My company announced, via the Investor Relations portal, that after many years of sustained revenue growth…That the employees of the HQ are going to get on average a 30% raise. All other worldwide employees are getting nothing…To say nothing of the US branch being the most profitable branch. Capcom IR
TL/DR: Son is sick, I have to stay home with him today. Boss says that I need to come in on my next day off to “make up for the time”, when I don’t get salary…I’m on commission. Full story: I decided to take this past weekend off, for some extra family time and to just relax before busy season. Today I was supposed to be back in the office, but my toddler was up all night sick, and I decided to stay home with him rather than sending him to daycare (which would be super irresponsible). Let my boss know, and his first words were: “I’ll need you to come in on your day off to make up for the time” I said: “Sorry, I have plans, but we can work something else out if it’s that important” Boss: “This is really disheartening for the team, and to say…
They are contributing to increase in CO2 emission by creating additional traffic, wasting electricity and gas by forcing people to work in office rather then home. If they could run their company with employees working remotely in the las t 2 years, they should continue to do so. If not they should be hit with a large tax to offset the extra emission, extra fuel used, extra electricity used etc.
Sometime back in 2016 at BigTechCorp (thousands of employees) the HR team decides to freeze salary band scales, and that makes their yearly budget much nicer for the coming few years. They got kudos from the head honchos and board for slashing costs year on year, driving up those profit margins. They were even paraded on the quarterly all hands for their outstanding contribution to the business. For years, everyone got very modest raises, literally just around inflation. Year on year, a company known for paying top end of market rates and getting the best talent starts to become middle of the road market rates/mid talent and heading toward bottom market rates/bottom of the barrel talent.. The comes covid, the great registration and the explosion in tech salaries. The company was hemorrhaging staff and the new talent coming through the door did not want to work for less than market…
On the one hand I make better money than most. 700 a week after taxes. However its just not fucking worth it. I work in information technology. The job Im doing is easily made for 3-5 people. Ironically I was in this same position years ago and could easily handle. Why? Because I had permissions/access to everything. Instead this place wont let me: Automate deployment of software. MSI files etc. Wants me to work on machines like chemistry analyzers. Which Im not qualified to work on. Throws me a non stop wave of non-IT problems. Their last admin set THE whole place up wrong. Literally cleaning up his mess while being told how great he was. The dude was a literal fuck up. I have two desks above mine in terms of permissions, they wont give me access to things like Powershell. I cant access regedit and their solution is…
Good morning Ladies and Gents. Today I'm offering you a bit of a different side to Anti-Work. Yesterday I was notified that my supervisor was involved in an accident and today he was pronounced dead. I am grieving. He was an amazing person that saw the best in people. He gave me a chance at a job that I was not qualified for and became what some would call a mentor. Last week we were discussing our plans for fathers day month and how he was planning a trip. I am planning a trip as well to see my father. He was telling me last Thursday how excited he was to retire in a couple years and how he wanted to go on a fishing charter, play some golf and catch up in the yard. He didn't make it to retirement. This specific circumstance kind of shifted my thoughts on…
If I get a decent work life balance and a good pay – I would be willing to make overtime – even work on weekends (sometimes) and be loyal to the company. I imagine this was the rule when boomers were in the workforce. Got a job without an HS diploma – overtime was paid 2x or 3x – not to much stress – and the company valued the worker. If I had it as easy as a boomer I owuld actually even perhaps enjoy work. But as it is now? No way. You have multiple degrees and are treated like trash, the stress is unbearable and your contribution is not valued anymore. Dont blame me if i dont want to work then!