/biz/ - Business & Finance

Your company is a CIA front.

This does not sound unusual, I work in tech, it's very similar.

>>18102111
how do i get to be in 3 letter agencies front company. ill keep my mouth shut tight

you sound like an unironical cuckold because yes, this is normal for people like you. so normal you'd have to be dumb not to know

>>18102239
No Rick, you won't.

>>18102111
False
>>18102416
Very true.

>>18102466
not even close glowie, anway get me a job reeeeeeee

>>18100738
Working as EA in one of the Big 5.
Business as usual, but I'm even more expensive for customers.

>>18100738
Welcome to working for a big corporation. Just wait til you have actual work to do and have to constantly battle corporate bureaucracy to get the most basic shit done.

>>18100738
>I honestly think I'm a diversity hire
I doubt it. Are Indians actually good (ie better than you)? My experiences with them are poor.

>>18102645
>>18102551
you two kids are hilarious. how do I collect my money?

>>18100738

I also work at a large company and I was dumbstruck at the utter inefficiency of how it operated. There's people making mid 6 figures who literally do nothing except have 2-3 meetings per day and then look at facebook on their phones.

Normies have no idea at how much is wasted at these places.

>>18102701
> how do I collect my money?
I don't know - pass GO? I have no idea what youre talking about

>>18102645
The architecture uses a 15+ year old tech stack, and software changes are made by commenting out the old code and then writing the new code below it. The only comments are metadata (who made the change, when the change was made).

I pointed out to my manager that the metadata is already tracked by SVN (why are they not using git? sigh), but that's just how they do things.

It's not just a fortune 500 company, it's in the top 10....

>>18100738
Yeah dude I’m basically in the same boat. I work remotely and it is a shock, I basically just haven’t been doing anything and nobody seems to notice. Just enjoy it I suppose

>>18102758
im not joking dude, i dont work in finance, if you wanna give me a market analyst job ill take it fr. im not lying or wrong and my analysis

Oh right if you stop ddossing my shit ill give you a link

>>18102860
ouch. Sadly not an uncommon thing

>commenting out the old code and then writing the new code
sign that people are both unsure what theyre doing, and not comfortable.

>SVN (why are they not using git? sigh
My guess: Because there was no git when they started doing stuff, and if they switch to git now they would lose commit history ( AFAIK migrating commit history from svn to git is not as straightforward as one might think)

>>18100738
survey their Designated Shitting Streets habits
post pics and stats here
...
profit!

Well it's like this--Management makes the decisions. People who make it to management positions are usually conservatively minded (and older).

The technology landscape has evolved quickly in the past two decades and our bosses have failed to keep up. Change is risky and uncertain. Maintaining the status quo may result in inefficiencies, but the risk is certain (and manageable) and can be "budgeted" out. They are stubborn.

Fast-forward to now--Boomers are forcing decades-outdated workflow processes and legacy systems upon new college grads and bleeding profits (rather than heed the advice of the young). Guess who's eating the losses and having their expensively attained skills decay in real-time because of these boomers?

Once boomers die off and cede management positions to younger generations the world will truly be a better place (if they don't destroy it before then).

b is to>>18100738

I worked in tech for 12+ years. I was always expected to attend the meetings and work all the OT hours required to get things done. I didn't mind, because I had the energy and drive to do it. I liked moving the ball forward and accomplishing goals. But, as the years went on, more and more "diversity" was creeping into the workforce, which meant more communication problems and inefficiency from what I could observe.

In the past, it felt like meetings were used for genuine collaboration. Today it seems like most meetings are used to resolve communication problems and misunderstandings, which is a collective waste of everyone's productivity. This is the side of corporate diversity that no one tells you about.

Eventually, I realized that I had to abandon being an engineer and go into management. There was no way I could continue doing all the work and attending an obscene amount of meetings each day. Instead, I became the bureaucrat that I once hated. Now my job is to attend meetings between pajeets, asians and white people, without doing any actual work. No one gets anything done, anyways.

Corporate America is rotting from the inside out, thanks to the H1B virus. Don't sacrifice your life trying to lift dead weight, just find a position with the bureaucrats in a non-operational role and save yourself the stress.

How do I get one of these nothingburger jobs unironically

>>18100738
you work at azure?
or AWS?

>>18102860
nevermind u in oracle

>>18100738
Motherfucker you found paradise. Save and invest and retire after ten years of this retardation

>>18100738
Is your name David?

>>18103875
Then use this opportunity to use poor peoples money to make real political change. Dont bail out banks, invest in the crtiical recession proof industries- forestry, construction, government projects (not privatization, because that fucks the renter), schools, shit like that. Didnt you guys ever think about house youre leasing?
https://gist.github.com/12345six6seven/cdda90d244061feb4626b8a447c69816

>>18104448
Sorry mate, didnt know how things worked. Its fun tho, should be sorted now.

>>18104300
How do I get one of these nothingburger jobs unironically

leverage your current position for a higher paying job with greater responsibilities. don't worry about jumping, it's a goyop

Imagine having all the building's restrooms to yourself. Must be great.

>>18104654
sometimes you need to nut up to shitty situations
but the new git is a lol hit!

>>18104618
>>18104300
How do I get one of these nothingburger jobs unironically

>>18105096
anything else I should know while I have experienced guys like you here
berating me?

>>18105170
I dunno, I picked this up a week ago, learned how to speak 3 days ago and here I am. I think I went past go a few too many times and I hit the lotto desu.

>>18100738
enjoy the new corporate job lull. in 2 months you will likely be very busy and you'll look back fondly on these days.

>>18105234
Thats kind of hilarious. Sounds like it'll be fun.
I, for one, want to buy a yacht.

>>18105221
Nice but I’m serious, help a fellow white person out we must stick together in these trying demographic times.

>>18104228

I had a nervous breakdown from working 80+ hours and literally killing myself trying to make everything run well. After I quit that job I just became the laziest motherfucker imaginable and just attempted to maximize my own money for giving in the least amount of effort.

Corporate America is horribly blackpilling and you either let it kill you or you decide to start killing it.

>>18105349
Thank for the owners meeting.
I assume we're over?

>>18100738
>I'm an expert in my field.
>I've gotten my first 6 figure job
Pick one. I thought I was en expert in my field too, then I realized so was everyone else in the room. Welcome to little fish in a big pond syndrome where the company doesn't care about wasting your time because there's one or two god-level engineering prodigies somewhere in the org and everyone's job is just to let them be smart. It ind-of blows, but the paycheck is nice.

>>18102239
You just apply or you join the military and get assigned to the right MOS and then get an offer in 5-15 years when you get out. I got an offer for one of them out of grad school, but I sold out for industry money. In retrospect I should've taken that job.

>>18105373
I was killed. Now I will kill. Anyone, anywhere. Real life or business.

Life is unbelievably easy if you have even a slightly above average IQ

>>18105445
Truth. I worked my ass off for years for 1-3% plus a stock refresher that kept getting smaller. Now I've learned to project the same try-hard burnt-out persona and I do my work, but I've cut all the "above and beyond" staying late and working on "passion project" bullshit out. My new passion project is not being at work and I do it as often as possible.

>>18100738
Most tech companies are like that during this current pandemic. People just aren't used to working from home.

>office is mostly indians
rip your life.

>>18105554

>My new passion project is not being at work and I do it as often as possible.

>>18100738
I have programming job at big company and get to spend most of it coding etc, hardly any meetings.
I'd die if I had to just go to meetings.

I work for a F80 or so in tech dev and I’m sincerely and unironically getting absolutely crushed during this virus thing. Probably will quit once my lockup expires; gimme that 40K vested.

>>18105716
Make sure they dont fuck you around with your 40k, if they look like they might go ass over tit then short their blood out lol

>>18103875
to be fair, most of these newer technology stacks are a load of overcomplexity and false promises

>>18105764
Oh it’s in writing and in a long term fidelity account; the company isn’t public but if it was and they were going tits up I’d tell you frens here first, like that guy that said fitbit or whoever was going to crush their earnings by 60% a day before it happened a few years ago

>>18105793
Youve been operating in the market for a while, surely you have some opinion on the market predictions highlighted?

>>18105826
The SEC called, they want their secretary to stop sitting in the big boy office.

>>18105170
>>18104618
>>18104300
How do I get one of these nothingburger jobs

>>18105870
Honestly I’d take being a secretary instead, those old hags do nothing except gossip and make everyones life difficult for I think 80k/yr

>>18105373

"Here's your 3% annual bonus anon aka just enough to keep up with inflation. Thanks for working all those unpaid nights and weekends on salary. Who else is going to clean up this H1B slop job so our investors can make more money, am I right? Ha! Ha! Ha!"

"Oh, thank you Mr. Manager! I'm going to work so much harder now on this project that I'm excited about. I'm going to show everyone how good I am at my job. Too bad my work will effectively be meaningless when this company gets sold a year from now to force our product out of the market and all of my sacrificed time gets discarded along with it. Oh well, all those pats on the back and pizza parties were totally worth it!"

I'm completely with you anon. I don't do shit now. I set deadlines as far away as possible and coast from meeting to meeting. I don't try anymore, because there's no reason to.

>>18105870
I actually received training on a number of newer technology stacks, but when I went into the corporate world it was simply old old technology, like 1980s

as for version control, we use it as a database rather than a workflow mechanism - for that we copy and paste files on windows drives into our local directories

we use oracle sql, we raise tickets that take weeks to process a simple software switch because no one cares about your access requests unless you're a higher manager

You pretend to work and they pretend to pay you.
That’s how the whole economy works

>>18105919
Know someone

>>18105948
Not entirely true. There's usually one nice secretary that will help if you ask politely and one himmler impersonator. Such is the way of the secretarial office pool at my employer.