Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "A Life After Layoff" channel.

  1. Just enter the word "zero" in the blank.
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  2. Thirty years to go from $12 per hour to $15 per hour won't even keep up with 1% annual inflation.
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  3. Rejection is always a good thing. If they rejected you for a valid reason, you would not have been a good fit for the job. If you were rejected for a bad reason, management is dysfunctional and you would have hated working for them. Always look on rejection as a bullet dodged.
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  4. If I sued the crap out of my last company, there'd be nothing left of it... And from the news I just read, I'd have to wait in line.
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  5. The question raised by anything offered in the "please stay" spiel is, "why weren't you doing this already?"
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  6. Prevention. You ascertain the offered salary range prior to agreeing to the interview, and agree to the interview only if the middle of the range is at or below your desired salary.
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  7. No company really wants a rockstar. They want a magician who can pull rabbits out of the hat to compensate for managerial errors.
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  8. I thought it was because managers and HR types have their heads up their butts.
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  9. Red flag #8: They don't hire entry-level talent. That means they have no intention of investing in employees and will provide no training worth mentioning.
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  10. A good comany's interview process won't cause them to reject good workers.
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  11. Two hard-and-fast rules that they can apply to reduce abuse of internships: (1) Intern positions may only be filled by people who have not been awarded a bachelor's degree. (2) The number of intern positions at a company cannot exceed the number of full-time paid positions being worked by entry-level new hires.
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  12. Every reason for leaving a job can be interpreted as a red flag.
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  13. Your workplace is your family if an only if the CEO gave birth to you, or impregnated the person who did.
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  14. It's like in other areas of life: People don't care whether they do the right thing, they care about the consequences of doing the wrong thing. There should be an annual raise that keeps up with inflation, plus a bit more to reflect your extra year of experience. If that doesn't happen, don't negotiate, just find a greener pasture.
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  15. 1. The low point on the salary range is the salary. 2. If asked to produce an intellectual product and I am not being paid, I would put a statement: "Copyright MMXXIV by disgruntledtoons. All rights reserved." into whatever I handed over. And I'd keep copies.
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  16. The change of religion tells me that the company employs or deals with members of a religion whose texts mandate the execution of apostates.
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  17. Anyone who has used ChatGPT already knows that AI can produce bland casseroles. Since a lot of Hollywood output is exactly that, the people who write it are in trouble.
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  18. There is a fine line between this recruiting pitch and the pitch you get from those fly-by-night people who lure you to hear their spiel about how you can get easy money, all you had to do was to pay for their training course.
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  19. I was already starting to look for another job when I got laid off. Still looking (it took eight or nine months for the job I had), so I'm not unduly worried.
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  20. My experience appears to be the opposite of what other commenters here have experienced. They started me at $10K higher than what I asked. I stayed with them for ten years.
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  21. It's helpful to remember that employers don't hire people for the hell of it, and so they don't fire people for the hell of it, either. You were hired because you were needed. As long as you're needed, and don't make life difficult, you chances of being fired are not worth worrying about.
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  22. The other thing about ATC controllers: Retirement is mandatory at the age of 56. So they need some extra cash to prepare for retirement (or, at least, the time spent looking for work until they retire).
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  23. It may have been Alex posting the sign.
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  24. If you don't mind getting walked out by security, sure, go ahead an lie on your resume.
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  25. HR's job is to minimize the employer's cost of the employer-employee relationship. This doesn't necessarily mean taking the company's side against the employee, but that is often what's best for the company.
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  26. I'm guessing that some employers consider it a feature, and not a bug, that they are making applicants jump through unnecessary hoops. HR workers certainly don't mind anything that filters down the number of applications they have to process, and some employers have the notion that employees should be infinitely dedicated and loyal.
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  27. The Cardinal Rule of Imbecilic Management: "Every problem can be fixed by an employee who is sufficiently dedicated."
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  28. AI isn't replacing humans at jobs which require human intelligence. If you ask ChatGPT to write a boilerplate feature article it can fit the bill. It can give you the Wikipedia version of events. But sometimes it blunders catastrophically and cannot recognize its mistake.
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  29. 6. They don't make payroll.
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  30. Thanks to smart phones and video conferencing, you can interview in your car on your lunch break.
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  31. If you get the job and find out that they're lying, continue looking for another job while working for the liars, and once you find a new position, quit without notice. I don't want a job where I have to lie to get the job. Lying to protect a secret is unacceptable; simply say that the topic cannot be discussed due to confidentiality requirements.
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