Ashyukun (Robert) said:In reply to Toyman! :
Right now I'm just waiting for them to ship out the 2TB SSD for my laptop (our computers are locked down so we can't use external drives, but apparently we can install the 2nd internal drive ourselves and the encrypted bios will take care of it). It's not as much of an issue for the majority of people who are at least a few times a week in a facility hooked in to the company network and can back things up to network shares, but I'm completely remote and doing so takes a lot longer.
I'm also supposed to be able to remotely access a higher-capacity analysis box back at the plant and send analysis jobs to run there... but for some reason when I connect using the VM client I don't see the Tier 2 box on the systems I can access. I'm curious which is going to happen first, getting the new internal drive or the help desk figuring out why I can't access the remote analysis machine.
This sounds exactly like stuff that happens where I work. Mega corp bureaucracy can mean something as simple as a bigger hard drive or network access takes an act of god to straighten out or takes weeks of patience at the expense of productivity.
As if the whole job search process isn't a big enough pain in the rear, scammers have entered the chat. I had this guy call me claiming to be a recruiter with an opportunity at Dell. The line was that they wanted to submit me and they had great contacts and so on, but there was just something there that was just... off. The biggest flag was that they kept talking about how they would want a Scrum Master certification, but that as long as I could have that done before the second interview it would be fine. Number one, for full-remote jobs, they surely have enough people with these certs already that are floating around that they wouldn't bother with someone who lacked it at the pay range they were talking about. Then they sent me the job description and some of the wording was just... weird. Like this gem: "The Headquarter of the client is in Round Rock, Texas and after every 3 months you have to visit the office to interact with the team and implement the motivation factor in them."
Earlier this evening, they called me again and said that they were ready to schedule an initial phone screen, but I had to have proof that I was taking the class first. I decided to test this by telling them that I was going to go ahead and schedule a time to sit the PSM 1 exam from scrum.org and that it would be done before the interview and I didn't need to take the class. Oh, no, they said, that certificate is no good. But he would email me a link to the class that Dell would accept. And, as I expected, it was a site with an extremely low rating that doesn't actually provide a certificate that's worth anything. It seems like an awful lot of work to go through to get $450 out of me, but I know a lot of people that are out there looking right now don't have the money to lose. It irritates me that they're targeting folks that can't afford to learn the lesson. I did a little searching to see if this was something new, but apparently they've been going strong with this scam for a couple years now.
In reply to wae :
The last few CL/FB scammers I've dealt with have been far more sophisticated and more willing to have extended interactions before the scam becomes obvious. I don't know if it's just the evolution of scammers, or if AI is playing a bigger role...??
AI is going to make it extremely difficult to root out scammers in the future unfortunately.
In reply to wae :
Job agencies are scams, even the legitimate ones.
I remember the mid 90s when my mom was working through one of those while trying to find a permanent job. She was getting something like $8 an hour while the regular employees were getting $20. The agency was getting the rest
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to wae :
Job agencies are scams, even the legitimate ones.
I remember the mid 90s when my mom was working through one of those while trying to find a permanent job. She was getting something like $8 an hour while the regular employees were getting $20. The agency was getting the rest
Unfortunately, many larger corporations will only hire through an agency. That way they don't have to offer benefits during your trial period. They can also let you go without having to deal with unemployment, taxes, and other paperwork that employees generate.
Toyman! said:Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to wae :
Job agencies are scams, even the legitimate ones.
I remember the mid 90s when my mom was working through one of those while trying to find a permanent job. She was getting something like $8 an hour while the regular employees were getting $20. The agency was getting the rest
Unfortunately, many larger corporations will only hire through an agency. That way they don't have to offer benefits during your trial period. They can also let you go without having to deal with unemployment, taxes, and other paperwork that employees generate.
We do both. If you're "off the street", you are hired through third party for first 90 days, for all the reasons you just said. If you're recruited through college internship program, direct employee referral, known to us via working with us but maybe for another company, you get an offer and are hired direct.
From what I know, it works well for us that way.
Dimples on the FOOT of the router. I wondered WTF was going on. Fixed. Now back to making shavings.
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