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Just caught up with this - nice work mate!

Have the new place received the references they require from the old place yet? Just in case you feel you need to go home and not return, I'd bottom that one out!

tim wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 9:26 am Have the new place received the references they require from the old place yet? Just in case you feel you need to go home and not return, I'd bottom that one out!

Yep, what have you signed?

tim wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 9:26 am Have the new place received the references they require from the old place yet?

Are references even worth anything now?

unzippy wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 10:16 am

tim wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 9:26 am Have the new place received the references they require from the old place yet? Just in case you feel you need to go home and not return, I'd bottom that one out!

Yep, what have you signed?

All references sorted, contract signed, have laptop, have phone, had a chat with the MD yesterday (he was passing through town on a personal thing) - that's all fine.

As for the documentation, this is carrier level telecoms ops with extreme nuance for a guy who's never done any kind of telecoms before, not a web app running in Docker - it needs at least basic documentation before he starts.

About fvcking time sunshine!!!!

InfoTech salaries don't start with a 2. They have been extracting your piss for years. WTF do you think paid for two Lotus over the years!

Well done (YC)

Yeah, it's only been the last few months that that has really hit home, given that literally everyone involved in recruiting I've spoken to has asked why my salary doesn't start with a 4....

Beany wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 10:57 am As for the documentation, this is carrier level telecoms ops with extreme nuance for a guy who's never done any kind of telecoms before, not a web app running in Docker - it needs at least basic documentation before he starts.

All of that is true but still not your problem...

although I suspect, a bit like myself, your professionalism and general all-round decency will not let you leave the new guy in the shit- so you'll produce superb documentation... and probably work extra hours to do it.

Your new place is lucky to have you

I don't have time to do superb documentation, so he gets what he gets

Stop being a doormat. It's their problem not yours.

Rich B wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 12:36 pm Stop being a doormat. It's their problem not yours.

I'd rather not see a dozen people i like be out of a job if I can help it...

Beany wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 12:46 pm

Rich B wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 12:36 pm Stop being a doormat. It's their problem not yours.

I'd rather not see a dozen people i like be out of a job if I can help it...

maybe those dozen people need the kick you had. They're not going to close the business over anything you have or haven't done.

A few of them are already interviewing so maybe you're right

Title : Telecoms Documentation v1.0a

Author : Steven Raith

Date : 4th May 2022


To whom it may concern :

Sorry, I have run out of fucks to give.

Regards,

S Raith


Print that out 4000 times, put it in a few binders, drop it on your manager's desk and walk out of the place.

Should always leave a door open. Add "PS: one (1) week's worth of documentation writing (37.5h in total) can be requested at an upfront paid cost of £10,000)."

LOL I ain't doing post-hoc work for them.

I can document the process of doing some of this stuff, but things like SIP trace analysis - I can't teach that, that's something you learn.

So that's their problem.

Delphi wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 4:38 pm Title : Telecoms Documentation v1.0a

Author : Steven Raith

Date : 4th May 2022


To whom it may concern :

Sorry, I have run out of fucks to give.

Regards,

S Raith


Print that out 4000 times, put it in a few binders, drop it on your manager's desk and walk out of the place.

New guy opens up document…. Wtf is this?

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Sadly, new guy starting Monday so I'll be here. Otherwise that would be tempting.

100 pages of that, then at the last page
"Go to <network location> to find what you need"

Dear new guy.

Welcome to the hotel California. You fucked.

Love beany xx

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