Do yourself a favor and donât stick with these kind of employers. Iâve only worked for one company where I had to routinely send CYA emails. Should have resigned the second I figured out that the CEO was morally bankrupt and my boss was a spineless jackass who refused to stand up to him. I donât miss that job one bit.
Always cover your ass. Every âThis is illegalâ or âThis is unsafeâ email needs to be BCCâd to your private email adres.
Iâve had a company hire me as an indpendant consultant, because the law says they need someone qualified to check their waste management plans. Their plan basically said âWeâll take one scoop of polluted soil, and mix it with the clean soil, making sure to stay under the legal limits for clean soilâ. I told them that was really, really illegal, would cost them their license, would cost me my license, and would cost every person who signed it several thousands of euroâs personally. I also email them.
4 months later, I get inspectors ringing my doorbell, holding up the plan I very definitely didnât sign, with what absolutely was my signature. If I didnât have those emails, Iâd be royally fucked. With those emails, we could add fraud to the charges.
I have a degree. I didnât take the PE exam. I just work as a drafter, though Iâve done a lot more before this. The lack of stress is something Iâve never experienced. I design some easy stuff, make drawings, and my supervisor has to sign off on everything. I donât stress about anything, I almost never even think about work after I leave. I make the same as I did 4 years ago but work 20% as hard and have 0% of the stress.
- Donât break the Law for the company or the boss.
- Keep the company shit in company devices and your shit in your devices. That means company computer and phone for their stuff and your own for yours. If thereâs ever any Lawsuit or Criminal investigation on the company they wonât take your stuff as evidence if you donât at all use it for company work and wonât intrude in your privacy if the company stuff isnât used for your own stuff.
- Even if itâs totally legal, if something that your are being ordered to do against your better advice might come back to bite you (i.e. you might get blamed for the negative outcome you predict will come from it), get that order in writing.
Even your direct lead canât be assumed to be your friend (no matter how nice: niceness is easily and commonly faked) until youâve gone through some proper shit together and he or she has shown themselves to be somebody that will take the hit rater than âblame their underlingsâ - trusts is earned, not due.
The kind of company were Management and HR go around trying to convince employees theyâre like family and other similar things are simply trying to act like abusive cults.
I remember telling a VP spouting family stuff âI never lived in a family that sold off a branch to a different familyâ
He shrugged and said âget a no-trade clause in your contractâ
Also, families feel free to engage in horrific emotional abuse, I want a professional relationship with work, tyvm.
