Shortest Work Experience

Duan said:
However true it may be, it's that bulletproof attitude that erks me so badly.

It's my friggin money that is being paid as salaries to individuals who try and do as little as possible.

Having said that, there are those very few exceptions whose attitude is vastly different. I cannot begin to express my unending gratitude for the hard work they do. Imagine dragging thousands of useless idiots behind you through a river of golden syrup.
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I also have to pay tax...
 
3 months. I knew in the first week I couldn't work for the man that employed me. Managed a supply chain and logistics division for a multinational. It came to a head and I handed in my resignation with immediate effect. He was a true narcissist. The people I managed were abused by him. He would randomly fire my staff for stuff their predecessors did, insult and swear at them, not pay them, etc. I had a staff compliment of 16 people. The longest person was there for 18 months. Average was 6 months. He gaslighted me because I asked him to stop communicating with my staff and let me deal with them. Tried to protect the poor souls. I landed up getting all the abuse and only lasted 3 months. This was all in SE Asia, so didn't really have any sort of legal recourse.

I thought I had encountered a narcissist before working for this man. How naive I was. These people are very special and can make your life a living hell.
 
Emjay said:
3 months. I knew in the first week I couldn't work for the man that employed me. Managed a supply chain and logistics division for a multinational. It came to a head and I handed in my resignation with immediate effect. He was a true narcissist. The people I managed were abused by him. He would randomly fire my staff for stuff their predecessors did, insult and swear at them, not pay them, etc. I had a staff compliment of 16 people. The longest person was there for 18 months. Average was 6 months. He gaslighted me because I asked him to stop communicating with my staff and let me deal with them. Tried to protect the poor souls. I landed up getting all the abuse and only lasted 3 months. This was all in SE Asia, so didn't really have any sort of legal recourse.

I thought I had encountered a narcissist before working for this man. How naive I was. These people are very special and can make your life a living hell.
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You worked for my dad? :wtf:
 
Emjay said:
3 months. I knew in the first week I couldn't work for the man that employed me. Managed a supply chain and logistics division for a multinational. It came to a head and I handed in my resignation with immediate effect. He was a true narcissist. The people I managed were abused by him. He would randomly fire my staff for stuff their predecessors did, insult and swear at them, not pay them, etc. I had a staff compliment of 16 people. The longest person was there for 18 months. Average was 6 months. He gaslighted me because I asked him to stop communicating with my staff and let me deal with them. Tried to protect the poor souls. I landed up getting all the abuse and only lasted 3 months. This was all in SE Asia, so didn't really have any sort of legal recourse.

I thought I had encountered a narcissist before working for this man. How naive I was. These people are very special and can make your life a living hell.
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Sounds very similar to my first Dev job.

Oke would (and still does) scream and shout at the women on the daily. Makes them cry, tries to get people to feel sorry for him, pays everyone peanuts and has a god complex. Tries to lock people in by setting them up with **** pay but offering crappy accommodation thus enabling him to control their lives and getting them to work ungodly hours.

I'd resigned after 18 months because I got an offer of 9k more per month - pushing my salary to R14200. I was then earning more than the bloody senior devs. I knew I made the right decision then.
 
Emjay said:
3 months. I knew in the first week I couldn't work for the man that employed me. Managed a supply chain and logistics division for a multinational. It came to a head and I handed in my resignation with immediate effect. He was a true narcissist. The people I managed were abused by him. He would randomly fire my staff for stuff their predecessors did, insult and swear at them, not pay them, etc. I had a staff compliment of 16 people. The longest person was there for 18 months. Average was 6 months. He gaslighted me because I asked him to stop communicating with my staff and let me deal with them. Tried to protect the poor souls. I landed up getting all the abuse and only lasted 3 months. This was all in SE Asia, so didn't really have any sort of legal recourse.

I thought I had encountered a narcissist before working for this man. How naive I was. These people are very special and can make your life a living hell.
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Maybe he was on drugs or an alcoholic or something?
 
I don't have stories like this myself but I have two incidents I've observed myself.

Worked for Kalahari.com on contract for a year: After being there for a few months, a new guy joins. On day 2 he checks out the code and gets an overview of the project and a simple bug fix we want him to do to get into the code base. 2 hours later he starts packing everything up and says he is going for lunch. I'm like hey, it is safe to leave your stuff, so you don't have to carry it around if you don't want to. He awkwardly starts talking about needing to run errands and mumbling (thought that is weird, but ok cool). That was the last we ever saw of him. Took about 2 weeks to finally reach him and apparently he got in his car and drove straight back to Pretoria from Cape Town offices :crylaugh:

He also reneged on his previous job, resigned and basically didn't show up for work for his notice period.
 
1 Week.

Worked for a video production company that started selling refurbished car batteries. The writing was on the wall. Didn't make it past 1 week.
 
Gnome said:
I don't have stories like this myself but I have two incidents I've observed myself.

Worked for Kalahari.com on contract for a year: After being there for a few months, a new guy joins. On day 2 he checks out the code and gets an overview of the project and a simple bug fix we want him to do to get into the code base. 2 hours later he starts packing everything up and says he is going for lunch. I'm like hey, it is safe to leave your stuff, so you don't have to carry it around if you don't want to. He awkwardly starts talking about needing to run errands and mumbling (thought that is weird, but ok cool). That was the last we ever saw of him. Took about 2 weeks to finally reach him and apparently he got in his car and drove straight back to Pretoria from Cape Town offices :crylaugh:

He also reneged on his previous job, resigned and basically didn't show up for work for his notice period.
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hahahahahha
 
Gnome said:
I don't have stories like this myself but I have two incidents I've observed myself.

Worked for Kalahari.com on contract for a year: After being there for a few months, a new guy joins. On day 2 he checks out the code and gets an overview of the project and a simple bug fix we want him to do to get into the code base. 2 hours later he starts packing everything up and says he is going for lunch. I'm like hey, it is safe to leave your stuff, so you don't have to carry it around if you don't want to. He awkwardly starts talking about needing to run errands and mumbling (thought that is weird, but ok cool). That was the last we ever saw of him. Took about 2 weeks to finally reach him and apparently he got in his car and drove straight back to Pretoria from Cape Town offices :crylaugh:

He also reneged on his previous job, resigned and basically didn't show up for work for his notice period.
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:crylaugh::crylaugh: Basically he was like "screw it, I'm done with this"
 
Waiter for 2 years x 2 consecutively. First at a general family restaurant then at a fancy/quaint Italian one.
First IT job was in a corporate company for 5 years.
Second IT job is going on 6 years now granted I've been riding a wave of promotion/title/job/corporate buy-out changes since the start.

So that is around 11 years in corporate. hmmm... Maybe 12? /counts on fingers and reminisces...

So I've not experienced a short job situation in my life yet :o As far as employment goes I'm too risk averse. Got to take/keep what I get.

Did I mention I don't like corporate? :p :(
 
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KingMikel said:
Sounds very similar to my first Dev job.

Oke would (and still does) scream and shout at the women on the daily. Makes them cry, tries to get people to feel sorry for him, pays everyone peanuts and has a god complex. Tries to lock people in by setting them up with **** pay but offering crappy accommodation thus enabling him to control their lives and getting them to work ungodly hours.

I'd resigned after 18 months because I got an offer of 9k more per month - pushing my salary to R14200. I was then earning more than the bloody senior devs. I knew I made the right decision then.
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Sounds just like the guy I worked for. He terminated someone's contract on Christmas eve while he was on a plane home. Sent the termination letter as he boarded his flight... Now, bear in mind that this guy who was fired left all his belongings at his apartment in the country in which he was working. Didn't even pay him out his leave or other benefits, plus deducted all the deposit money on the apartment from his last salary.

pinball wizard said:
Maybe he was on drugs or an alcoholic or something?
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Nope. He didn't drink at all tbh. He was narcissistic. People throw that term around often, but until you encounter a true narcissist, it's hard to understand their behavior. These type of people enjoy messing with people. They get some sort of twisted happiness from seeing others suffer or being able to manipulate people into doing things for them.
 
Agreed, people throw the term around but the true narcissist is a scary person.

Without sympathy/empathy/feelings of any kind, they can watch you fall and happily stamp on your face. Manipulation and control are all that matter to them.

What's more, they're often charming and clever.
 
goth_nerd said:
Can someone please explain to me what's so cool about SharePoint? I just don't get it
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its filled with industry jargon, so uninformed project managers love it because there are things like "cloud" and "agile" integrated into it.
 
Baxteen said:
its filled with industry jargon, so uninformed project managers love it because there are things like "cloud" and "agile" integrated into it.
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Like all other IT related products... I am a project manager and I hate SharePoint with a flaming passion.
 
+1 Fek SharePoint, okes have the easiest job (but most boring) I won't be able to do that. No offense to SharePoint lads. Just ain't for me.
 
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