I named my son Jaxin because my wife wanted Jax and I didn't want my son to have a dog's name.
I regret not just naming him Jackson because nobody in Taiwan knows how to pronounce Jaxin.
No, not at all. I don't understand why we even have contracts written if anyone can breach it at will.
7 months ago I started a 6 month remote contract for chime.com.
At around 5 months, I asked my manager if she was going to extend me. She said no. Cool, whatever. Life of a contractor.
The product and engineer team rallied against ending my contract and my manager caved and extended my contract for another 6 months.
So a week into my new contract, they asked me to come into the office in San Francisco.
This is a difficult ask from me because I had to find a person to watch my son and my dogs. Drove my son an hour away to my sisters and paid a dog sitter 80/day to watch my dogs.
I land in San Francisco and my boss text me saying she has something important to tell me. I get into the office and a few hours later she cancels my contract because they want to have the person in my role local and to come into the SF office 4 days a week. This new position is also only paying 135k vs my 165k.
When my VP laid me off, she was on her phone texting someone. She's going to be a CEO one day.
I would also do this to my wife if she stood up for humanity. I might even marry her again.
After a while, you feel sorta numb to corporate America.
Yup, my VP laid my coworker off after she announced she was pregnant.
A week later I announced my wife was pregnant and they laid me off.
Nice job dude. How did your wife take it after they fired you for being human?
I'm a 46 year old dude with long hair and I would rock this.
Hey man, thanks for sharing. You made me feel better knowing that I'm not alone in this work hellscape.
My work day is exactly this. The main difference is I'm fully remote and I fear for my job since my last 3 jobs laid me off because I didn't want to go back into the hell hole that was in-office.
So, I dropped from a director to an IC senior manager and am constantly looking for new jobs because after about a year or so some VP or CMO gets switched out and will try and implement RTO so I try and stay ahead of it.
I honestly just want enough money to put my kids to school and retire. Then I would buy a 3D printer and spend the rest of my life tinkering.
I almost got divorced many times with my wife. I'm super lucky that I got help and am taking Ritalin along with my wife telling me that my meds are wearing off so I can re-up.
No, I didn't. I'm just going to learn from this. Never go out of my way for any corporate company.