Month: July 2022

forgive my grammar as I'm on mobile. I don't often post unless I've got some mental rant going on and I'm looking to the community for advice haha. anyways this week has had a heat advisory in a Pacific northwest. specifically Portland. we do tree work. we are arborists. and this time last year we're all pretty happy with the company we were working for and things seemed good. relationships were good. boss had promised us merit-based bonuses in a formal morning meeting. except then Christmas came around and no one got anything. well haha unless you were born with the right parts. if you know what I'm saying. anyways that's not what I'm talking about right now. here we are in the present and we are getting fed up with always doing so much work. we get the jobs for the day done and he just wants to add…

You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. James 5:4, New Testament

I see so many texts here between employees and management where the employee is constantly apologizing under the pressure of management for time off work, call outs or otherwise. STOP it. If you feel like you have to apologize, do it once and hold firm. You have needs and rights as a human being and doing your managers’ job of finding coverage isn’t one of them. Let them struggle; they need to learn.

I've worked at this new job for roughly 5 months because it was a $6 pay increase from my last job. It looked great on paper: 401k matching, paid lunches, flexible schedule. Yeah that 401k matching? 10% of 15% of your base salary. Yep, that's 1.5% matching, or roughly $600 annually if you contribute the full 15%. Paid lunches? Those are on duty lunches. Oh and here's the best part, the flexible schedule. Management requires 1 month notice of all time off requests. I had submit time off for the second week of August in June (2 months notice). Hadn't heard anything back from mgmt regarding approval/denial. Phone call last week and she says “Well I'm not sure about the schedule for then. If you don't hear from me by that day just assume it's been denied.” Not to mention: no PTO, vacation, or sick pay; employees being asked to…

My job is mad stressful and i'm underpaid. Now I have to work even harder to pick up the pieces of a reduce workforce.

But how does one live when they don't make money… I mean even living out of a car cost money. just a curious guy