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Lontri
I feel like entry level jobs are a myth in game development. Well, I see a couple of openings each year, but they have insane requirements. Mostly it's just senior this and senior that. Heck, there was an entry level level designer job listing some time ago, and that also required previous experience of level design jobs.
SithElephant
Not everyone is suited for every job. Reasonable adjustment for preferences or abilities only goes so far for management to help. Core job requirements may be enjoyable for some and a nightmare for others.
SithElephant
Thinking of one of my dream jobs - sitting in an isolated tower watching for forest fires. For many, this would be a nightmare.
RiddingBean
After decades of hard work, I finally got a job at NIH. I quit the job at an NIH after three weeks. My team leader was passive aggressive, micromanaging and never provided any support or guidance. The day I quit, I drove over an hour to a beach to decompress. I have a strong skin, but the experience wrecked my mental health.
TripleDane
Alot of these combine into the same issue... lack of trust.
Personally i like to give my team members goals/purposes rather than tasks. i dont want to sit and tell you each step to do over and over again. I will happily explain a process or a structure if you ask into it. but on day to day basic . this is your work are and you are responsible for reaching these goals. How you do it i don't care as long as your work is satisfactory.
TripleDane
also 12 strikes pretty close to home.. it one of my biggest pet peeves
doctorId
I've always said, if you have the urge to micromanage people you're either a control freak or have bad judgment for hiring.
DigYourselfBaby
Amen to clear feedback. One day at work I asked: "oh, are we doing X this way now?" and my boss answered: "I thought you would have picked up the hints." It's an odd management style to 'drop hints'. If you're too afraid of your team to talk to them, you have no business being the boss.
Raeke
Oof, number 5. My Sunday scaries include desperately brainstorming ways to get out of going, and then holding back tears as I inevitably drive into the office the next day.
And number 7 lol my toxic boss banned any team building (even free activities) unless there’s already a problem among the team. At that point it’s conflict resolution…
DigYourselfBaby
You know it shouldn't be that way, right? It's one thing to have a less than great job, but a whole other thing to cry over working there. I feel so bad for you if you have no options. :(
Raeke
Yeah I’m well aware lol. I’ve applied for almost 300 jobs over 2 years, and had HR friends help with my resume and applications and stuff, so I know I’m not just doing it wrong. It’s just rough out there right now and I work in an area where remote work is my only real option. I just had to turn down a job offer because they weren’t flexible on their remote policy and the commute was almost 4 hours round trip 😔
DigYourselfBaby
Yikes! I sure do hope there are good things waiting for you around the corner.
Blasfemur
Employers are okay with sub-par performance if it means saving a buck. They win if things suck or not. That's how rigged the game is.
narcoleptiKnickers
What loyalty? Get a dog.
Tjitso
Oh, I definitely quit my job. My manager wasn't the best, but he wasn't the reason. Changing work environment, changing more and more into an American company, that's what did it though.
Yellowchopsticks
Best they can do is a pizza party.
theothermeisnthere
"Team Building Exercises" are not for everyone. I worked well in teams, but despised fake assignments. No, I don't want to build a gingerbread house with Sam. He licks his fingers the whole time. No, I don't want to spend the weekend talking about work. That's what the week days are for. No, I don't want to 'invent' a fake product and figure out how to market it to invisible 'customers.' Second or third fastest way to make me hate a job. (Unreal deadlines are #1, Manager usually #2).
SneakECoyote
Someone needs to fire the highlighting guy
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
9 is kinda a case by case basis. There are plenty of people who thrive working remote. There are also plenty of people who can't handle the unstructured environment and are less productive outside an office.
OldnSpicey
The last place I was at did RTO after a few years of everyone basically being remote. It was horrible, I never was able to get any work done because of folks always dropping in. Oh and they did away with cubicles and went with hotel style seating so it was just noisy all the time.
GnowledgedGnome
And some people do poorly in an office environment who were never given the chance to work remotely because companies have trust issues
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
No argument from me. I fully support more people being given the chance to do remote work. But if someone's not pulling their weight, a company has every right to demand they come in, or leave the job.
GnowledgedGnome
The problem is that most companies will make people come in regardless. At my job the data team was regularly recognized for their increased productivity during COVID but now they're forcing people to come in a few days a week
PMAW
It really isn't.
FlatPlutoSociety
Yep. I haven't had an office to go to in almost 20 years because I work in an industry where WFH has been the standard since long before COVID, so I've got a ton of personal experience with this. The majority of people handle WFH really well (although there is always an adjustment period), but in any given group of new hires, there's always one or two who just can't adapt to that level of self-management.
onlyheretoargue
Nothing kills a good employee faster than watching you tolerate a bad one. This is something I have had to remind my boss about.
SFuhr
Recently got warned I'd taken over 10 days off sick in the last 12 months, by 2 hours, and as I look back at the dates...yep, when WFH, no sick days, when partially WFH, very few sick days, when full time in office, lots of sick days...
spookyfckr
If I get let go from my current job this will be the message that goes out to everyone including our 5000clients
OptimusPom
I am actually in an odd spot right now. I don't have any benefits with the job but the work place isn't toxic as fuck and the management is competent. I was originally planning to bail after a year but it's such a breath of fresh air compared to the poorly run jobs I have done before I am staying longer than initially planned.
onlyheretoargue
Nothing kills a good employee faster than watching you tolerate a bad one. I have had to remind my boss about this.
420supercoolusername69
Thank god for the highlights
spookyfckr
I liked em, but I am pretty high
Vergenbuurg
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕝𝕪 didn't feel pointless. Not at all.
a2s2020
reverendbonobo
I'm having trouble seeing the highlights. Can somebody circle them for me?
JCDenton10
And we need arrows too
wiltsjunk
I only read the highlighted part, which was obviously the point of the highlight.
downrightmike
My favorite quote is " Just because they can read, doesn't mean they will"
PineappleLoopsBroether
I enjoyed it
SteveTheEgg
I work in a kitchen, I experience the opposite of 3, there isn't enough micromanagement. In a kitchen everything needs to be prepared the same way for consistency sake, but my job lacks supervision so people half ass recipes and slack off. Even I slack off as what's the point of doing extra if you get zero benefit from it? I guess it's less micromanagement and more just upholding a standard.
jennym123
I work for Target in their corporate offices. I fucking hate my job.
BillHubbard
As an employer, I concur. This should be the foundation of a company's values. Yet I am missing PTO and anti-overtime.
METROlD
I’m a manager and I really like this.
putcleverusernamehere
End stage capitalism disagrees with every one of these.
gitguuud
Disagree on number one and think it’s more case by case. My first job I had out of college I had great managers who stood up for me and tried to help me grow and increase my salary. The job still sucked and I left it. Jobs can still suck balls despite excellent managers.
That said, I do think it’s mostly true. Other jobs I’ve left because managers were bad on top of the job being bad.
Milkarius
Good managers will keep a good job good, but bad managers will make a good job bad, resulting in leaving. Both probably won't make a bad job good.
Rather black and white, but that's my interpretation of the first rule
ChorizoPig
One of the few employees that I ever had quit sobbed when she told me. She loved her job but literally got hired for her dream job in a related field. I was so happy for her.
Thecakeisanasshole
The first statement is upper management horseshit to make the lower managers second guess themselves because they can't make shit shoveling any more appealing than it is with the resources they are allotted to get it done. It is also a statement that puts employees in a place where they dislike their manager rather than the actual framework they are both operating under. The sole purpose of middle management is to be loathed, to allow the top to squeeze the bottom without getting dirty.
Agreement2agree
Sometimes a good job begets a better job. I'm an employer, and I've never begrudged someone moving on to something I can't offer.
lemmerustlethosejimmies
I worked at a Chick Fil A for 1.5 years and honestly it had one of the best managements staffs of any job I had. Smart, hard working, would absolutely roll their sleeves up and get in it, and wouldn’t chew you out for dumb reasons, but rather when you genuinely deserved it. But working in fast food til 10:30-11 at night and walking out half covered in water and raw chicken batter and/or cooking oil just kinda sucks on its own, and I miss the people a little but not the work
tsooji
I hate #1. The first time I really managed people, I was pretty young and in a toxic management structure. We were told this *mostly* correct line over and over and over again. Our superiors all repeated this as a mantra to shame the lowest of us into believing that our direct reports left because of us, not because of pay scales outside of our control, deliberately restrictive scheduling guidelines, shitty benefits, and equipment that barely functioned.
Gaslighting fuckers.
BeardicPerformance
I’ve definitely left because of bad managers. But I’m probably going to quit my current job sometime this year despite having the BEST manager I’ve ever had because the company as a whole refuses to give raises or bonuses and is mandating return to office following a massive RIF despite record profits every single year.
BlueDsc
I don't quite agree with #1. There are lots of jobs where, even with the best in management, they're not a job for everyone. One of the best jobs I ever had was graveyard shift. I ended up leaving the job because graveyard shift is just really difficult to do for a long period for a lot of people. One of my coworkers worked at a literal graveyard for a while. He says it was a great job, but had to leave because working with the dead is mentally draining.
Everything else sounds good though.
Flapjackal
These are very demn applicable to my company right now and are why I handed in my notice last week.
Whitewolf30
16. Pizza parties aren't a replacement for proper raises
OriginalSyn
The best part of working remotely is that there are few pizza parties. Sometimes my boss will let us expense ~$30 to order a meal for a "lunch" meeting.
ottman001
A few years ago the company I work for let one of our best staff go instead of give her a modest pay rise. Now her role is taken by three people who have failed to do the job half as well.
RefurbishedArcReactor
I just got laid off yesterday. Knew it was coming, trained my replacement. They're terrible, and management is now having two people doing just my monthly deliverables, double checking each other, with no backup for my project work. Sure hope their "hire people in low cost countries" strategy gets them the results they deserve!
Surfbreaker83
Oh oh oh. Sounds like my company shifting a lot of third work overseas. Engine i think is the outfit. Thinking their going to save money by paying less for new engineers. Not experienced just new. I've bought plenty of popcorn.
QotU
It took 5 people to replace me in one of my jobs. I quit my manager. As did aaaalll of the women who worked for him. The company did get a clue and demote him. It still takes 5 people to do what I did.
arajad
As the second-highest paid employee of a small company, I used to say, "No one's irreplaceable, including me. But some of us cost a LOT to replace."
Beezlebubble
Oh hey this is almost me...except it's four
delightphil
Dough rises. Salaries increase.
Quizz25S
We have a zero tolerance for cell phones while driving trucks. 1st strike automatic 3 day suspention. Second is termination. Had one guy picked his phone up to call another driver while he was still moving before he came to a stop. Great driver, but second offense. I fought for him. My boss fought for him. So did my boss's boss. Corporate canned him.
On the flip side our instances of people caught on their cell phones went from 160 in a year to 4.
ihugpeople
I'd bet moral went down though.
Bhargo
similar with my cousin. she outperformed her entire office by a wide margin, but when she wanted to start a family she asked for either work from home or a raise to cover daycare expenses. company refused so she left to a place that let her work from home. its insane to me these companies will throw away their best workers over nothing.
jaydude22
Similar situation at a place I worked at. They didn’t want to pay the one guy extra for doing essentially two jobs so they hired another guy. New guy wasn’t as good and customers complained. I overheard my excellent manager on the phone explaining to higher ups he wouldn’t “ask the guy to train his unnecessary replacement he told them not to hire.”
Vilasenia
And unfortunately this is the current model in the US. As long as all three make less then her they are getting profits and just see good. They don't care about quality.
Spudd86
It is extremely unlikely that 3 people cost less than 1 in remotely similar roles.
ottman001
This particular case was just a failure to recognise one persons value. It really is costing about three times as much before considering lost business from poor customer service.
todaytomorrowwillbeyesterday
The highest paid employee is the 1st out the door when crunch time comes. All usurpers should try to remember that
Outlavv
Based on your wealth of experience? When people are treated with respect and compensated fairly they don't quit and perform better.
R2DJ
So the CEO ,would be the first to go in that logic? I do believe in a downturn a company may to fire people where they think the cost cutting outweighs the benefit of keeping them on. It is true that its often difficult to put a definite amount of profit directly related to one employee. But then again what do I know.
todaytomorrowwillbeyesterday
Apparently, nothing about business structure. A CEO is not akin to an employee. You may need to bone up on the hierarchy of big business. Comparing a CEO to a worker, what a Rube...