re: What is the worst you've ever been focked over by your job/boss/employer?

The Big Green Weenie is the worst.

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I just wanted a new breakfast, mine was a little undercooked.

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Well hopefully your coworker had a helluva piss.

No, not anymore. When I was doing it, I was a unicorn. Nobody in the middle of the country was doing much with the internet yet. I should have picked up and gone to the coast but I had family that needed help, and all our family on both sides is here.

I worked with a lot of places as a consultant. Did a stint in cyber security for a bit. VP in the Oilfield. Municipal and Industrial sales. I've pretty much done it all.

Affiliate marketing is difficult. Back then you could do it and make good money. Now it's pretty much automated. Much harder to gain market share.

Google killed the fun competition in PPC's by keeping it opaque. When I was doing it you could see who was spending what on which keywords. We'd have EPIC wars over high dollar keywords where if you could hold the number one position at certain hours, you got the sales. If you were 2nd or 3rd, you could get some but most of it was going to that top spot so it gets expensive if you've got competition that's paying attention. Now you can't see squat and Google isn't going to tell you shite. Just throw money at it and hope for the best because you can't get the information that would help.

My relief got ran off by the oil company, he went in and cried to our Superintendent to keep his job. The oil company said one of the expat night pushers had to go so they made a deal for my relief to stay and I got laid off. It was a Canadian mafia on that rig, they got every expat replaced that wasn't Canadian, I was the last American to leave.

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Google killed the fun competition in PPC's by keeping it opaque. When I was doing it you could see who was spending what on which keywords. We'd have EPIC wars over high dollar keywords where if you could hold the number one position at certain hours, you got the sales. If you were 2nd or 3rd, you could get some but most of it was going to that top spot so it gets expensive if you've got competition that's paying attention. Now you can't see squat and Google isn't going to tell you shite. Just throw money at it and hope for the best because you can't get the information that would help.

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Thank you for sharing.

I've only read about the early days of the ppc Google. I'm not sure but I think there are programs or SAAS that tell you the bids, but they are crazy expensive monthly.

[quote]How does him being catholic fit into this story?[/
Treated his employees that weren’t his idiot kids like shite. Gave me shite because my appendix burst and I spent a day in the hospital with a major infection. Wore his religion on his sleeve but hey as long as you confess to the middleman all is good. That’s how.

I worked for a PE shop. I had equity as part of our sign-on bonus that vested after 3 years. I was a member of the management team (VP), but not c-suite, and was paid pretty well, but the real money was in the equity. It was potentially serious money.

I began to see a pattern of people, largely those with potential equity, getting fired before they hit 3 years. I was worried, despite what I was told was very good job performance. I began taking lunches/happy hours as I hit 2.5 years out of paranoia, to make sure I had options.

Sure enough, me and 3 colleagues let go week of Christmas - just months before vesting. They gave us 6 months severance, but it wasn't close to what that equity grant would've been. It was potentially life changing money.

I think they average like a 50% turnover rate every year for employees that receive equity grants that are still unvested. Only the vested senior team and the army of employees not getting equity remain. So obvious what they are doing and still do.

it was also a terrible job from a work/life balance perspective.