Comp time is a huge scam. I left a job because my manager always used the "comp time" excuse to make up my extra hours, when I left I had accrued 32 DAYS of comp time, and I still had 7 days of PTO left. I finally realized that I would never get my comp time. Funny thing is a year later I ended up going back to that employer. I did tell them that if they wanted me 24X7 they would pay for it and the salary I was demanding was NOT the 24X7 salary. They were fine with it and within 3 months I had my old managers job and now I make sure that anyone on my team takes a comp day 1-2 weeks after they earned it.
I agree, bring it to HR. I left a company because I was getting burned out and my manager just did not understand anything at all about what my department did. BUT when I left I made sure to do a exit interview with HR and I told HR exactly what I felt and went through. I tried to give constructive criticism and kept as much emotion out of it as I could.
After 11 months I got a chance to talk with them again and they wanted me back. By talking to HR I brought a lot of problems the department had to light and they started to get addressed. The people at my old managers manager level and above saw what I had said and they actually wanted me back to help fix things.
When it comes down to it the official company reference is going to come through HR and they are governed by specific laws on what they can and can not say. After that any reference is a personal one and you can pick the people at that company that you are still on good terms.
That's what we call it. We write up a set of directions so simple even a monkey could follow. We include screen shots at just about every step so the user can see what it looks like. Currently we have them in a mass collection of Word documents spread over a bunch of network drives. Yea, it sucks to find a particular direction document.
We are in the process of loading all of our monkey directions into a wiki. That may work for you. You could create pages that have the high level overview directions for the users that know what is what and then have each direction link off to another wiki page that has more detail.
No matter what direction or option you find one thing you need to keep in mind is the more simplistic you make your directions the harder it is to keep them up to date.
It's more a statement of how the person saying it feels about being single. If you did not feel being single was tragic you would probably state it along the lines of "yes-I'm-single dept"
Too bad my last employer did not think like this. When I gave notice I also had outlines how I would transfer all of my little known knowledge to my peer and the management loved that. But then they piled a couple more projects on top that they wanted me to get done and my 2 day in-depth transfer was cut to 2 1 hour sessions. Not the best way to try and fill in someone on all the little nuances.
And there is no need to say that I should have done better documenting this along the way. I did what I could, I even added time into my project estimates to allow me to do just that but when a company is hell bent on making as much money as possible and not care at all what kind of quality it pushes out the door it does not always happen.
The peer I left behind is a good friend of mine and in the months after I left he would email me from time to time asking for hints on the "little problems". I helped where I could but I was limited to memory alone, no more looking at my little notes, hints or tips and tricks stuff in the code.
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Comp time is a huge scam. I left a job because my manager always used the "comp time" excuse to make up my extra hours, when I left I had accrued 32 DAYS of comp time, and I still had 7 days of PTO left. I finally realized that I would never get my comp time. Funny thing is a year later I ended up going back to that employer. I did tell them that if they wanted me 24X7 they would pay for it and the salary I was demanding was NOT the 24X7 salary. They were fine with it and within 3 months I had my old managers job and now I make sure that anyone on my team takes a comp day 1-2 weeks after they earned it.
I agree, bring it to HR. I left a company because I was getting burned out and my manager just did not understand anything at all about what my department did. BUT when I left I made sure to do a exit interview with HR and I told HR exactly what I felt and went through. I tried to give constructive criticism and kept as much emotion out of it as I could.
After 11 months I got a chance to talk with them again and they wanted me back. By talking to HR I brought a lot of problems the department had to light and they started to get addressed. The people at my old managers manager level and above saw what I had said and they actually wanted me back to help fix things.
When it comes down to it the official company reference is going to come through HR and they are governed by specific laws on what they can and can not say. After that any reference is a personal one and you can pick the people at that company that you are still on good terms.
That's what we call it. We write up a set of directions so simple even a monkey could follow. We include screen shots at just about every step so the user can see what it looks like. Currently we have them in a mass collection of Word documents spread over a bunch of network drives. Yea, it sucks to find a particular direction document.
We are in the process of loading all of our monkey directions into a wiki. That may work for you. You could create pages that have the high level overview directions for the users that know what is what and then have each direction link off to another wiki page that has more detail.
No matter what direction or option you find one thing you need to keep in mind is the more simplistic you make your directions the harder it is to keep them up to date.
It's more a statement of how the person saying it feels about being single. If you did not feel being single was tragic you would probably state it along the lines of "yes-I'm-single dept"
Too bad my last employer did not think like this. When I gave notice I also had outlines how I would transfer all of my little known knowledge to my peer and the management loved that. But then they piled a couple more projects on top that they wanted me to get done and my 2 day in-depth transfer was cut to 2 1 hour sessions. Not the best way to try and fill in someone on all the little nuances.
And there is no need to say that I should have done better documenting this along the way. I did what I could, I even added time into my project estimates to allow me to do just that but when a company is hell bent on making as much money as possible and not care at all what kind of quality it pushes out the door it does not always happen.
The peer I left behind is a good friend of mine and in the months after I left he would email me from time to time asking for hints on the "little problems". I helped where I could but I was limited to memory alone, no more looking at my little notes, hints or tips and tricks stuff in the code.