I recently started at a private company that does profit sharing through ESOP. This year to all invested employees, so those more than ~1yr, they contributed around 30% of their annual salary in stock to their retirement. The private stock price rose about 32% from last year as well. On average the stock goes up 20%+ and the contributions have been around 18%. The founder and IG CEO found that companies that have an ESOP grow faster than others, and are happier. It takes 6 years for full investment, but after that, when you leave, they pay out your shares at that stock price, over a few payments I believe.
If I were eligible this year, it would have been >20k just given to me for retirement. They also contribute to 401k. It's nothing crazy but it's something on top of ESOP. I don't want to need to work until I'm to old to enjoy retirement, but my wife and I like to travel now. This helps do both.
I’m literally not a manager, I’m the newest employee here and this other coworker sits and talks to a female coworker that likes the attention for the first 50 minutes after clocking in. They don’t work and nobody seems to care. Infuriating as it is, I think this is not my problem to solve....
Put your head down, do your job, and let it go. Get established at your employer, and if the coworker’s actions start affecting your work, then escalate. Any action now will not be beneficial. If you say something to the coworker, it’s not like they’re going to change their actions, and will more likely hold that against you, and likely talk to his peers. Talking to a manager will bring tattle tale / drama vibes and out you on radar.
I would say that when you take a new role there will inherently be a bit of a probationary period. It’s a new role that you haven’t done, and so your will be supervised to make sure you are capable. That’s not to say it’s like starting at a new job entirely, where your character isn’t known to the company already.
If you start in a position somewhere, and your new coworkers are hostile towards you, it’s because they suck and that’s not normal. I was hired at the same time as another employee at my current employer, and it was clear that the manager didn’t want either of us, but he was a shitty person. Everywhere else I’ve worked has been welcoming, but everywhere has a couple crappy people.
A city truck hit a powerline near us on Wednesday that caused a power blip. That was enough to kill off a couple of old computers. So that consumed the first half of my Thursday. I’m hoping I can leverage this to finally get approval to refresh our old inventory, which is most of our inventory.
I also have to work with a 3rd party dev company that’s less than worthless. For a group of people who’s jobs require solid analytical thinking, it’s amazing that they’re able to function in life without having a handler for day to day tasks, like getting dressed. They’re incapable of completing a task without explicit instructions, and seem to think that my IT services extend to them.
The joys of being the sole IT person at a small/medium size business. I need a bigger head for all of the hats I have to wear.
Tangentially related… I work IT in a CNC shop. Most engineering prints that we get to make parts to have various specs on them for materials and various finishes. Those specs used to be free years ago, but they’ve most all been replaced, but not really updated at all. Now everytime they have a revision change, we have to buy the new revision from SAE for like $70 a piece. As shitty as that already is, in recent years, they have DRM locked them to a single user. So while we have 50+ employees with multiple needing to reference these for quality inspection or processing, it’s against the ToS to share those specs. We are supposed to buy one for each user which is fucking bogus.
Fuck em. I screen snip each page and make a new PDF, or that one user prints it out and scans it in. The extra kicker is that while that’s not allowed, you can buy a paper copy that can be shared for the same cost, you just have to wait for it to be delivered.
All of the audits we have to do, yea. They just care that we making good parts, that our paperwork is filled out correctly, and processes are being followed. Technically, if we didn’t have any of the specs but still did the process correctly, they wouldn’t care.
I’d say that the one case you have of a fast food worker shooting someone is not the same as the plethora of cases of police shooting people. More importantly though and the true subtext of this post, is that this employee got fired, arrested, and charged with murder instead of a receiving a paid vacation and a transfer to a new McDonalds two counties over.
It’s promoting his upcoming new album and shows. I didn’t know about either, because Ed’s music is not my thing. That said, I’m infinitely more likely to spend money on either just by knowing. Now take my experience and apply it to someone that might buy either experience. If a couple of people do, and it’s likely that will happen because that’s how marketing works, then it will probably be worth it. Even with this article, more people will be exposed increasing the chance for more buyers.
The first Republican debate of the 2024 election cycle is in the books. Without the frontrunner on stage, each candidate had the opportunity to grab the spotlight, though some had more of an impact.
The world’s best airline is paying staff a bonus of 8 months’ salary after record annual net profit of $1.98 billion ( www.cnn.com )
you are a coworker and have a conflict with another coworker who accuses you of being lazy, even though you started to work earlier than him. Is it your job to solve this problem?
I’m literally not a manager, I’m the newest employee here and this other coworker sits and talks to a female coworker that likes the attention for the first 50 minutes after clocking in. They don’t work and nobody seems to care. Infuriating as it is, I think this is not my problem to solve....
questions about being the new guy
I read a post about how when you’re the new guy, you are basically on probation until you are not. My questions:...
The United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined ( climatejustice.social )
Source (2023-04-24): pgpf.org/…/the-united-states-spends-more-on-defen…
I've had a hell of a time the last few days
I’ve been trying to swap out a dead computer that operates a scale but the scale software is a pain in the ass. What have you guys been up to?
fuck Adobe and fuck their licensing
I’m so absolutely sick of it.
De-escalation ( lemmy.world )
FYI: Ed Sheeran is a scab. ( jezebel.com )
5 takeaways from the first Republican primary debate ( www.npr.org )
The first Republican debate of the 2024 election cycle is in the books. Without the frontrunner on stage, each candidate had the opportunity to grab the spotlight, though some had more of an impact.