Comment on Which conditions would make reject or quit your job?

• MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I read about the term “silent quitting”: quitting without any prior warning, just handing in the resignation without a chance to remedy the situation.

  Here’s the thing - finding the next job took me effort. I’m not wasting that because the boss suddenly realized they can do better. They needed to figure that out before I took the effort to find my next gig.

  And I expect the same now that I’m the boss. I do a one on one meeting with each of my direct reports like clockwork, and I ask probing questions about work conditions, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

  It’s not their job to make sure I know if they’re satisfied with their job. It’s my job.

  Their job is to do all the other amazing things they do to make me look like an amazing boss.

  Is salary the most important factor for you?

  My employees have taught me that salary is the least important thing - right up until the moment when it becomes the most important thing. No one knows when that will be: surprise car repair, medical bill, whatever.

  At the rates I hire at, they learn their worth and can do the math. I’ve never successfully retained a significantly underpaid precessional over the long term. Of course, I do always get a healthy discount on the talent I hire. People value a great boss a lot. But having a great manager doesn’t fix a leaking roof, so that discount amount has to be an amount they feel it’s a great, not an insult to them.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No one knows when that will be: surprise car repair, medical bill, whatever.

    Salary cut. When you say if it’s not important, then why make it worse, they will immidiately tell you how important it is to die on a job.

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  • frozenmolar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like you are a good boss! I am sure your direct reports are happy since you obviously care about them.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like you’ve got your shit together. 👍

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    • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks. I try.

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• cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  remember that “2 weeks notice” is a kindness you’re giving them, it’s not a requirement and companies will never show you that kindness when they fire you

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In Europe it’s at least 1 month for both sides. Luckily. I can’t imagine working at-will.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like what they are gonna do? Fire you?

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  • alr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless you’re on a contract. If you’re in the US and you’re not sure if you’re on a contract, you’re not on a contract. At-will goes both ways.

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• frozenmolar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am okay with some discount on my salary if I am really happy with my colleagues. We go to work every day, it is important to be happy.

  If most of my friends are gone, and the salary is not satifactory, I will definitely quit for higher pay!

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you make friends at work?

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    • lucky@m.nrdblg.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      @onlinepersona @frozenmolar I thought I did make friends at my old job.
      These people do not seem very interested anymore, tho ._.

      That - and the fact, that my new job is fully remote and on the other side of the country - is why I don't at my new job.

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      • frozenmolar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That sounds really sad, did you try to connect with them? I usually try to connect with old friends with festival blessings, e.g. Christmas. This removes the awkwardness for not connecting for too long. Then you can follow up by questions like how things are going.

        But I guess sometimes it is really difficult to connect, since people just move on to dofferent stages of their lives.

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    • frozenmolar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. I make friends in all my jobs. How about you?

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      • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve… tried? But despite being software developers, our interests often don’t align. I’ve gotten along well with many, but they’ve always stayed aquaintances. Back when I was younger and willing to go out and have a beer after work I did make more friends.

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• Juggs@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m likely to do that shortly. I’m in an environment with toxic a few toxic colleagues who know fuck all about what needs to be done, or how to do it, but manage to impact decision making and cast doubt on my abilities and deliverables to date. I have had to step outside of my role to deliver multiple big ticket tasks (e.g. I’ve been brought on to uplift code for multiple applications, but have also had to build a MEM deployment from scratch as there was no endpoint management), but no-one has the knowledge or the interest in taking over the finished products, expecting I’ll add it to my responsibilities.

  A job is about to open up elsewhere that I’ve been encouraged to apply for, so I’ll keep trudging along and will let them know at my notice period. I’ve tried so hard to get involved with no luck, so now they’ll be forced to take interest.

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