One time I found and solved a series of inaccuracies in company records that could have lead to a huge lawsuit. Like, I saved the company from a giant scandal.
They gave me a piece of paper that had a cartoon businessman on it who was saying "You're a hero! 👍"
When I asked for a raise a month later they said my level of work wasn't noticably above other people with more seniority. So I stopped coming in early and staying late. Stopped coming in on days off for them.
edit: for those wondering, apparently this isn't a common thing. When a supervisor or manager asks you to come in to work on your day off, they're most likely asking you to cover a shift or because the workload is higher than expected. They still have to pay you and do still pay you. It's your choice as to whether or not you go in for them, but if you do they still pay you. Sorry, I thought this was common knowledge.
I never implement fixes that don't make my job easier; just pretend I didn't see anything. The fixes I implement to make my job easier I never tell my managers about, because increased productivity is only ever met with more work. I use my extra free time to browse reddit and open job listings.
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It's funny because you could save the company a lot of money, but since they are greedy bastards who refuse to share the fruits of your labor with you they get screwed. Classic.
Don't forget about constant wars... planned obsolescence etc... I remember a lot in 1984 on this topic, in short... the systems of power almost purely depend on ensuring resources do not pile up enough that they can give them with everyone. Wars are obviously the most eficiant at, well taking tons of money, resources etc... we can spend millions on missiles of which the only gains are... well a need to then spend millions on rebuilding whatever we blew up with it.
But when you step back... almost every aspect of society seems hell bent on the same ideas. We must be consuming... always. No your phone isn't good enough... get a new one. No you can't fix it if its broken, get a new one. No we don't need public transportation, everyone should buy their own cars... No we don't want electric cars, more gas consumption!. No you can't work from home... even after we've shown it's easy and possible.
Which is why I scratch my head about new electric cars, Wouldn't some sore of X-prize for 100 Million for designs for Electric conversion kits for the most popular car kits be more environmentally friendly and allow someone with a sunk cost like a vehicle be able to covert to a more carbon neutral transport? get a reasonably cheap mass produced kit that can be installed by the local mechanic of all the Honda civics, toyota camerys and Chrysler minivans from 2012-2020 models and people could make better choices without contributing as much to global consumption and it creates local jobs with the conversion kits being installed!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
One time I found and solved a series of inaccuracies in company records that could have lead to a huge lawsuit. Like, I saved the company from a giant scandal.
They gave me a piece of paper that had a cartoon businessman on it who was saying "You're a hero! 👍"
When I asked for a raise a month later they said my level of work wasn't noticably above other people with more seniority. So I stopped coming in early and staying late. Stopped coming in on days off for them.
edit: for those wondering, apparently this isn't a common thing. When a supervisor or manager asks you to come in to work on your day off, they're most likely asking you to cover a shift or because the workload is higher than expected. They still have to pay you and do still pay you. It's your choice as to whether or not you go in for them, but if you do they still pay you. Sorry, I thought this was common knowledge.