Their marketing team deserves a raise

@matste ? -9

This is sadly very true. What’s harder to deal with is the higher up you get you notice that middle and higher management making decisions have limited technical understanding yet are responsible for choices that should not lie with them.

However there are companies that do exists with amazing dev-led cultures. When you find them - stay! They are a rare kind.

@svgPhoenix I’ve already moved jobs. The point is I didn’t want to and shouldn’t have had to.

@svgPhoenix this type of situation shouldn’t have been possible. Preventing this type of misconduct is basic - and preventing this comes from HR process and structure.

They didn’t advise me to raise it officially. They couldn’t do that due to *appearing* impartial.

When I asked “if I raise this officially what happens to me” vs “if I don’t raise this officially what happens to me” - they couldn’t tell me. There’s was no solution on the table either way.

Raising an official grievance places the onus on me to aggregate the evidence, emails, screenshots etc and to see it through and for what? They couldn’t tell me a possible outcome or solution.

They had plenty of upfront notice but they just didn’t care. That’s the crux, my experience and contributions are not valued to the point where the only real choice I have is to take myself out of it.

@svgPhoenix they are useless due to the way HR is structured. It’s not independent, it’s not for the employee. I followed their processes upto that point, my manager’s freelance contract ended at the time of taking to HR - the choice would be for them to re-hire. I asked, if I raised this officially, what happens to me - they just shrugged - “we don’t know”

@gsn16 I agree with your sentiment.

However I don’t even know what this was for? It’s like saying, just calling you to let you know that party I was going to invite you to is not happening...I can’t tell you what party.

Why did you delete it? I tend to find blog wise time can add in value due to shares, SEO etc

@Billcountry @illusion466 Really?

I’m in the middle of a technical at the moment for a role I actually want. Which will take several days.

You’re happy do the tests for random roles, blindly? Do you not think you need to invest your time wisely? Is it not their role to convince first you that their company is somewhere you want to work?

Stuff like this happens far too often. 😂🤣

@zickig I know right?! She tried to make it out it was “their industry”. I’ve not worn a suit during my entire Dev career... It would have been really weird putting on a tie to code.

@AlexDeLarge exactly, they ask me to absorb all the risk, while there’s still every chance of them getting it wrong and “no longer need me,” then I’ve wasted an entire day and am down £90.

😂🤣😂 so torn, it’s so passive aggressive but I enjoy the Easter Egg nature of it.

It’s just such a shame that we can’t be honest in a way that allows us to maintain integrity, flag relevant issues and continue good relationships. 😢

@ymas I’ve done this. I’ve stopped doing anything around this and just sent a note to HR saying I felt raising a complaint with the CIO was inappropriate.

@C0D4 Um...does that make it OK? It often depends on the value system of the company you’re at..

Eg disabled users have better things to do than take on a shoe company compared to a medical service. That alone will often trickle top-down into what is deemed acceptable code.

@DLMousey good point! Yes in the UK.

However I’m pretty sure there is an equivalent in the US. Target, Netflix have all fined across the pond due to a11y.

@C0D4 yeah it’s the law! It’s part of the equality act 2010. A product or service must make reasonable adjustments for disabled users.

Why do you think services like BBC, gov.uk are highly accessible.

You don’t need to label those elements they are naturally accessible if they follow web standards

I agree!! I love that about in tech the tools can be applied to any industry

Ah mate soooo not your role

Racist...how?

@succcubbus do you know how many Devs have said the same thing...

@byanjati ahha no! It gets worse everyone is on a personal free version of Trello!

@Flygger old course, docx is the standard for sharing text based documents however for developer CV it’s not appropriate IMHO.

Amazing!!

*hangs up*

@IllSlapU I’ll tell you why:

1) You potentially need Word installed to open it
2) it’s editable anyone can change it
3) PDF is the correct format.

I thought chrome had fixed this / put it behind a password. So bad if they haven’t...

Hey @ymas, I feel like it winds me up so much as it’s so stupid.

Also, the company talks this big game about being a tech office...but then has this Uber corporate response to something so basic.

Also, I am reminded about it everytime I want a drink or food. I have to remember to bring my cup and a spoon with me everytime I want a tea.

The thing is I’ve flagged this via the right channels. I started with the office manager, then my line manager, then we have a change person and finally HR. If I am lucky enough to get a reply they fob me off..😡🤬

I love this and that you put your team above a client for the right reasons.

@LordKerwin 😳the power of IT.

Was her mail not on exchange? Like did you not have access to this without using SSH?