tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post843363106972766001..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: Empty CubiclesFSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-5965227336917347692010-02-01T05:17:08.872-05:002010-02-01T05:17:08.872-05:00At one small startup company, the managers decided...At one small startup company, the managers decided to make a little racket by hiring friends and then getting a recruitment bonus from the company. One of the managers said if the company refused to pay him a bundle of cash for recommending a friend to be hired, he would cut his own deal with a friendly recruitment consultant for half of the money.<br /><br />Of course the friends they hired in this way were exempt from actually having to sit a programming test before being hired! One manager actually said it wasn't his money so he didn't care who he hired! So they hired incompetent workers on higher salaries than competent workers. If you are doing good work, this really is a bitter pill to swallow. You have done work that has won the company a significant amount of money, but a friend of a friend is hired on 30K more than you. He comes in and writes poor quality, unusable code.<br /><br />These management bozos also ripped the company off by having copious amounts of time off under the guise of working from home.<br /><br />The high up management ripped low-level employees off by promising share options in the company, but then firing low-level employees that were eligible a few months before they would have got a pay-off.<br /><br />The whole operation was a scam. Managers ripped off the company. Directors ripped off non-management workers. The venture capitalists were ripped off supporting badly thought out projects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-35591614767129050082010-01-31T20:03:53.020-05:002010-01-31T20:03:53.020-05:00Very entertaining. Looking forward to updates.Very entertaining. Looking forward to updates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-87920676341332759212010-01-31T13:37:45.170-05:002010-01-31T13:37:45.170-05:00Before I was fired (forced to resign etc), along w...Before I was fired (forced to resign etc), along with some co-workers, our whole group was moved up to a new floor. In the process of the move, the shortly to be fired co-workers were moved to different offices. <br /><br />Probably this was so the soon-to be-fired co-workers would have less chance to compare notes.<br /><br />If two workers are being victimised in the same way - bullying, negative comments about unimportant matters, excessive workload etc, then moving them into different offices first seems a good move.<br /><br />Anyway the year before this scumbag company cracked down on people trying to offer group resistance to employee-unfriendly policies.<br /><br />It really is such a scummy thing to do. Your workers devote many weekends and evenings to ensure the success of projects.<br /><br />Then when money becomes tight or a high-up manager wants to hire friends, you bully your faithful workers to resign and pile on excessive amounts of work onto them to soften them up. It is dishonest to write up false bad reviews on good workers.<br /><br />The managers should be ashamed of themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com