Re: Re: Screaming into the void
By: Arelor to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 11 2026 05:33:45

If management didn't appreciate that sort of thing I would be pissed.

Then you'd be soaked to the skin if you worked where I do. We got people that go above and beyond and don't get squat from management.
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Re: Screaming into the void
By: Ogg to Arelor on Sun Jan 11 2026 06:27 pm

degraded mode, you take a 2 hour trip to fix it, [...]

The money includes the 2hr [4hr return trip] travel time?

If I am required out of regular working hours they pay for the bus ticket, the food, and they let me sleep in the facilities if required.

They are not paying extra for the time itself but they will let me take the equivalent time as "break hours". So if I have to burn a big amount of hours I will be compensated next week and they will let me off the clinic earlier.

It is very rare that anything breaks so badly it requires me to be there immediately. I think last year it happened once. If something breaks during the wekend it can usually wait until morning and be fixed right before scheduled appointments begin.


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Re: Re: Screaming into the void
By: Mortar M. to Arelor on Tue Jan 13 2026 10:42 am

Then you'd be soaked to the skin if you worked where I do. We got people that go above and beyond and don't get squat from management.

That is a common trend.

I think modern firms have too bloated structures. The people taking decisions are too separated from the productive fabric of the firm. If you are doing the gruntwork as part of a certain team it is veary easy for other people in the team to appropiate your successes and you won't be recognized for your efforts even if the managers are the sort of people capable of recognizing good efforts.


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Arelor wrote to Mortar M. <=-

I think modern firms have too bloated structures. The people taking decisions are too separated from the productive fabric of the firm. If
you are doing the gruntwork as part of a certain team it is veary easy
for other people in the team to appropiate your successes and you won't
be recognized for your efforts even if the managers are the sort of
people capable of recognizing good efforts.

I worked recently at a company whose CEO stated on multiple occasions
that his customer was whoever is closer to our customers. We also did "ridealongs", where all of administration spent a day working alongside
our customer service and sales teams. It made a great impression on me.


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