I caught myself envying the barista at Starbucks yesterday. No KPIs, no passive-aggressive Slack threads, just making coffee and going home. This job has me romanticizing minimum wage, and that’s probably a sign I need to eject.
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@4b4 God speaks again.
OP needs to reinvent world-class ai and revolutionize innovative communities. This step would drive leading-edge e-markets into the bright future!
@4g2 overheard a conversation by a water cooler that OP is leaving soon. At least one advantage of the RTO - better information.
@4be No, the OP is romanticizing about a retail job. Something they have no clue about. My advice to them - quit F5, become a Starbuck’s barista. It would be a great life lesson for them. But no one here is quitting F5. Just complaining. Some have been laid off and are bitter and can’t move on.
Life lessons people… life lessons. Complain less. Work more. Learn more. Play more. If you can’t do any of those… completely change things.
@4be No, the OP is romanizing about a retail job. Something they have no clue about. My advice to them - quit F5, become a Starbuck’s barista. It would be a great life lesson for them.
@4b4 OP is convinced that a mission statement has big deals. State-of-the-art core competencies have corporate product lines. He feels that impactful hits will enable contexts. Resolutions sign off on extensible headcount readjustments, however a leading-edge red flag agrees to disagree. Cutting-edge objectives blow them away. It all will be fine in the end.
@4b4
Or the OP brings up issues that F5 is embarrassed to recognize and deal with....
Did the OP finally leave F5 to get that super easy retail job? So easy. Dealing with perfectly behaved customers, subbing for the best absent coworkers at the last minute at the gentle urging of your boss at 5am, cleaning bathrooms that never get messy. The OP is going to be so glad they left F5!
Seriously, when you post something like the OP did it just screams you're very spoiled, very isolated, very naive, who has no clue about anything. I really hope they leave F5 to go find out what a difficult job is really like. F5 would be better off without them. We need employers with more life experience and empathy for service workers.
@f9 What can be, unburdened by what has been! You will be fine!
"how to make F5 a better company"
Are you an owner or what? People get paid for time - the most precious resource. Who gives... about the company. Maybe those VPs that cashed stock and left leaving mess behind?
I'm tired too. Too much of how great F5 is and it isn't. No one wants to be bothered with how to make F5 a better company. Bye.
Starbucks baristas? Seriously? I guess you’re not up on current events. They are unionizing wherever they can. You think they are doing that because they are super duper happy?
Unless you founded the company, your job su-ks. Because you have a boss. Start a side gig where you are the boss. Keep “working” at F5 for insurance. That is the only way to survive… any corporate job.
It's about understanding what we need to do to, again, understand that, to your point, we have to have a holistic response to this issue and prioritize it, instead of reacting to the tragedy that, sadly, they are too predictable.