Month: May 2022

TLDR: overworked and underpaid employee secured a new job paying $30K more a year! I never thought this day would come. I was only 20 when I started this job. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, but I quickly became the go-to person in my department for EVERYTHING. Over the years, I’ve been overworked, underpaid, and so many promises were made about raises and promotions that never came to fruition. Within the last 3 years, I’ve gotten some certifications and increased my knowledge, confidence and performance in my role (all things they said I should do if I wanted to be considered for higher pay rate). Still nothing to show for it. I told myself this year that if they didn’t give me a significant increase during my performance review, then I’d start searching for a new job. Well, they hit me with $5,000 more annually, which…

Here lately we've been doing bid jobs and myself and my coworker have been knocking them out in crazy good time. On a bid job they account for x amount of hours and no matter what thats what it costs. Well my coworker and I are very experienced and can usually do 16 hours of bid work in about 4 but we work really fucking hard to do so. Its 100 degrees so we usually work hard for 15 mins and take 15 min breaks. Today we really could have had our two day job done in 6 hours. We take our time and run out the clock and dick around take a nice lunch. Usually we don't even get to take lunch but we get it taken out of our check. If we finish early we are forced to go home but the company charged for 16 hours or…

I don't know why people keep perpetuating this myth. Maybe it is because toxic positivity and the idea that everyone is great and has a bright future has been normalized. Either way, it makes no sense why people think employers don't care about what college you went to. If you have two applicants, one who went to MIT and the other who went to a tiny college you never heard of, which one would you pick? You would be insane to not pick the one who went to MIT. Before you go and say the kid from the school no one has heard of may have better internships or projects, keep in mind that it is way easier to get those things at a prestigious school. It is also way easier to make connections at a prestigious schools when you aren't competing against tens of thousands of students like at…