UNLV Rebels

[DooKSucks]

Yeah. The sad part is that she has developed some health issues and the stress is affecting her health and conditions. She didn’t tell us about her issues until we started seeing some things and figured out something was wrong. She is a good employee, great with clients and a good interpreter. So, we are making her a receptionist and are starting a new paralegal/assistant next week. The current paralegal/assistant will help train her and will still catch some overflow stuff from me.

[innocentbystander]

People are way too damn greedy, and I blame this bullshit on the Reagan / supply side / Friedman / “Chicago school” dipshits who came of age during the 80’s / still buy into that cult with the whole “greed is good” mantra. The fuckers forget the other side the equation and infected the world with their bullshit, leaving us with this fucked up situation the vast majority have not seen adequate increases in wages over the past 20-30 years.

Don't blame Reagan on the suppression of wages, blame the bi-partisan NAFTA, globalism, and the pro immigration billionaires on Wall Street and Silicon Valley including the Kochs. Your connecting billionaires to Republicans. That's outdated thinking. The vast majority of billionaires support the Democratic party these days. There is nothing these guys would love more to have mass immigration to lower their labor costs. Liberals love immigration because it gives them more votes so the Bernie Sanders and the AOCs will hold their nose and support the Biden wing while to hell with workers. The revolution started with electing Trump. Trump may be disliked and gone, but people love his stance on immigration, climate and China to protect their livelihoods. They are voting with their feet and leaving the states and cities that are socialist.

Sardis, don't hold your breath. Everything you said is correct but DS will not dignify any of your points because the democrat party has not given him a narrative to memorize to respond to your logic. And he can't think for himself so he will just disregard all of this.

[eCat]

so the guy I just promoted informed me he is transferring to another group.

In one sense its a hit to the organization, however its going to give me a chance to bring in a guy from scratch and not one I have inherited so I can kind of establish the job description without having to balance what I need to get done while still trying to support him in his original goals.

I did what I could do, a 10% raise, promotion and bonus pool increase. It was just too late.

[innocentbystander]

I just talked to my boss a few minutes ago and I'm going to give the first guy a $10K raise in June. We'll also bump his bonus pool so he should be happy.

The second guy , well, he is a great employee but he needs to read the room. I just bumped his salary more than $10K. I'm not prepared to go to bat for him twice in the same year

eCat, question. You don't have to answer it, but I am curious.

Are you giving these guys raises because

• you know that the market will give them a raise if you don't
• they told you that they had a job offer to give them a raise and you have to match it
• they just threatened to leave if you didn't give them a raise
• all of the above
• none of the above (it was something else)

I only ask because I am usually on the other side of this. I don't ask for raises (ever) and I just expect that my employer knows my worth and rewards me adequately. When that doesn't happen (and the following scenario has happened 3 times) then I send out resumes, I get job offers with the raise I am supposed to get from my current employer (that they didn't automatically give me), I ask to talk to my boss privately and I give him/her my 2 week's notice, my boss is ALWAYS surprised, and they lose their shit and try to threaten me or blackmail me into staying. They act in some way like I am "abandoning" them. They are never happy for me. And they go out of their way to tell me that I am the asshole for not letting them know that I was sending out resumes.

I have heard some really awful, tug-at-your-heart-strings, threats.

We can't find workers, so I asked my VP yesterday

look, if we were looking to hire a guy with 10 years experience, who knew our processes and products, would we hire him at X amount? He knew immediately where I was going wih my questoin and he agreed we would, so the next obvious question is then why aren't we paying this guy that amount? Its easier to keep a good employee than to hire one.

I know the guy is worth X on the market ( I don't want to get into specific but its over $100K) and he could find a job. So right now he has big leverage.

That said, I don't want to put him in a position where 2 years from now when the job market balances out and you can find workers again that we can find a replacement worker for $30K less. The other part of this is , assuming he is still working for me in 5 years, he better not come to me again with the I'm not paid enough routine. My experience is in an organization this size, you can't go to the well twice. I suspect that is going to happen however if the market continues to grow and there is a lack of experience STEM workers.

Sadly, I'm geting to that point so at my age, I constantly have to make sure I am adding value and creating opportunities within the organization due to my salary. I have 20 years experience, but a guy with 10 can probably do my job, so the company is paying me for an overhead of 10 years salary.

I had a guy working for me that was a few years from retirement, making serious money. His yearly bonus was almost what we hire kids right out college, and he had got to the point where he was only doing work that he was good at, that was low effort. The reality was I could hire a guy making half what he made and be more productive. So raise time came around and I gave the guy essentially a cost of living - which I wasn't even supposed to do, I was told to give him nothing.

So here is a guy making about $105K more a year than his boss (me) which happens. I don't hold a grudge - he has put in him time and managed himself to where he got to this point so more power to him. But he'd become lazy in thinking that he could just do stuff that he was good at and the company would continue to value him for it. So management wanted me to essentially let him go which I pushed back on, then they told me to not give him a raise, which I ignored and gave him enough money so that he didn't lose year over year. During our annual meeting where I give him his raise similar to what I was talking about earlier, he fucking unloads on me, telling me how I'm the worst boss he has ever had, how he can't work for me, borderline accused me of being age discriminatory (and here I am in my 50's) and he went to HR to file a grievance on my evaluation of him. I chose not to tell him about any discussions I had with management - that would be bad for me so I just nodded my head during his rant and let him think I had this personal vendetta against him. I did discuss with him the average salary of a person doing what he does but his response was he was part of another team, not those losers so that went no where.

Fast forward 3 months later, he goes to work for another group and transfers out of mine. I asked him was he sure because his new boss had a history of getting rid of workers who don't perform. His new boss wtihin a year transferred him to another boss in their organization and about 6 months after that the new boss fired him. There was more to the story, we knew he was running his wife's real estate business during working hours. It wasn't an accusation I wanted to pursue because of the veiled threats of age discrimination, so I considered it a blessing he left me.

Thank you

[eCat]

competition is about first and foremost about fairness.

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A 22-year old transgender swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania continued her dominant performance this season — setting numerous pool, meet and program records at a three-day event in Ohio last weekend.

Lia Thomas blew away her competition Friday night in the 500-yard freestyle preliminaries and finals at the Zippy Invitational at the University of Akron, according to results posted by the school.

In the finals, Thomas notched a winning time of 4:34.06 — good enough for a new Ivy League record.

The swimmer continued smashing records on Saturday with a nearly 7-second victory in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:41.93 — representing the fastest finish in the country, the school said.

Over the weekend, Thomas also set a new program, meet and pool record in the 1650-yard freestyle. She finished that race in 15:59.71 — more than 38 seconds ahead of second-place finisher, and teammate, Anna Kalandadze.

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas set a new Ivy League record at a meet in Ohio.

“(Swimming) is a huge part of my life and who I am. I’ve been a swimmer since I was 5 years old,” Thomas told Penn Today last June.

“Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding.”

[Jungle Rat]

Good for it

[innocentbystander]

Would you feel "good for it" if "it" defeated your daughter in the 200-yard freestyle?

[Jungle Rat]

I never would have thought of it to begin with had Mr. Get Off My Lawn didn't bring it up. I don't care.

[innocentbystander]

Okay.

I care. I care because if we are going to bother to have women's sports AT ALL then let's make sure that they are women (and women only) who are competing in women's sports. Otherwise, don't even have women's sports. What would be the point? I could take any men's division-2 college basketball team (just a few scholarship athletes) and if they all sign a petition saying that they are "transitioning" from male to female, I could coach them into a division-1 championship game against any collegiate women's basketball team in the country. And my team would win 100 to 20 or whatever.

It matters. It matters to the women in these sports that I can promise you. You think even one of those female swimmers at that meet was happy for "it?"

[DooKSucks]

You couldn’t coach a fucking midget to pass under a four foot tall limbo poll.

[innocentbystander]

Maybe someday you'll answer even ONE of my questions?

Hey DS, is the "liberal" in you an ally of women here where women are being marginalized by allowing men to compete in their sports OR is the "liberal" in you an ally of insanity here saying that men can actually transition to women and should have the right to compete against women in their sports?

Which is it counsellor? Which of your fellow liberals do you choose to alienate?

I am ally of the women here. They should have their own sports. Or (if we are going to let men compete in women's sports) then let's NOT have men or women's sports. Let's just have "sports" (no gender assigned.) And take it from there.

[DooKSucks]

Let’s just shoot you instead

[Jungle Rat]

Dude just said he's an ally of women. I give up.

[innocentbystander]

Women I love rat. I love them.

Feminism I hate.

Feminism <> women. These two terms are NOT one and the same (the way you may have learned it.)

Don't give up rat. Instead, you must UNLEARN that which you have learned.

[innocentbystander]

Let’s just shoot you instead

You are such a coward. You can't even answer a simple question if there is the slightest chance that in doing so, it might force you to re-evaluate your twisting thinking. I can answer any of your questions. I can't even imagine how frightening life must be for you to be so intellectually fragile as to never dignify reality if that reality could interfere in anyway with your fantasies of the magic thinking of leftism.

You have my pity.

[Jungle Rat]

You're fucked up dude. Seriously

[innocentbystander]

No rat. No, I'm not.

Men should not be competing in women's sports. Period. Full stop. It's a big deal. To me it is. If it's not a big deal to you, okay I get it. That doesn't make you (or I) a seriously fucked up dude. It just means you and I don't hold this matter to the same level of seriousness.

I asked DS a simple question. He can't answer it. I knew he wouldn't before I asked it. Instead, he wants to shoot me in the head for asking a question. He says lets just shoot me in the head and YOU say that I am the one that is seriously fucked up. Well someone on this board might be seriously fucked up, but rat, it's NOT you OR me.

I think you may need to re-evaluate.

[Jungle Rat]

Nope. You need help.

[eCat]

one of the guys that works for me - he's transitioning as part of a team is an anti-vaxxer.

I was scheduled to give him his review today.

He's out...with Covid

he's a young guy so I'm sure he'll be fine.

[hedge]

"I am ally of the women here."

You're a vocal opponent of abortion rights yet you claim to be an ally to women?