Month: March 2022

I applied to an internal position in my company. It was a lot more responsibilities and graded significantly higher than my current role. After a 5 month long grueling process during which the woman who was leaving even started her handover to me, they offered me the role. At the same grade, at the same salary. I politely asked a few times if it could be revised, and made a business case for it (experience, time in current role/grade, extent of role expansion etc) but to no avail. I rejected their offer and decided to stay in current role while I look for another job. Today I found out they're getting someone externally who has lesser experience than me (and obviously no experience of internal processes) at 1.5 times my pay and a higher grade. Why do companies do this?

Well, I just got fired because some HR lady (witch) got beef with me for A: not accepting that A manager commanded me to pick up my private phone to discuss covid information I already knew while I was driving home to go in quarantaine (my colleague had covid). I told him to be calm and I'll call him back in 10 minuten when I got home, as a reply I got 'no,now!'. As I am not a dog I will not accept this behaviour. We got a talk about it with HR, and for them the situation was done after the manager said that I didn't understand him correctly, which isn't the same as saying you're sorry. The second beef : B is because of a external screening company who started calling and mailing me 5x a day for the same documents that I already send them, after a…

I'm mostly here to learn about other folks' struggles and learn from them, but ended up with my own tale. I'm doing snow/ice clearing with trucks & loaders, and been with this company for the last two winters. For those unfamiliar, this means pushing snow from one spot to another spot that's more out of the way, or dropping an entire McDonald's worth of salt on the ground to melt snow & ice. The company itself is decent, mostly just the usual growing pains, bureaucracy, and occasional lack of communication you see everywhere, but that's a separate tragedy. Coincidentally, it's also very difficult to find and then retain reliable staff for snow clearing, but that's a separate tragedy. I started out with a ~30 minute commute, but I moved farther away for ReasonsTM. Was going to work for a closer company, but they offered a 10% raise and 25% higher…

so i work for a pretty large product based company. i mean we are a pretty well known household brand. part of our company is ran in a certain business segment. very few people. i mean myself and this other coworker basically run the whole thing. there are a bunch of people they hire under us. not the most skilled but that’s because they want to pay them dirt well we have been on the brink of some shit blowing up. neither of us are able to take vacation because this part of the business can’t operate without us. i hate it here. it’s been 4 years of at least 50 hour work weeks. a couple of months back i started looking for jobs. i just got one and was getting ready to put in my 2 weeks. well my buddy who also is apparently the only Einstein with me,…

Looking at the posts on this sub I decided to ask a recruiter the salary range. To my surprise they gave me an estimation(the recruitor didn't know for sure because I wasn't considered for a specific post, at least not to my understanding, and they were going to decide after the technical interview if I am a good fit for any open position) based on my level of experience and other salaries in the company. The range was a lot higher than I expected, higher than I would have had the courage to ask for if I were to be the first to give a salary range. I had a friend try the same thing and they didn't give her an estimation in text. They told her they will discuss that when they will have the final interview(which is usually after the technical interview).

My boss was quit his job last week for a new opportunity after spending 5 years at our company which in the startup life is a long time . Keep in mind he’s gotten only a few raises and promotions along the way. Found a new job with the title and pay he wanted. My company didn’t even bother to mention him putting in his notice, they merely swept it under the rug. 5 years of not having the funding for more employees, 5 years of countless of hours of unpaid OT, 5 years of dealing with constant leadership changes. Not even a fucking mass email. I’ve gone through 4 jobs over the last three years ( I worked for a lot of startups that failed) and I’ve leveled up my pay at each stop by about 15k. I can’t imagine all the money he left on the table over…

I'm literally a Former Chick-Fil-A Worker since I walked into work back in February looking for my usual assignment which is putting things into bins “what the bin thing is known for is to put kids toys and salad dressings in their bags and placing them into their bins”, found them behind the kiddie slides and couldn't get them out “since they were out of reach”. So I'm like “Okay, I'll go get the bins up front” and I walked out of the kids playroom and as I was turning right to get to the counter that I was stopped by one of the managers and she told me in quote “We're gonna move you up front because you're using your phone too much” and I kind of got uptight over it and was also told that they're gonna keep a “watchful eye” in making sure that I'm not using…

It's like that sound on TikTok where she's like “Freddy, you're supposed to be on lockdown!” And Freddy just starts fake crying. Comparing yourself to Jeff Bezos like you wouldn't be the same devil if you owned Amazon or that you're closer to the bottom than you are the top is a flimsy excuse for profiting from exploitation. If you have $1M+ and you aren't using it to help the proletariat seize the means of production, then you are the enemy, end of story.

To the people still working for minimum wage or under $10 an hour, is unemployment benefits not higher? I’d think at some point the companies offering minimum wage would go bankrupt. But that doesn’t seem to happen. Those employers just complain nobody wants to work, but somehow they stay in business? I know it’s not as easy as it sounds, but if I was under $10 an hour I’d immediately quit and would hope all my coworkers do too