been fired from working there. (but they sure can from using customer contacts from past jobs). and they can fire you for working at a competitor.
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@tonyshowoff said:
And I'm not trying to be rude or make fun of you with any of what I've said, I know some people sometimes do that with you on here, but I'm not, I'm just being honest, and it may cause some existential angst, but that's life. I want to help you so you don't end up being one of those 40 year old jackasses who still works at Staples talking about how the store would shut down if he got hit by a bus. You don't want to be that guy.
This is true. I appreciate the sincerity and honesty. Truly I do.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
Staples relies on you to make them money, they're leasing your labour, so if they think you're saying or doing anything to ever...
Or what about trying to take there business: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/346177-what-to-do
We have a non-compete clause and I'm betting Staples probably does too.
Not for someone at my level. They wouldn't give a damn if tomorrow I quit to go work at GeekSquad. One advantage of being a pee-on in retail. All those professional restrictions most people deal with don't funnel down that far.
Then I say use it to your advantage then, but I'm sure there's some sort of ad hoc firing clause where they could get rid of you anyway if they didn't like it.
New York is an at-will state, so technically they could fire me tomorrow or today and not even give me a reason. It could just be "you're done" and that's it.
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@PSX_Defector said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
And I'm aware of that. But also consider the position. I know that technically you could run circles around me, and I haven't seen your CS skills, nor you mine, so we can't really comment on that. However, while I know there are plenty of people who could no doubt outperform me at that job, none of those people would work that job. Even if you were totally desperate for work, you could get something that pays WAY better than what I make, which means, effectively, you would never work there. It's the combination of my skill and the fact I'm willing to work there that makes me unique.
Again, bad way to think. I might need some part time work to supplement my income, like I used to do at the beer store. Do you think they needed a highly skilled Windows engineer slinging beer that would get you drunk for $10 an hour? I might want to live out my dream position of smoking pot and playing Xbox all day but still need something to bring in beer and Doritos money. I could win a bunch of money and want something to fill the time between dips in my Scrooge McDuck vault.
I worked these kinds of jobs back when I was young. But I also moved up. You are about to become a lifer, and being a lifer at a low paying job sucks.
Yeah, I don't want to work barely-above-minimum-wage jobs for much longer. I had gotten away from those for awhile, but the problem became that I moved back to an area where the jobs that pay well are in VERY short supply, and there are basically two technical companies in the area...one I currently work at, and another I wouldn't work at EVER due to their reputation. If you're not working retail and you're technical, in my current area, you're basically at one of those two companies or working IT for a private company. That's just how it is.
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There are other companies besides MSPs.
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SME is the sweet spot for me. I'm curious and stupid enough to look at working for a startup as well.
I have a deep allergy to red tape and bureaucracy.
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@MattSpeller said:
SME is the sweet spot for me. I'm curious and stupid enough to look at working for a startup as well.
I have a deep allergy to red tape and bureaucracy.
Super small (non startup's) seem to have more red tape, mainly because people who don't know anything get to control everything.
And you'd love some of the government job's I've had in the past.. There's no red tape or bureaucracy /Sarcasm
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@MattSpeller said:
SME is the sweet spot for me. I'm curious and stupid enough to look at working for a startup as well.
I have a deep allergy to red tape and bureaucracy.
SME is Small/Medium Enterprise, right? And yes, totally agree with the latter.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
There are other companies besides MSPs.
The problem is that I need to either be at an MSP or a company where my hand gets to play with all the different cookie jars.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
SME is the sweet spot for me. I'm curious and stupid enough to look at working for a startup as well.
I have a deep allergy to red tape and bureaucracy.
Super small (non startup's) seem to have more red tape, mainly because people who don't know anything get to control everything.
And you'd love some of the government job's I've had in the past.. There's no red tape or bureaucracy /Sarcasm
Nope. No red tape here. What's that? You need a new pen? Fill out form 768B in triplicate, The brown sheet, but I need 5 copies of that for 3 other departments, and sign your soul away on this line here.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@dafyre said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
It was open like that for 12 hours tops. Everything was fine.That's just what the hacker would say! O.o
My point is that even if they did try to brute force it because someone happened to stumble across an open WAN telnet connection, they'd run out of time before they'd get in. I'm guessing but being fully complex and 17 characters, they'd have a tough time doing that in 12 hours.
Complexity ads no time to attacking a password. That's one of the myths that creates insecurity in passwords. People think human complexity is a factor in an attack. It is not. Being long is, of course. But never make the mistake of thinking that a computer sees a & as harder to "type" than an H.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
You sure bitch about everything a lot
FTFY
I complain about a lot of things, sure. However I also have made many comments about how much I enjoy working there, how much I care about my job, some of the great people I work with, and so on. I don't deal well with people who are lazy or apathetic at the store, because that job is very personal to me. It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me. So yes, I complain. But it's because I'm frustrated by things that I can't fix, and I'm the kind of person who likes to fix things.
This doesn't really matter. Staples might be okay with you saying positive things about them (I've had people attempt to fire me for the same, however) but ANY negative makes all that moot. Any. Period. That's all there is to it.
Remember, when quoting you or linking you or referencing you, someone making a bit deal about how much Staples sucks won't look to see if you are happy there at other times. Nor does anyone care if you are happy with your job - that's irrelevant when you are bashing the company. I could love my job because they pay be a billion a year but still hate that they kill puppies all day - the two are not necessarily related. Liking your job is a reflection of liking what YOU do or how you are compensated for it. Telling the world how dumb and awful Staples is, is a completely different thing.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me
So the store would close down if you left? Was it not open before you started?
That a few people come to see AJ doesn't mean that any profit is made because of that. I know people used to come to one employee of NTG - because he did all the work for free without recording the hours. So customers learned to look for that one person because they would never be billed for work. Sometimes being the "go to" guy for customers means you are the worst person for the business. Not saying that that is the case here, but AJ having customers who love him does not indicate that Staples likes his work or is happy with the situation. They probably are, but one does not imply the other.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I complain about a lot of things, sure. However I also have made many comments about how much I enjoy working there, how much I care about my job, some of the great people I work with, and so on. I don't deal well with people who are lazy or apathetic at the store, because that job is very personal to me. It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me. So yes, I complain. But it's because I'm frustrated by things that I can't fix, and I'm the kind of person who likes to fix things.
Management, HR, etc never see the complements, 10,000 complements mean nothing compared to 1 complaint, and they can take any complaint and make it into a bigger deal than you think. You have to remember that other people cannot understand/read your own feelings about things. Also consider if someone important saw any one of your bad comments, none of your good ones, by the time you tried to explain it to the person firing you, it'll be too late.
Oh I know that. Thankfully I know none of those people will ever see this. Even if the word Staples is triggered in corporate's monitoring of the online usage of it, there are pretty much no links to their site from this site and no one at corporate cares about what I have to say. We have a hard enough time getting them to address REAL issues that are brought up by someone like the GM.
This shows the staggering to degree that you don't understand how this works. None of this is correct or makes any sense. What links have to do with it, I have no idea. And why you think ANYONE in management would ask for your head on a platter, if they knew how you advertised their brand, I have no idea. Other than not yet knowing what you say, I can't think of any reason you are allowed to work there. Not having found out yet is not the same as not wanting you fired for what you are saying.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Oh I know that. Thankfully I know none of those people will ever see this.
They won't likely see it today. But the chances that they will never see it are very low.
But that doesn't even matter. Losing your job at Staples really doesn't matter. That job sucks. You can always do non-IT work for similar money. The bigger issue is that no company that looks you up will ever hire you. That you bad-talk your current employer, and a few past employers, is enough that normal companies will simply see you as a high risk and avoid you. There are plenty of people looking for work, no need to take on one with a very high risk track record. The highest risk online presence track record I've ever heard of, actually. Sure, someone is worse, not saying that they are not. But you are definitely in the top .001% of high risk online presences.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Every company pretty much has this clause. Never seen one that didn't. Many hold you legally responsible for damage you may cause to the company with statements as well.
That's the scary part. That they might come after you later, after you are no longer employed there.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Oh I know that. Thankfully I know none of those people will ever see this. Even if the word Staples is triggered in corporate's monitoring of the online usage of it, there are pretty much no links to their site from this site and no one at corporate cares about what I have to say. We have a hard enough time getting them to address REAL issues that are brought up by someone like the GM.
You don't understand how good SEO is these days and how easy it is to find stuff. If i search for aj stringham staples or aj stringham rant It turns up quite a bit.
I love that a top hit for "aj stringham staples" brings up "moody teenage". LMAO
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@Breffni-Potter said:
Also.
Think about future employment, everything you are saying here is cached and preserved by not just MangoLassi but google takes a cache as well.
What will a future employer think if they see you trash talking the current employer?
I understand your point in this. I do. But if a company wants to take what I say totally at face value without any context, the job wouldn't work out anyways.
Read: Working is going to work out.
This is EVERY company AJ. You are relying on companies that don't know what you've said, not that they don't care. Every one of them cares. Most just aren't aware.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Yep. Very few people know my real name online. Nor where I work. Linked in doesn't even list my current info.
Same here. Until I went to work at Change, where they want me advertising the brand as part of my career identity, I only listed old employers on my things like FB and LinkedIn, never my current ones. And I wasn't talking about my employers, ever. But I didn't want to offhand say "had a long day at work today" and have someone know that that was OilNavigator or some other current employer. Years later, I let the ambiguous connections get made for people who really care.
If you want to take the time to figure out that I had an early morning at OilNavigator on a Wednesday in 2000 now, knock yourself out. They went under fifteen years ago, they don't care, I don't care and I didn't hurt them in any way, ever. Even taking weeks of work, you will struggle to find something that I've ever said negative about somewhere that I was working, even by mistake and even when not mentioning them.
