Accidentally became
importantmore expensive at workOnly when you find a job willing to pay you more.
I left my last job and trained the guy that I wanted them to promote, but they needed a second person to replace me. I just heard they now have 3 people doing my job.
I was quite well paid (95k)but I’d rather get paid half as much now to leave work at work after 8 hours and never have work emails or calls or meetings on my own time ever again.
Lucky them. My company is attempting the Jenga strategy. How many core people can leave without replacement before it all crumbles. They’re absolutely confident they can just hire some people once it’s clear that it’s all falling apart and those people will be able to save the tower before it falls.
There’s no way they’re spending less on those three people than they spent on you.
Good for you for consciously deciding what you want your work-life balance to look like. But also remember this for salary negotiations: 3 people x 50k is 150k. And those three people also need time to coordinate among themselves. The value you were bringing to the company at that point was at least 200k.
When everything runs smoothly thanks to your contribution it becomes the new norm. Then management expects things to just work that way and whoever they hire next is fucked.
Whatever you do don’t let them see the fire of Kier in you!
Is this show any good?
It’s fantastic
Very good. People will say that Season 2 isn’t as good, but that’s only because Season 1 is a masterpiece. There was no way to match that, but it’s still great.
I liked Season 2 more TBH.
It’s fucking great.
Personal opinion first season was very, very good.
Also personal opinion second season was more middling but had some high points, including the finale sort of wrapping up some of the weaker ideas.
Also, I am very biased because I have lived in the same areas as the creator of the show and there’s endless local references that unless you’ve lived in many of the cities on the coast of Washington you wouldn’t immediately recognize.
For example the big bad evil oligarch family is named after a local chain of burger places in the creators hometown.
very
Its losing itself a bit but still quite good.
Did you create the show and the lore? No? Then how can you say that it’s “losing itself”?
I’m pretty sure Ben Stiller, and the rest, knew where the show was going to go in Season 2 from the start. Just because it’s going in a different direction than you thought, doesn’t mean it’s “losing itself.”
What a bizarre reply…
Did you create the show and the lore?
No.
Then how can you say that it’s “losing itself”?
I am able to form opinions on the show because I have watched it.
I’m pretty sure Ben Stiller, and the rest, knew where the show was going to go in Season 2 from the start.
Oh, yeah no I’m not quoting Ben Stiller good catch, this is my own opinion I formed by watching the show.
Just because it’s going in a different direction than you thought, doesn’t mean it’s “losing itself.”
Agreed. It’s losing itself for other reasons.
Does that help?
Of course you are entitled to your opinion. I just think “it’s losing itself” comes off more as a statement of fact than an opinion. At least to me. But I guess I misunderstood.
In my mind, at least this early on in a series, only the people who created the show can say if it’s “losing itself.”
I dont know what to say, its my opinion. I don’t think anyone was reading my comment as a statement of fact. I’m just a random person online, no ones treating me as an objective authority.
Other users have different opinions and are free to up and downvote my comment or post a different take and those can be upvoted.
If you disagree with / are interested in having me elaborate on my reasons for feeling like the show is losing itself I worry that might get into spoilers territory though I’m not in principle against that conversation in the right context.
Maybe just leave a comment saying “I don’t think it’s losing itself, it’s been consistently good this season” or something like that and let the upvotes do their thing?
But you started basically from a place of “you’re not the creator so you aren’t allowed to say that” and I cant really respond to that beyond pointing out I am allowed an opinion on it and that’s not a really productive way to open a discussion.
I get your argument, but look at Westworld. It started amazingly but stepped away from what it was and it definitely lost itself. Surely they had a plan as well.
That said, I don’t quite agree Severance is losing itself. The finale firmly sets the path forward.
What’s the show?
Severance. It‘s a show directed by Ben Stiller, where people get a small capsule put in their brain to completely seperate their work life from their personal life. They are basically two different people and they are showing all the moral and practical conflicts that happen due to the severing.
Thank you!
I’m going to have to look it up later
No good deed goes unpunished. An interesting thing happens in the military. If you are too valuable at your job they won’t let you go do the extra training that you need to get promoted faster. The shitbags that cause more work are sent instead.
We had a total shit bag in my unit and while we got to go do work, he was jumping out of a Black Hawk. When I was being processed out with a medical discharge, my life became so chill as they sent me to do the tasks they didn’t want to send their capable people onto. My 8-10 hour days turned into 3-4 hours. If I wasn’t being processed out, someone like that guy would have been doing it instead.
The military really does encourage being a shitbag.
I do not think that is unique to the military…
Promoted to your level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle at its finest
You stop being able to fail upwards when you become too important to promote.
you mean you’ve gained bargaining power?
Look for another job ¡!!
True words of wisdom.
