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  Is your work contributing to a greater good? Are your daily tasks making you a better entrepreneur? Are... : Head Rush
  • M, N, N, N, N, N, N, Y, N : manero
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    why does your work have to contribute to the greater good or make you a better person? also, some people ... : dahanese
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      dude posed the question to himself. who said it has to apply 100% to everybody? : manero
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        i missed that part - it seemed more general! : dahanese
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          anyway i guess i'm N, Y, M, M, Y, M, Y, Y : dahanese
          • WHAT DOES THIS CONTRIBUTE?! : the if
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          Yeah, everyone's list is going to be a bit different. I was curious if other people construct these tangi... : Head Rush
          • i think my list would go as such: - are you happy with your work environment/tasks? - are you having ... : dahanese
    • Presumably those people who enjoy the lower-paying jobs would answer yes to most of these questions. The... : MaxPete82
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      If you have never worked at a job that didn't help anyone anywhere but the owners, feel lucky. : HockeyJohnston
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        ok, too many double negatives there, huh? : HockeyJohnston
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          you are saying "if you have ever helped someone beyond the company's owners you are lucky" right? : dahanese
          • I've worked places that I thought the world would literally be better off without. It's nice to have your... : HockeyJohnston
  • N, N, N, N, N, Y, N, N : riptyde
  • Y,N,N,N,Y,Y,Y,Y : ryuuseki
  • N, N, N, Y, Y, Y, Y : Korban
  • N,M,N,M,Y,N,Y,N : sKetchflow
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    I'm going to be "that guy", but I hate these threads where everyone replies with one-letter answers to a ... : jipey
    • never apologize for being right! : mikecyb
    • N : mindmann
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      Ok, here goes:
      
      Reasons I hate My Job, by manero.
      
      - Severe lack of leadership. 7 months ago my boss was shitcanned, and they put some other guy in place who I loathed. Dude was gone a few months later, and I have no relationship with the guy who replaced him.
      - No product vision or wider company mission. Since my boss was let go, we don't have a champion of the company and the products we're building. Feels like we're floating in a dinghy in the ocean.
      - We're playing "catch-up" to the competition. We're mostly building what we're building now because we screwed around on larger contracts for the past 2-3 years instead of working on what we should have been.
      - Layoffs
      - 20% companywide paycut / benefits reduction
      - Too many GD meetings
      - We killed our iPhone development projects because it was not "core" to the company. Since my boss was let go, we devolved our strategy into a "core competencies" thing which means that we're not putting any money on innovation. Just plugging away.

      Jan 03, 2011 5:31pm PST
      Ok, here goes: Reasons I hate My Job, by manero. - Severe lack of leadership. 7 months ago my boss... : manero
    • you're right - that's annoying. i just copied and pasted it into an email on my other screen so i could r... : dahanese
    • It`s easy. If there are more than 2 Ns, then the conclusion is pretty evident. : shirif
  • M,Y,Y,M,N,N,N,Y : Wombat Woo
  • N,M,M,N,Y,N,Y,N : shirif
  • FN, FN, FN, FN, FN, FN, Y, FN :( : pancake humper
  • Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y : fatman
  • M Y M Y Y M Y Y No No's pretty good actually. : historyinthemaking
  • Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y : DewFuel
• Also, I found this article the other day pretty interesting: http://www.chadfowler.com/2010/12/30/dea... : manero
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  This reminds of this http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/23/pf/workers_want_new_jobs/index.htm : thebigbeefsandwich
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    84%? goddamn. Seems like a lot of people I know changed jobs towards the end of the year. I usually do... : manero
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      That seems really, really high. : jimmy_legs
      • On one hand you hand you have the people looking for work and can't find it. On the other hand you have p... : erebus