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next2naus

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  1. I accepted an offer, gave my notice and was ready to leave for the new gig and my employer countered. I;m happy to stay as I don't want to be out there "pounding the pavement" as it were with Covid and two young kids that are not old enough to be vaxxed but I regret staying. I'm back out again as soon as I can get my kids squared away, at least I get to collect a retention bonus in July.
  2. How about some chilled piss?
  3. Both WFR/RIFs I've been a part of had Legal and HR, one a the Fortune #56 the other a smaller shop. I'm old, I've been doing what I do for over 25 YRS. Much of their participation depends on why the RIF/WFR is happening and are there items to consider like Benefits, Stock Options, Non Competes, Confidentiality, Inventions, etc.
  4. typically, HR and Legal should do it and not your Manager, you can talk to them later, but the actual call or meetings should be those other departments and a different manager from your department.
  5. kinda, some RIFs and WFR or whatever are executed better than others and it all depends on your severance and options in the market.
  6. but you had to drink the whole thing vs I only need two or three fancy boy beers.
  7. I spent $80 + at the beer shop the other day. Bought 3 Pints of BB Black Ops in cans, 2 Pints of those Bourbon Barrel Goose Islands, a couple cans of a Double NEIPA to try and a four pack of another brand of stours. didn't feel robbed.
  8. Why not Sub Sight? play a game of pool?
  9. I call BS....it took too long to get to and eat at SS for lunch, You could have easily gone to Dan's or Pizza machine. And it you went to that Gas Station, why not the bowling alley?
  10. You don't travel much do you?
  11. Who else went to 39 cent hmburgers in High School?
  12. Didn't Double Daves have an all you can eat Pepperoni Rolls night?
  13. we had a cabbie in Amagansett one night regal us of mucvh he despised the "Boober" (Uber) for ruining the cab business. LI Cabs are a whole thread unto itself. it's Ronkonkoma, and its where you wake up if you pass out on my train line coming home in the evening, the poors also take it to Macarthur Airport to fly Southwest.
  14. early 90's, right off I-35 frontage road and 290, by the Amayas Taco Village...once there lived a Bombay Bicycle Club (think: shitty Fridays or Bennegand ripoff) that had all you can eat Fajitas. good times for a college kid
  15. Mac owns the Taco Shack Bowl, just saying
  16. meh....money is being spent, doesn't mean much in reality. Example: I see investment in IAM and IDAS all day, and everyone is a disruptor with the nextGen AI, ML, blah blah, blah in very mature and crowed spaces. they can't all succeed. this specific market is hot b/c the tag line (with some truthiness) that "Identity is security" and the traditional IAM players needed to evolve, which they either do or they perish (looking at you CA and RSA) but we don;t need more Okta's or Ping's or ForgeRocks, etc. The investors backs up the spend with the "new normal" validation of everyone WFH, everything SaaS, everything cloud. Great, again the barrier to enter and survive this market is huge and the Enterprise has largely solved the issue and it's a race to the bottom on the SMB. fucking "unicorns" and "disruptive"...add that to the buzzword bullshit list. It started with "Synergy" in the 90's
  17. Not a big deal, I got one after we had the twins. Easy peasy, frozen peazy. about a week to rehab
  18. Sirloin Stockade on North Lamar. Food was shit but we ate there every Friday for team meal before football games, might have possibley contributed to how awful we were
  19. Propane is the most "self sufficient" but connecting to your homes NG line is the most hands free free / automagic option.
  20. And that's ok too. Sometimes knowing the likely outcome is helpful. I'm been bought and sold, all good. Sometimes you the smaller/start up shop gets acquired and you get incentives to stay for a year or two before you are folded into the big shops comp plan. For that period of time you are the shiny new toy and the overlay and its money money money till its not. The place I'm at, there were maybe 150 of us when I joined 7 years ago and it was a diamond in the ruff that had been around for 10 years and everyone had forgotten about it. We grew (350ppl), we merged (750), we acquired (2500 ppl in our BU) and we are a part of a (60K ppl) global organization that builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets.
  21. Thats a rare combo. Most Series B/C (Non Unicorns) are between 15 and 40 million in revenue and between 100 and 175 employees. Being a B or C with $250m in rev could easily result in a $1B valuation but there just are not that many of those and many of those out there are not built to last and their short life will likely result in being acquired. if the company has 2500-3000 employees...it's gonna be big and mature. the VC money doesn't always mean success, look at Wiz.....they are at Series C w/ $600m in funding and 180+ ppl. As far as I can tell it's growth by hiring, not a place for a Seller to be long term. Lot's or reps with small patches is how that typically works out.
  22. Tom Petty said that "the waiting is the hardest part" but for Salesmen it might be the second guessing and endless scenario processing in your head.
  23. Always will be. I've been doing the WFH for 20 years in a Field Sales role. I was always about 50/50 or 60/40 home office to customer facing. I probably tipped those scales to 65/35 once we had kids and moved out of NYC. I got very strategic with going to see clients/prospects face to face and really qualified my time spent. When Covid hit it wasn't much of a transition. Now I'm about to back out of a job I accepted as I don't really want to get back out there and break in a new product and category while Covid is still an issue and getting face time is still a risky prop and difficult as people are not in their offices. Sure I'll probably have pissed this recruiter and this new company off but on the flip side I got a 15 % bump in comp and mayb issues I had with my employer are being resolved, party in effort to stave off my departure and the attrition of others. better to take a raise right now and the devil I know.
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