Keep putting the company first, just one more time...

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[–]Mnemonic 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I part time (well really really part time, 1-2 a month) with a small company and I was called in one day when they were having their annual 'counting and comparing products' which is four huge (all take about 5-10 minutes each to load in excel, mental!) excel sheets that need to be compared. The best thing was they did manual JOIN ON operations and none of the list had the same identifier, so you needed all four searched and well, a mess. It usually took 2 people about 3 full work weeks to comb through.

I saw that, asked for the files, put them on my USB and at home I and I spend about 30 minutes conjuring up a .jar that did it all (I used a reduced data set for testing because in the end it took well over 40 minutes to run it all).

The next day i dropped by for a surprise visit and since then I get a lot of vacation money (vacation money is like 50-100% of your monthly earnings paid out once a year in the summer or winter) but I barely work there, still my vacation pay out is four digits clean (monthly earning 2-3 digits :p). Also with Christmas I get beer send to me with a gift card. And I get called for advise (barely 30min conversations) and the next paycheck features an extra work day.

[I did revise the 'script' once when I got my first vacation money so the code-gods could be proud again, the first incarnation was a 30-minutes sloppy job]

So yeah, with small companies that girl wouldn't take the ball away. {And yes I know, I'm still 99% cheaper than hiring a consultant}

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nice, that's an awesome success story. Glad to hear the company is rewarding you for it! In the US they'd probably just fire you after you solve their problem, because they don't need you anymore and would like to keep the money they're paying you lol. At least that's happened to me, more than once, it's the worst. Sounds like you've got a good situation going

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not for this year I think, but they were nice to work with. (Small company with 4 employees).

A small rule of thumb, if you don't meet with the boss (or at least the head manager/your local boss) within your first week of work, you're the 'slave'. And with meeting I mean informal not talking business, more about you and how you're experiencing the new setting.

[–]SaidtItFirst 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This seems to be demoralizing propaganda, as if doing what they pay you to do is a trap.

Unless they promised you 72 virgins then don't expect 72 virgins, and if they do promise you 72 virgins, you might want to find a different job... cause Heime down the street is offering 72 virgins AND free cable.