Month: April 2022
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Interesting Job offer
This company reaches out to me last March, say they want to interview for an overseas position. 1st interview goes great says they will be in touch. Mid august recruiter calls in a hurry says there’s a position for me an I willing to move to Arizona from Florida, doesn’t give any info on position or pay. Rushes me to give an answer. Spends 3 days randomly calling me asking 2-3 questions and hangs up. Hear from them again in Feb that they want the president of company to interview me I wait two hours in meeting lobby no one shows. Recruiter calls me again rushing me asking for availability for another call. We agree to next day 6 pm, president doesn’t show up some pm does and doesn’t even know what position. Take another interview this time with another pm also doesn’t know position or title. Week later 8pm…
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Coworkers pay
So I started at a job 4 months ago making 21/hour. I found out that a few of my coworkers who have been here for OVER 10 YEARS are making less than me. (18/ hour to be exact) anddd they know a lot more than I do obviously. We’re extremely understaffed and I’m assuming that’s why they gave me what they did. I have to tell them because that’s just not fair. But I don’t want my pay to be affected and don’t want everyone to hate me. Any suggestions appreciated
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I feel guilty for my salary
I have a confession, I feel guilty for the salary that I make in my current line of work. I’m not rich by any means but I make a decent enough salary to not want for much. The reason I feel guilty is because I feel like the work I do could be done by most moderately intelligent people and it’s not very taxing at all. I don’t have to be very physically active during my work hours, I can take my time to work through my projects, and the biggest kicker is that I have 0 customers to interact with. Hell, even some days I downright enjoy my job. I honestly feel like the people that should be earning my kind of salary are the ones that bust their ass every day at a customer facing job and have to put on a fake smile every day just so…
So lately I’ve seen some people return-to-office celebrating being back with others. I also saw someone say they’re waiting for more people to return and “get their act together” and come in. It’s cool that some people are enjoying being back, and I’m happy they’re happy. At the same time, it’s not wrong to enjoy or prefer remote work. Just because people don’t return-to-office doesn’t mean they don’t have ‘their act together’. What does that even mean? I find this view really insensitive and saddening. There’s so many reasons and benefits for working at home…it saves money, time, etc. It’s also saving me a lot of energy dealing with a disability. I am so grateful to be able to do remote work, I love the balance. I feel sad that this view point I saw is not being considerate of the many people and life circumstances that prefer WFH. Just…
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Salary transparency on the radio
On a Montreal radio show (in French, unfortunately for those who don't understand it), there was an interesting debate about salary transparency. A psychologist and teacher argued that it was necessary to have such transparency, not only in numbers but also in knowing who has which salary and why (experience, formation, etc.), for two purposes. First, to reduce negative speculation about coworkers. How much do they make? How do I compare? These questions could foster feelings of jealousy and unfairness. These feelings would lower performance and efficiency in the workplace, but more importantly general happiness. According to the World Happiness report, injustice and corruption (including lack of salary transparency) decrease general happiness. Second, to force compagnies to be fairer. With objective criterion, compagnies will be held liable, by the people, for their unfairness towards salary. If they have a good reason for their salary disparities, why hide them?…
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Stretch Assignment
Had my annual review today. I've been in this role for 4+ years and on this pay scale for even longer. I've met all my objectives yet again, tbh I could do this job with my eyes shut and I'm reasonably well paid. When I expressed my disappointment at the lack of opportunities for progression my manager suggested I “seek out a stretch assignment”. What that means is more responsibility for no extra money, GTF. When I moved into this role I took over from someone who was paid more than me, if anything it's already a stretch assignment! Honestly I'd leave, but the money considering my lack of responsibility is like crack. Just venting.
