Random Rants
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said in Random Rants:
we have an employee referral program that provides massive bonuses after 30 days of employment. I've referred dozens of people over the years, 25% or so have been hired and met the requirement. I've received one bonus. Fucking horseshit. Slimy corporate bastards.
Update:
Well, I barked this up the tree to HR with some help. After initially getting bullshitted, we took it higher, and I'm happy to report that it was quickly rectified. They're currently processing more IH fun-coupons for me for my overlooked bonuses....just in time for the holidays.Still a bit disheartening that ground level HR is so quick to deny, and you have to raise anything to get it dealt with appropriately. Really glad they fixed it tho.
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There was a lot on the line and it was worth putting up a fight. It seems once an organization reaches a certain size, they adopt a policy of fuck-the-pawns by default. It was almost too easy once I got above that threshold....weird
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well we cant have that now
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Building a very small deck for my entry way and needed a little bit of lumber. I know better than to go to Lowe’s for this but I have a location near my house and thought I could make do being a small project. The collection of damaged and warped boards was mind boggling… after over an hour of sifting through a pile of misfits and then being told they had “plastic?!?” joist hangers in stock (somehow they were out of galvanized steel hangers
) I got the fuck out of there and went to an independent lumber dealer. Over an hour drive away but quality product and there was a grizzly 70 year old with 3 lifetimes of knowledge working there that I could have kissed.
Fuck off Lowes
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@steelworker my mantra these days
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@flannel-slut yeah Lowe’s lumber is pretty shit. I’ve found a better spot, closer to home, but they charge a good 30% more. Fuhhhhh
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@WhiskeySandwich seriously. the %30 increase is no joke man but definitely money well spent.
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A couple years back, I wanted to build some picnic tables for my backyard. We have a pretty big outdoor patio area, so they needed to be at least 10 or 12 feet long or else they’d look like toddler tables. I found some plans online that I altered to work, and when I tried pricing out wood locally the costs were astronomical. I was hard set on having cedar and nothing else. I finally just reached out directly to some local cedar mills about an hour or two outside of town and got a direct price from them. $700 delivered on a flatbed trailer to my driveway. Other high-end lumber dealers in the Nashville area were charging me $1500-$2000 just to pick it up at their warehouse.
Didn’t even bother wasting my time going to Lowe’s or Home Depot, as I knew their choices for wood would’ve been absolute shit, let alone overpriced.
